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Upon the unsealing of a collection of T.S. Eliot's letters to his muse Emily Hale, the poet posthumously released a letter sharing his side of the story.

"Long Shot," starring Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen, was the best romantic comedy of 2019. Go watch it.

A new study suggests dogs can quickly estimate numerical values in a similar manner to humans and other primates.

Comedian Samantha Ruddy writes about sharing a bed with her ex, how much stronger their relationship has become and trying to figure out what they are now.

I never thought I'd be the kind of person to get married. Then I got older and realized I didn't need to feel fireworks or intense passion: just being comfortable was enough.

This year, I thought a lot about the installment of The Cut's "I Think About This A Lot" series about Robert Pattinson lying to Matt Lauer about having seen a clown die in a clown car explosion at the circus when he was a child. That's it, that's the whole story of this piece. But as writer Dana Schwartz points out, there are no casualties as a result of Pattinson's lie: it is nothing more than a baffling (and darkly sort of hilarious) thing to have lied about. "All Pattinson really did was trivialize being interviewed by Matt Lauer," Schwartz writes, which is true — but the fact that Pattinson told the lie not as a troll but in a moment of genuine flusteredness is so human as to have endeared Pattinson to me as a celebrity and simply as a person, capable of both sublime acting (see: The Lighthouse) and of putting his foot wholly in his mouth. Who among us, indeed? — Molly Bradley

Sarah Miller describes what it felt like to lose her beloved wallet, an object she bought to distract herself from far worse problems.

Melania Trump appeared with her husband at the 2019 Congressional Ball last night, and she took us on a fascinating, inscrutable journey… with her face.

Per a recent Supreme Court decision, four states require women to look at an ultrasound before getting abortion care — a tactic specifically meant to shame and upset them.

There are valid criticisms to be made around Elizabeth Warren's handling of her past claims of her personal history. What's really fascinating is whose imperfect record gets cast as fatally phony, and whose does not.

My toughness got me everything in life I cared about, until I fell in love and had to rethink everything.

The Cut and YouGov polled more than 1,200 people to understand why people dislike this election's female presidential candidates.

Sure, she was beautiful, and an intimidatingly successful pop star, but... did she also kind of look like me?

When I married my wife, her enemies became my enemies, including rude dogs, sexist co-workers, bad neighbors and friends' exes.

Plenty of candidates who were polling far below Kamala Harris remain in the running for president.

Joe Biden's standing in the polls are often used to bolster the idea that most people don't find his behavior toward women all that objectionable, so we conducted our own polls.

Josh Brolin suffered a "severe" burn to his perineum over the Thanksgiving holiday after taking part in the recent Instagram trend of "perineum sunning," which involves exposing your bare sphincter to direct sunlight.

New York State has moved to ban the procedure, making it the first state to introduce such legislation.

Delving into the mystery of the horse in the hayloft.

The last thing you want is to trade passive-aggressive Venmo requests every time you get together. Where does the buck stop?