Michael Robbins on the Challenges and Charms of Poetry

How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out.

Since leaving “Top Chef,” Lakshmi has found herself in a period of professional uncertainty. What better time to try standup comedy?

My month of vermouth-rinsing and fat-washing.

At his criminal trial, the ex-President has to sit there while potential jurors, prosecutors, the judge, witnesses, and even his own lawyers talk about him as a defective, impossible person.