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Last year, Charli XCX lit a neon-green fire under the pop world with Brat -- a brash, chaotic album that redefined what pop could sound like in 2024. The summer became dominated by the British si ...

Middle-age metabolism. If there is a more ferocious and vindictive beast that can be encountered in the autumn of life, I pray I never encounter it. The cruel markers of bodily decline in the infancy ...

David Gergen was the right kind of fellow. Born in 1942 in Durham, North Carolina, his father chaired the mathematics department at Duke University, and served as director of a research office affilia ...

Paterson, New Jersey, 1979: Jamie Palmieri is an up-and-coming patrol officer, three years out of the academy and frustrated with his slow rise to detective. That all changes one frigid night in Janua ...

In 1985 - when I was 7 - the young kids in my neighborhood had a "swear club." To join, the initiate had to hide behind a tree with the assembled members and say every swear wo ...

Akari was on the couch, scrolling Instagram. Her body was small, but she was very toned and lean from yoga and pilates classes, so she appeared longer than she was. And though her eyes were cast down,

It's 1973 and Mona Glass is a 24-year-old amateur tennis star in a long-running affair with Saul Plotz, her former college professor. Her parents like Saul and desperately want the free-spirited Mona ...

Somewhere on the southern edge of Greece, on the island of Rhodes, a tall man with a sunburned face and a body as if sculpted by centuries of salt and wind stood at the helm of a little, ridiculous-lo ...

This piece contains spoilers on 'The Last of Us' HBO's The Last of Us is best known for its aggressive foray into the culture war, but beneath its surface-level agenda the show is an occasionall ...

During the height of the pandemic, the Spanish priest Julian Carron published a book posing the simple yet loaded question: "Is there hope?" "The pandemic," he posited, offered ...