Humor & Cartoons
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Writers, Writers, Everywhere
The protagonist in every movie I’ve seen this month has been a struggling writer of some sort.
By Zoe Si
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Board Games for Liberals
Media Charades: Can you get your teammates to pay for the information they need to guess what’s going on?
By Ethan Kuperberg
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Anthropology of the Playground
Once you start visiting the playground daily, you will become familiar with the regulars.
By Liana Finck
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Recommendations from the Guy Who Works at Your Local Dispensary
Turpentine Gelato, Fiscal Daydream, and . . . what was the question again?
By David Machajewski and Will Santino
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Ideas for the New York City Officials Implementing Rat Birth Control
Encourage male rats to recount the plots of “Dune” and “Dune: Part Two” on first dates.
By Meg Richardson
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Fight or Flight?
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Comics
Blitt’s Kvetchbook
Up in Arms at Columbia University
Demonstrations and counter-demonstrations on campus and beyond.
By Barry Blitt
Sketchbook
A Millionth-Anniversary Surprise
When one has been married forever, one sometimes feels that there is nothing new one will ever discover about one’s person, however . . .
By Roz Chast
Sketchbook
Overheard in New York: Waiting for the Eclipse at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
“She’s a flat-earther.”
By Anjali Chandrashekar
Why Is Tonight Different?
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Four Questions—Extended Version
Why on this night does the mother-in-law say that the brisket her son’s wife cooked is dry when it is fine?
By Marika Sawyer, Simon Rich, and John Mulaney
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The Other Children of Passover
The child who found the afikomen before the time to look for it officially began, the influencer child, and the child who, if he could please sit down, we could get started.
By Amy Kurzweil, Jason Adam Katzenstein, and Ellis Rosen
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A Special Seder
I must recount the day, in 1864, when my parents invited President Lincoln to our home for Passover.
By Paul Rudnick
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A Few More Questions for This Seder
Why is it that, on this night, we have four cups of wine, when I feel like I need so many more?
By Susanna Wolff
More Humor
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How I Use the Internet, According to Nineties Action Movies
I pull up a digitized photo on the screen. Leaning in, I drag a bright-green box around a detail in the image, type rapidly for a full fifteen seconds, and then softly say, “Enhance.”
By James Folta
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Stories from the Trump Bible
And Jesus said to Pontius Pilate, “This trial is very unfair. You are a corrupt judge, and your wife is a very nasty woman.”
By Bruce Headlam and Stephen Sherrill
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U.F.C. Fighter on How to Protect Yourself from Being Swept Off Your Feet
The Eye Gouge: The eye gouge prevents love at first sight by ending their sight. This is why the Three Stooges never got laid.
By Evan Waite
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I Can’t Stop Calling the National Guard
I called the National Guard when I overbaked my brownies and my smoke alarm went off; I called the National Guard when I underbaked my brownies and I was worried they might make me sick.
By Charlie Dektar
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Old-Fashioned Know-How
Kids today! You ever fought a forest fire that you yourself started? You ever had thirteen kids by seventeen different women?
By Alexis Wilkinson
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Depressing! You Cumulatively Spend Three Days a Year Playing a Game You Enjoy
Just think about how many better ways you could be spending that time—like by doing something you hate.
By Eddie Small
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Beyond Country: Forthcoming Beyoncé Albums in Surprising Genres
A German synth-pop record: Notable tracks include “If I Were Ein Boy,” “All the Single Fräulein,” and “Hälo.”
By Skyler Higley and Mads Horwath
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What You’ve Been Missing in My Instagram’s “My Close Friends”
The photo of the weird spill on my jeans is exclusively for my Instagram close friends, sorry.
By Talib Babb
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Our Environmental Pledge
Because we are so dedicated to the future of this planet, our C-suite will no longer use the company’s private jets to drag-race in the sky.
By Megan Amram