Paul is Lily’s gay best friend and closest romantic confidant. Grating portmanteaus are a crucial part of their relationship.

A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on December 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. The darkest moment of the Democratic defeat on November 5 must have been the ...

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From All Things Are Too Small, which will be published next month by Metropolitan Books. “All things / are too small,” begins a poem believed to be written by the thirteenth-century Dutch… ...

"The overall impression I came away with from the court decision was that Jarvis Jay Masters was considered a low-grade person who only deserved a low-grade trial. It’s certainly what he got." ...

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From publishers’ descriptions of audiobooks recorded by Edmund Kemper for The Blind Project. Kemper was convicted of murdering his grandmother, grandfather, mother, and seven other girls and women ...