Know Your Procrastination Style

August 7, 2020

Shouts & Murmurs

Swipe right to meet Fitness Fred, Fragile-Ego Fergus, and other charming chaps who don’t have time for you and can never really be reached.

By Lily Feinn and Marian Blair

Shouts & Murmurs

If we’re ever going to heal this nation, we need to start having uncomfortable conversations about why I burn things.

By Evan Waite

Video

Emily Flake discusses how having a child changed how she illustrates kids, and pokes fun at her pre-motherhood drawings.

Magazine

The musicians possess a powerful collective personality, creating an organic mass of sound.

By Alex Ross

Annals of Medicine

Why does hepatitis B, which can lead to liver cancer, often go undetected, even though tests exist?

By Ingfei Chen

Culture

In an otherwise bleak year for television, a few truly great entries shone all the more brightly.

By Inkoo Kang

Comic Strip

Traverse the morass of traffic, the sea of awkwardness, and the soup course to win the game.

By Liana Finck

Cover Story

Take a closer look at the cover of the annual Cartoons & Puzzles Issue.

By Françoise Mouly

Culture

Health insurers and hospitals increasingly treat patients less as humans in need of care than consumers who generate profit.

By Dhruv Khullar

Laugh Lines

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

By The New Yorker

Humor

Movies are scored by Hans Zimmer. Films are scored by someone who has said, at least once, “I don’t feel challenged by Hans Zimmer’s work.”

By Grace Henes

Culture

A suggestive tennis match, a manic “Hot Ones” interview, and other amusing moments in an often surreal year.

By Ian Crouch