Stephen Lynch defeated progressive challenger Patrick Roath in the Massachusetts 8th Congressional District Democratic primary despite clashes over ICE.
Richard Neal defeated progressive challenger Jeromie Whalen in the Massachusetts 1st Congressional District primary, but the seniority debate rages on.
In Season 2, Episode 6 of the Netflix series The Crown, titled “Vergangenheit,” Queen Elizabeth II confronts a devastating family secret. Historians have unearthed the Marburg Files — captured Nazi documents from 1945 that detail that her uncle, the Duke of Windsor (the former King Edward VIII), had extensive contacts with the Nazi high command […]
The other day, I mentioned to a new acquaintance my work as a TV critic for this magazine. I won’t elide the point: I was bragging. As sometimes happens, however, my boast spun around like a boomerang and knocked my teeth out. “There is much to criticize!” my friend replied with a laugh. That shut […]
Writer David Foster Wallace‘s doorstopper 1996 novel, Infinite Jest, has just been reissued in a 30th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner. Oddly, when reading that foreword, one has to wade through a good deal of discussion of its readership’s demographic before one reads anything about the text itself. The ratio of words […]
In his new novel Vigil, George Saunders puts us in the mind of an angel who crashes to earth for the purpose of comforting a dying sinner. Not just any sinner. Her “charge,” as she calls him throughout, is the kind of sinner some readers may think is least deserving of comfort. K.J. Boone, the […]
The imminent release of child molester David Allen Funston is a disgrace — for which Gavin Newsom and his party are responsible. Democratic presidential...
