1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (572+ words) On the Friday before Mother's Day, LaMonica McIver, a first-term Democratic congresswoman from New Jersey, spent the morning handing out roses in the maternity ward of a hospital in Newark. Her next stop, a visit to Delaney Hall, a federal…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (1361+ words) The Japanese chef Junya Yamasaki, of Yess, mastered ike jime and shinkei jime, butchery techniques that result in tastier seafood'and he's taught some Southern California fishermen how to do them, too. Hannah Goldfield reports. The method is considered significantly more…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (114+ words) Discover the year's essential reads in fiction and nonfiction. Something of the ruggedness of the granite and marble has entered into the veins of the people of Vermont. They do their own thinking; they make their own decisions; they stand…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (79+ words) At the Met, the Finnish artist's spare, melancholic work has the strange effect of jolting your senses. After a London teen mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his parents discovered that he'd been posing as an oligarch's son. What happens when…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (229+ words) Strong's character has an Obama-like idealism, some Newsom-esque ambition, and a Trumpian narcissism, but he didn't model him on any real politician. "You look at all these people who are running the world, it's a bunch of fucking weirdos," he…...

6+ hour, 56+ min ago   (164+ words) (Still more advice from the internet.) Dear Xander and Mariluisa, Hey, "Derek," Xander here. Ever think about upgrading from Costco to Nordstrom? Could make all the difference. I'm wearing mine right now. Dear Xander & Mariluisa, Mariluisa writing: Hi, Larissa, I…...

6+ hour, 56+ min ago   (259+ words) in spite of love, the history of is or is not. Toward dread,darkness though dawn could be my guess, snow morphingto hardship, delight, mindless over and over. You forget but I forgot so long ago. What does a single…...

6+ hour, 56+ min ago   (69+ words) I am a Tinder guy holding a fish and I will provide for you. I thought I would accomplish a lot more today and also by the time I was thirty-five. Circumstances in which I will not pet your dog....

6+ hour, 56+ min ago   (86+ words) Scavengers," by Kathleen Boland; Some Bright Nowhere," by Ann Packer; Atlas's Bones," by D. Vance Smith; and Everything Is Photograph," by Patricia Albers. After a London teen mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his parents discovered that he'd been posing as an…...

6+ hour, 56+ min ago   (183+ words) This is nota good year.But it haswitnesses. When you see them protest the powerful,since who else does,they standlike flagpoles outside the courthouseafter a northeaster. They are your legionof bent spoons.They are the only oneswho showed up'with…...