What if Annie Wilkes had the internet? Annie, of course, is the antagonist of Stephen King's Misery , a pre-web story about the dark side of the relationship between fan and creator. When Annie finds novelist Paul Sheldon - the author of her favorite romance series, about a woman named Misery…

If you watch his performances on YouTube, or ever get the chance to see him performing in person, you’d think Florida-based producer DiViNCi started out performing, as his entire approach to music seems to come from that high energy performance angle. However, like most beat makers, it all started…

Watching the excellent documentary “ Ebola in America: Epidemic of Fear ” is to relive the confusion and controversies of the summer of 2014: the initial public health mistakes, the divided and unclear responsibilities, the hysterical coverage on cable TV. But it is the political role played by…

Getty Images You may have heard that we’ll be holding a presidential election in November. Perhaps you’re familiar with the candidates. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former first lady, senator, and secretary of state, is on the verge of becoming the first woman to win a major party’s nomination for…

A wave of prominent Republicans have announced their intention to skip the party’s national convention in Cleveland this summer, the latest sign that Donald J. Trump, who last week secured the delegates needed to clinch the Republican presidential nomination , continues to struggle in his effort to…

IT’S one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same: We marry the wrong person. Partly, it’s because we have a bewildering array of problems that emerge when we try to get close to others. We seem normal only to those who…

Trimmed integral Polaroid, ca. 1991. (Salford Local History Library Collection) Peter Buse, the head of the School of Performance and Screen Studies at Kingston University in London, has previously written on such non-kitschy topics as the influential poststructuralist journal Tel Quel and The…

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in Miami on March 15. (Paul Sancya/Associated Press) For those of us with a certain political bent and background, this is the most depressing moment of all. The best of the GOP — Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan, the intellectually serious reformicons who have called attention to…

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Credit: By Matt Carr/Getty Images. Samantha Bee and Jason Jones gave their seven-year-old son a speaking part in the second episode of their new show, The Detour, premiering April 11 on TBS. “He was beyond bored,” Bee recalls. “And he was hot. He was not impressed in the least with what we do and…

Supporters of Donald J. Trump at a fund-raiser in Lawrenceville, N.J., on Thursday. Eric Thayer for The New York Times It has been a cold spring for the forces militating against a Donald J. Trump presidency. The closer the real estate mogul draws to the Republican Party nomination, the fewer the…

Paul Burton, a retired British commando, was in Washington, D.C., recently to brief a group of journalists on how they might survive a week in Cleveland. “Don’t wear black,” he said. “You don’t want to look like one of those anarchist photographers.” Burton took part in the invasion of the Falkland…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is squandering its technology budget maintaining museum-ready computer systems in critical areas from nuclear weapons to Social Security. They're still using floppy disks at the Pentagon. In a report released Wednesday, nonpartisan congressional investigators found…

Regular readers of this blog will have seen me reference “Arcade Raids” in previous articles. This might create images in your head of hooded gangs of arcade collectors breaking into warehouses in the middle of the night to stealth-steal a stash of classic arcade cabs. As exciting as that would be,…

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…and what Dutch treasures did they discover here? We asked expats from Italy, Sweden, Poland, Russia and US to share their observations. Get ready to be surprised! Anthony (US) hospitality industry professional // moved to the Netherlands 4 weeks ago // experienced living in Amsterdam I’m from…

Brent White in the editing room in Burbank, Calif., where he worked on the Paul Feig movie “Spy,” starring Melissa McCarthy. Credit Damon Casarez for The New York Times Melissa McCarthy, her hands tied behind her back, writhed on the dingy basement floor of an abandoned power plant in Budapest —…

There’s no mistaking the misery, throughout “X-Men: Apocalypse,” on Michael Fassbender’s handsome face. Photograph Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox ­ The definition of “apocalypse,” in Merriam-Webster, goes as follows: “A great disaster: a sudden and very bad event that causes much fear, loss or…

Summer is upon us, and we are facing important travel decisions. Such as who to blame when we get stuck in interminable airport lines. So many options. There’s the government, but how many times can you can complain about Congress in the course of a lifetime? There’s the public — air traffic up 12…

SAN FRANCISCO — After the news that one of Silicon Valley’s stars secretly funded a lawsuit to bring down a gossip site, the overwhelming response in the tech community has been: More power to him. Peter Thiel — Facebook investor, PayPal co-founder and a billionaire with a highly developed instinct…

How one little graphic became shared and adapted by millions Click here for a high-res download of this image. Last week, an online friend of mine sent me a private message via Google+: The Facebook post my friend sent me showing how far my original graphic had been adapted. My jaw hit the…

A billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur was outed as being gay by a media organization. His friends suffered at the hands of the same gossip site. Nearly a decade later, the entrepreneur secretly financed a lawsuit to try to put the media company out of business. That is the back story to a legal…

Getty Images Funding Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker? That’s not cool. Actively going out to find potential plaintiffs who might have cases against Gawker and then giving them the money to bring those cases? Even that’s not cool. You know what’s cool? Reinventing the concept of philanthropy so…

I keep seeing it. Across the USA by Train for Just $213 . Every so often, the picture and title will roll through my Facebook feed as a friend shares it or a friend likes that another friend has liked it. Then come the tags as people rush to inform their friends that they simply have to do this.…

Even though every caution label and trigger warning screamed at me not to, and even though I knew what would happen to my head and my stomach if I did, I watched the video of the Jordanian pilot being burned alive by ISIS militants . (The video is not linked there, by the way.) In another iteration…

Chewy wanted some weed. This was before the viral music video, before the record deal, before the world fame under the stage name Bobby Shmurda, and before the indictment that has waylaid his rap career, possibly forever. On the evening of November 5, 2013, he was still just Chewy, his childhood…

Illustration by Allan Sanders The remote-controlled “monster” jackhammer. The chloroform pillow. The mummy-reviver. The medicine cabinet that, when you open it, shoots a vitamin “bullet” into your mouth. The fast-growing strangle vine. The invigorating face-slapper. The mechanical insect that can…

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O n a spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid’s blue Huffy bicycle and a silver Razor scooter. Borden and a friend grabbed the bike and scooter and tried to ride them down the street in the Fort Lauderdale suburb…

Stephanie, a 24-year-old living in New York City, went over to a friend’s apartment one recent night for a laid-back night of watching Master of Non e on Netflix. When she got there, the friend offered her some wine, and they spent a few hours catching up. But on her way out the door, Stephanie was…

Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker Late last year, Russian newspapers reported what would have qualified as a stunning piece of news almost anywhere else: The chairman of the country’s largest parliamentary body had been exposed as a plagiarist. Sergei Naryshkin, the former chief of staff in…

A month ago, Hillary Clinton had a big lead in national and battleground state polls. Today, she has a modest lead at best. A few surveys even show Donald Trump ahead. What happened? Mr. Trump has made gains in unifying his party’s base, while Mrs. Clinton has not done the same with hers. If…

This June, it will have been seven years since the official end of the “Great Recession,” which began in December 2007. Pundits and politicians continue to laud what US president Barack Obama called in February “the strongest, most durable economy in the world,” boasting of soaring stock prices and…

Photograph by Spencer Platt / Getty Two weeks ago, Anita Hill, following an address that she delivered to a packed auditorium at the University of Connecticut, was asked how it made her feel to know that, despite her testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Clarence Thomas had sexually…

Omar Bustamante/FUSION When Nicholas Herring's landlord informed him that he was being evicted so that his apartment could be converted into a full-time Airbnb rental, he was distressed but unsurprised. This is the way of things in Reykjavik now. Herring’s story is not uncommon. If you want an…

Here is something else that former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin can ponder as he sits in a federal facility at the edge of the Texas-Arkansas border, serving out the last seven years of a 10-year sentence for corruption: The feds didn't go looking for the evidence that set in motion his downfall. It…

Illustration: Greg Kletsel In Hollywood, the tweets and email alerts from industry trades trumpeting the announcements of superstar actors and showrunners attached to flashy TV projects roll out with almost numbing regularity now: Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange team up for FX, Amy Adams heads to…

The latest polls seem to signal that this historically weird race may be turning into an ordinary one, in which the parties matter more than the candidates. Photograph by Melina Mara / The Washington Post via Getty Here is a rough recent accounting of the relationship between Donald Trump and the…

Photo: Vincent Sandoval All internet campaigns to get an actor cast in a famous movie role are worthless. The egomaniacs running Hollywood studios don’t care about hashtags. But over the weekend something strange happened. James Bond fans searching for someone to replace Daniel Craig — the most…

Ayahuasca preperation. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Increasingly over the past decade, Westerners have flocked to the Amazon for a taste of the region's most notorious elixir: ayahuasca. In the jungle, the plant mixture is the "vine of the soul" or the "vine of the dead," depending on who you ask. In…