Watch John Kerry Blast Donald Trump: “He’s Got the Maturity of an 8-Year-Old Boy”
Julien Mattia/NurPhoto/Sipa USA/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. John Kerry wasted no time excoriating President Trump in an appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night. “He’s the first president that I know of who spends more time reading his Twitter ‘likes’ than his briefing books or…
His Childhood Was Horrific, so David Small Became an Award-Winning Children’s Book Author
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russell, the protagonist of “Home After Dark.” David Small, courtesy of W.W. NortonDavid Small has written or illustrated more than three dozen children’s picture books, but his 2009 graphic memoir, Stitches, a National Book Award finalist, isn’t so appropriate for the young’uns. In cinematic style,…
Gary Shteyngart Wants You to Invest in His Hedge Fund
Brigitte Lacombe Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Boy meets girl. Boy had messed-up boyhood and is weird and sort of delusional. Boy became hedge fund manager, very rich. Boy (white, 40s, Princeton) marries girl (child of Indian immigrants, way younger, Yale Law). Girl gives up career. Boy and girl have…
Why a Leading Trump Critic Wrote a Book about a Mansion in Europe
Norm Eisen meets Václav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic, in October 2011.Forum 2000 Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Norm Eisen is best known these days as one of the leading critics of President Donald Trump. He chairs the board of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a.k.a.…
The Hairy, Sweaty, Stinky Truth About Why We Hate Our Bodies
Mara Altman Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “I am a bearded lady,” writer Mara Altman confesses in her new illustrated essay collection Gross Anatomy: Dispatches From the Front (and Back). That may elicit snickers, but Altman’s aim is to upend stigmas around our bodily realities: “It is my hope that by…
This Exceptional Novel Was Pecked Out on a Prison Typewriter by an Iraq Veteran Turned Bank Robber
A Medevac crew near Tikrit, Iraq, November 2005.Jacob Silberberg/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The author page reads simply, “Nico Walker lives in Kentucky. Cherry is his first novel.” Walker, 33, wanted it that way. What the bio doesn’t say is that his Kentucky abode is a federal prison. Or…