Esther Cohen was removed as Greene county’s poet laureate just weeks after the appointment. It’s ‘emblematic of the assault on the arts writ large’, some say
In 1985, just before the poet Esther Cohen…
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Go Gentle by Maria Semple review – a joyfully clever New York romcom ⊕⊕⊕
A Stoic philosopher navigates midlife in this madcap comedy from the author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette
What would Marcus Aurelius have made of the Kardashians? Would Seneca have been amused by mind…
63 days ago
‘Coming out in the 90s? You might as well say ‘I love cock!’’ Nathan Lane on gay life, Broadway and defying stereotypes ○
The brassy actor’s performance in Death of a Salesman is the crown jewel in a life spent on stage. He says it could be his last Broadway role
“It’s, like, 10 minutes. I pee, I have a cup of tea, I put…
3 months ago
Why are British estate agents so weird online? | Emma Beddington ○
Even though my algorithm knows I’m a sucker for outlandish reality TV property shows, it’s now offering me less-than-glamorous copycats trying to flog a buy-to-let in Beaconsfield
I’m not proud to adm…
6 months ago
The kindness of strangers: a man I’d just met helped me land the job that changed my life ⊕⊕
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Because he’d gone to the trouble of setting it up, I went to the interview – even though I didn’t have a visa
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In the late 1980s, I was setting off on a bac…
7 months ago
Zohran Mamdani's biggest threat is not Donald Trump, it's the Democratic old guard | Emma Brockes ⊕
The New York mayor-elect sells a political message further to the left than any American politician has dared to in recent memory
The morning after Zohran Mamdani’s startling mayoral victory in New Yo…
14 months ago
Tensions bubble on elite college campus as students fume over Trump's free speech move ○
On the already tense Upper West Side campus, discomfort is simmering. After over a year of protests, the young students are incandescent with renewed rage.
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