Packing Lists for Your Upcoming Emotional Journeys

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Packing Lists for Your Upcoming Emotional Journeys

Be prepared for anything with D.I.Y. travel Martini ingredients and your twenty-seven nighttime skin-care products.

By Sarah SolomonJune 26, 2025

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How to be a mysterious woman who is also in bed by 9:30 P.M.

I鈥檒l have kids in a few years, when I鈥檓 successful and wealthy and my life is finally perfect.

I am a Tinder guy holding a fish, and I will provide for you.

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Behold, I have returned from a hike.

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Sarah Solomon is the author and illustrator of 鈥淕uac Is Extra but So Am I: The Reluctant Adult鈥檚 Handbook.鈥 She has contributed humor to The New Yorker since 2018.

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The Mini Crossword: Thursday, June 12, 2025

House cat鈥檚 sworn enemy, perhaps: three letters.

By Kate Chin Park

The Mini Crossword: Thursday, June 5, 2025

Sound from a chatty kitty: four letters.

By Andy Kravis

The Mini Crossword: Thursday, June 19, 2025

Green morsels in matar paneer: four letters.

By Mollie Cowger

The Mini Crossword: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Tame tabbies and other feline familiars: nine letters.

By Kate Chin Park

鈥淪outh Carolinian American Sonnet for Independence Day鈥

鈥淭he comfort in the smell of bacon in the morning / is mostly burning fat & salt, but the taste is sweet / as the part of the pig that stores the soul.鈥

By Terrance Hayes

Bonus Daily Cartoon: Unrehearsed

鈥淚s Nathan Fielder in the room with us right now?鈥

By Jason Adam Katzenstein

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Poems on Returning to New York After Some Years Away

No judgment, but is everyone high all the time now?

By Jenny Allen

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Grocery Shopping with My Dead Dad

Maybe, somehow, he was still out there, somewhere.

By Natalie Waksman

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Your Hip Surgery, My Headache

Getting Hugh home after his hip replacement involved a thick cushion and a car with legroom. 鈥淥w!鈥 he said whenever I tried to help. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e making everything worse!鈥

By David Sedaris

Bonus Daily Cartoon: Featherweights

Two glass jaws go at it.

By Brooke Bourgeois

The Mini Crossword: Friday, May 30, 2025

Garfunkel鈥檚 singing partner: five letters.

By Mollie Cowger

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