It’s axiomatic in this business that “Planes land safely at the airport” simply isn’t news, much the same as with “Dog bites man” or “Security flaw found in IE.” This standard of ordinariness does not ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

With a new high-definition television, and in expectation of the Super Bowl this Sunday, I decided it was finally time to take the plunge from standard cable to fiber optics, so I called up Verizon ...

Last week, I slowly started to move into a new home outside of Washington, D.C., in an area of Maryland named Frederick County. The area is lovely—very rural, lots of rolling hills, farms and cows.