Humor & Cartoons
Shouts & Murmurs
Cillian Murphy’s Bedtime Routine
5 P.M.: Call ’round to the pub and dine on a hearty meal of potatoes, bangers, and the knowledge that you are Christopher Nolan’s favorite.
By Wendi Aarons and Johanna Gohmann
Shouts & Murmurs
“The Real Housewives of Roku City”
These ladies bring tons of drama and are no strangers to a TV screen.
By Emma Soren
Shouts & Murmurs
Signs You Should Give Up on a Book
You’re using the book to squash bugs; you’re waiting for the book to initiate physical contact; you can’t stop thinking about Gary Oldman movies.
By JiJi Lee
Shouts & Murmurs
The Clown Suit of Middle Age
We all have a beast inside us, right? Well, middle age takes that beast and makes it wear a clown suit. Everything in you that was fun is now foolish and gross.
By Emily Flake
Shouts & Murmurs
Beyond Mob Wife: The Next Wave of Aesthetic Trends
Gen Z Retiree: This is not a look—it’s a mind-set and life style, plus Crocs.
By Sara K. Runnels
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Comics
Sketchpad
Casting Call! “January 6th: The Movie”!
Who will play the QAnon Shaman? Can Gritty find a role?
By Barry Blitt
Sketchbook
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
Jamaica Kincaid’s alphabet of the colonized world, with illustrations by Kara Walker.
By Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker
Sketchpad
The Bodega as Chaotic Good, the Salad Joint as Neutral Evil
Christine Mi imagines a Dungeons & Dragons-style alignment system for New York storefronts.
By Christine Mi
Blitt’s Kvetchbook
Mitch McConnell, Out of His Shell
Celebrating the soon-to-be-former Senate Leader’s force of personality.
By Barry Blitt
Sportsball
Shouts & Murmurs
I Like Sports
My favorite thing about sports is that they give me an acceptable way to express my feelings in a patriarchal culture that views expressions of male emotion as weak.
By Ethan Kuperberg
Shouts & Murmurs
Fight-or-Flight Responses to Talking About Sports
An increased heart rate, pale or flushed skin, an intense desire to hide behind your phone when you realize that everyone else at the party actually likes sports.
By Ernio Hernandez and Patty Terhune
Shouts & Murmurs
Respectful Ways to Heckle Athletes
“Stop fouling all the time! Your phenomenal parents raised you never to lay your hands on other people in anger!”
By Talib Babb
Shouts & Murmurs
A Brief History of Sports
Three hundred thousand years ago, a group of advanced Homo sapiens was days away from discovering electricity and inventing history’s most complex language. Then Edgar threw a rock.
By Cara Michelle Smith
More Humor
Shouts & Murmurs
Films That Have Been Rewritten Now That Everyone Is Talking About Polyamory
“Lord of the Rings”: The four hobbits all move in together. No judgy hobbit can say anything, because they did save Middle-earth.
By Janet Manley and Sara C. Hahn
Shouts & Murmurs
The Affair with My Chair
If sitting is the new sex, it’s important to find the right partner.
By Alyssa Brandt
Shouts & Murmurs
Where One Tax Dollar Actually Goes
“Infrastructure” ($0.05): We’re unclear on the significance of the quotation marks, but we can all agree that it’s high time the U.S. railway system caught up to the twentieth century.
By Dennard Dayle
Shouts & Murmurs
Color Theory, Explained
If you don’t know much about color, it’s a good idea to just pick the second least expensive color on the menu.
By Adam Douglas Thompson
Shouts & Murmurs
Melanie Ann Donoghue and Wordle Wed
The bride worried, “Will people judge me for dating someone I met online, who’s only capable of communicating through letters that Times readers type onto a gridlike interface?”
By Cora Frazier
Shouts & Murmurs
Where Stars Keep Their Oscars
Anonymous Academy Award winners sound off on where in their homes, properties, or tax shelters they store the industry’s most prestigious object.
By Jen Spyra
Shouts & Murmurs
Practical Uses for Internet Negativity
You can rearrange favorite insults into one-of-a-kind baby names.
By Bea Hayward and Christina Yoseph
Shouts & Murmurs
Scenes from My Open-ish Marriage
My wife and I have an arrangement. I mean, I think we do. We also have an arrangement about the grocery shopping and the recycling (I do both).
By John Kenney
Shouts & Murmurs
What Blurbs Really Mean
“No one will care about this in a week.”
By Dana Maier and Gila Pfeffer
Shouts & Murmurs
How People with Dietary Restrictions See Menus
Vegan options: Mound of celery and carrots (no dip); the garnish parts of the charcuterie board.
By Emily Menez