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"Mowing the lawn, it's revealed, is not the torture / it once appeared as the loved one tore through // the yard in heated fury."

Fresh from selling out Madison Square Garden, the dark priest of the Swedish metal band talked about his childhood TV dreams while backstage at "The Tonight Show."

"You myserious cruel hand, / you cold dropped and not-yet-dropped rain."

The author of "Babel" and "Yellowface" is drawn to stories of striving. Her new fantasy novel, "Katabasis," asks if graduate school is a kind of hell.

Plotlines we'll never see: Carrie grapples with shoe tariffs, and Miranda moves into the sewers.

Everything's shot. Why not laugh about it?

Stelliform parts of some moles: five letters.

Donald Trump now has the Attorney General he always wanted--an ally willing to harness the law to enable his agenda.

Funny drawings from this week's magazine.

New Yorkers stuck their garbage in Staten Island for fifty-three years. As the landfill becomes a park, foxes, deer, and grasshopper sparrows are moving in again.