Humor & Cartoons
Jorge Luis Borges and Nancy Meyers Pitch a Movie
The Heroine stares at the hole in her country mansion’s back yard and decides to call an architect for whom every brick is the abyss of memory.
- Daily Shouts
Catching Up with Sisyphus
A friendly visit with the hardest-working guy in the underworld.
- Shouts & Murmurs
Emily Post’s Post-Pandemic Etiquette
When a gentleman is engaged in conference with his business associates, he must always remember that, unlike on Zoom, there is no mute button for real life.
Cartoons from the Issue
The Latest
Kevin McCarthy Forced to Fly to Mar-a-Lago to Sit and Listen to Things Trump Would Have Posted on Facebook
McCarthy said that the repeated summons to Mar-a-Lago were “in no way” interfering with his ability to attend to his duties in Washington.
G.O.P. Claims Biden Is Artificially Inflating Job-Approval Rating By Displaying Competence
“Joe Biden is so desperate to have a high approval rating that he’s been using every day in office to deliver results to the American people,” Senator Ted Cruz said.
Customer Reviews of Mom: The V.R. Experience
A lot of it just doesn’t make sense. Why is Mom the only one who knows how the thermostat works? Or what the next-door neighbors’ names are?
Villainous “S.N.L.” Hosts We’re Excited to See Next
The Zodiac Killer, the guy knocking on the clearly locked public-restroom door, smallpox, and more.
My Pandemic vs. a Tech Billionaire’s Pandemic
Me: Waited eight hours to get vaccinated. Tech Billionaire: Waited eight hours to delete my tweets about AstraZeneca.
Daily Cartoon
Comics
Impossible Puzzles for People Under Sixty
Hope you don’t have anything else going on, because these puzzles will take over your life.
The Semi-Sadistic Seven-Minute Workout
These exercises will restore elasticity to your body, clarity to your mind, and buoyancy to your soul—whatever a soul might be.
Dealing with the Void, Distraction, and Yourself
Shaping your eyebrows, making a playlist for your plants, and other things to do that are most likely more fun than what you should be doing right now.
Video
Capturing the Awkwardness of Dating, in a Cartoon
The cartoonist Suerynn Lee on how to draw bad dates and how her improv background has taught her to create funny scenarios.