Used by readers to identify the amount of sexual content in a romance, the chile-pepper ranking scale is a popular but divisive tool. For The Cut, writer Angelina Mazza attempts to make sense of it.

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Author of Dilexi Te, God Loves Everyone, and APOSTOLIC LETTER 'IN UNITATE FIDEI' ON THE 1700th ANNIVERSARY OF THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA

Lately, I find myself bringing up romance on the dance floor. Do you know Talia Hibbert? A four-bedroom in Bushwick: picture me shouting over the music, my sweaty upper lip, hips swaying to a thump…

We turn to TV for escape—or at least to escape this.

How to describe what I heard from the orchestra? It happened one night at the Booth Theater during a preview performance of John Proctor Is the Villain. Raelynn Nix (Amalia Yoo), the preacher’s daught...

I finally get Midnights. I don’t just mean, “Oh, I thought this album was whatever when I first heard it, and now I really love it,” though I do mean that a little bit. I mean I get it get it. Like, I...

Unlike everything else online, the site offers nothing but friction.

SmarterChild taught a generation how to talk to machines.

The clever new movie from the studio behind Spider-Verse is an unlikely musical.

<p>Out of all the creators who participated in our Winter 2025 Sonic Dash, we were only able to feature the top three winners so far. Now, we would love to showcase some of the incredible work from th...

Lately, I find myself bringing up romance on the dance floor. Do you know Talia Hibbert? A four-bedroom in Bushwick: picture me shouting over the music, my sweaty upper lip, hips swaying to a thump…

For Literary Hub, Angelina Mazza reported on “romance’s rising profile among mainstream literary readers.” For the piece,  she spoke with “authors, editors, booksellers, publicists, and agent

A new study uses satellite data to document environmental inequities in North Carolina.

Lately, I find myself bringing up romance on the dance floor. Do you know Talia Hibbert? A four-bedroom in Bushwick: picture me shouting over the music, my sweaty upper lip, hips swaying to a thump…

A new study uses satellite data to document environmental inequities in North Carolina.

Bob’s Burgers keeps getting better. Loren Bouchard’s animated sitcom, now in its 15th season on FOX, is bigger-hearted and far more ambitious than when it first aired in 2011. It has the kind of confi...

The seasonal gusts have exacerbated the deadly fires, and they’re expected to pick back up next week

Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?

Writer and science journalist Sabrina Imbler discusses having empathy for non-human creatures, working at employee-owned media site Defector, and the meditative power of trash TV.

Current Delaware state senator Sarah McBride was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat earlier this month, replacing Lisa Blunt Rochester, who moved to the Senate to replace the r...

Podcast Episode · All The Best · 11/26/2024 · 30m