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Amazon’s decision to ban ads for my book was well-intentioned but misguided.

Daniel Spence used dating apps to scam his way across the US. Could he be caught before taking over one of Brooklyn’s hottest media companies?

Anthony Carrigan discusses his beloved oddball “Barry” character, NoHo Hank, and the gamble he took that changed his career.

Recently, I’ve been spending my time having far too much fun with something a friend introduced to me, which we call Screenshot Roulette. It is, in its simplest explanation, discovering and looking at (remarkably) random screenshots that were uploaded to a thing called CloudApp.

If Goop and The Wing had a tiny Nordic baby, it might look like SuperShe Island off the coast of Finland, where women seek Namaste for $5,000 per week — and happiness is served one bowl of bone broth at a time.

Never has our tortured connection with Ethan Hawke been so apparent than these past two weeks, when we relived our labored 30-year-relationship with the actor in a scant 48 hours.

The film didn’t exactly redefine the genre like “Animal House” or speak to a generation like “Superbad,” but it did serve a very important purpose: it cemented Cruise’s comeback.

How much would you pay to sleep better?

“A Power Rangers movie? Now? Like, why? Who wants this? Who asked for this?”

Whether because of work stress, a crying baby, or some other late-night disturbance, we are sometimes forced to function on 4–5 hours of sleep (or less). Here’s how to make it less awful.

Observer publisher Jared Kushner responds to open letter written by one of his employees, calling out his father-in-law — Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump — for an anti-semitic tweet.

Donald Trump is currently under fire for a tweet with anti-Semitic undertones. Dana Schwartz is Jewish and a writer at The Observer — which is owned by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. On Tuesday she wrote an open-letter to Kushner.

After a writer move to the upper east side of Manhattan, she began to hear rumors about “the pussy whisperer,” a female trainer who had erotic encounters with her clients. Not one to say no to a good tip, she dug deeper.

The Nahmad family has been proven to be owners of a stolen painting through an offshore company.

What the blues can teach you about life, art, and everything in-between.

When you begin to create, start a business, write a blog, or generally do interesting stuff a funny thing happens: lots of people want to have coffee with you. Most of the time it’s a bad idea.

He was named the most reblogged 2016 candidate and the number two overall politician discussed this year on Tumblr, second only to current President Barack Obama.

It was the Saturday before Labor Day. I was strolling through the suburbs, en route to a BBQ. The day, and the summer, were ending, but the soft, late afternoon light imbued the picket fences and basketball hoops with the idyllic charm of a Nancy Meyers movie. Normally a staunch defender of the virtues of […]

Led by puzzle wunderkind Caleb Madison, a new generation of crossword constructors is pushing the boundaries of the word grid.

The mysterious mass death of 140,000 critically endangered antelope in Kazakhstan has puzzled researchers since May. Now scientists think they’ve found the culprit.