The American short story has always had a challenge finding a broad audience. But in the pages of one magazine, short fiction ...

Face front, true believers! Marvel Studios has just announced the official title for Spider-Man 4, and it's quite a doozy. The film, which will star Tom Holland as the returning Peter Parker, has ...

Superstar artist Peach Momoko is no stranger to Marvel Rivals, with her interpretation of Psylocke serving as the game's main incarnation of the character. Now, she's going hands-on with a new one ...

The darkly comic Southern novelist kept a quiet practice ... she hoped to place her linoleum-block-print satires of campus life in The New Yorker. Instead, she left for the Iowa Writers ...

New Yorker cartoonist Kate Curtis has a special talent for distilling the absurdities of modern life into sharp, satirical, ...

He also became a regular performer in the Catskill Mountains in New York. “I was never a real stand-up comic, like a monologist,” he noted in 1996. “I would do sound effect things ...

The American comics industry was largely started by the children of Jewish immigrants. Like most publishing in the early 20th century, it was centered in New York City, home to the country’s ...

Think of Hester Prynne, with her scarlet letter, or Lily Bart, the heroine of Edith Wharton’s novel “The House of Mirth,” whose hope of securing her future among New York’s upper crust is ...

while former mob boss Wilson Fisk pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.

If there was an effort to make stand-up comedy a bit more genteel a few years ago -- with offensive words and phrases placed ...