Emily Flake, a New Yorker cartoonist, has published books including “Joke in a Box: How to Write and Draw Jokes.”
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Annals of Publishing
Fitzcarraldo Editions Makes Challenging Literature Chic
In ten years, the London publishing house has amassed devoted readers—and four writers with Nobel Prizes.
By Rebecca Mead
Daily Comment
This Is What the Twenty-fifth Amendment Was Designed For
If Joe Biden doesn’t willingly resign, there’s another solution, which would allow Democrats to unite around a new incumbent.
By Jeannie Suk Gersen
Fiction
“Kaho”
He may have been patiently waiting, for the longest time, for me to show up in front of him, she thought. Like an enormous spider waiting for its prey in the dark.
By Haruki Murakami
Annals of Celebrity
Kanye West Bought an Architectural Treasure—Then Gave It a Violent Remix
How the hip-hop star’s beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy turned a beach house in Malibu, designed by the Japanese master Tadao Ando, into a ruin.
By Ian Parker