Watermelons appear in grocery stores and in giant cardboard boxes outside markets at about the same time of the year…
“First Words,” the New York Times Magazine’s weekly language column, may be its best recurring front-of-book feature. This…
“It turns out that many people are terrible judges of how much shut-eye they get. That is especially true for those who have insomnia. Many people with insomnia think…
“In my mind, it is always ‘coming,’ ‘come,’ or ‘came,’ respectively, because I find the shorthand to be one of the worst slang terms available in the English language. It’s so…truncated. It’s squat. ‘Cum’ is for the men trying to get me to cyber with them on ICQ; it’s the…
“I tend to gravitate toward a genre of popular culture I’ve come to think of as emotional speculative fiction. It’s a…
★★★ Extra humidity rose from the hosed-down sidewalk. A white moped sped along to cut off an otherwise clear…
“An earlier version of this article misstated Modern Farmer’s new ‘it’ grain. It is sorghum, not quinoa.”
