For Jonathan Gourlay, Facebook Timeline has turned his news feed into an online cemetery.
After her mastectomy, Juliet Disparte gets breast implants — a process that reveals just how shallow she is.
For Lauren Bagby, awards season marks the time to track and trade DVD screeners with friends and coworkers in the movie biz.
Jonathan San talks to Jay McInerney, who brings the bitter, depressed prose of his novels to horoscopes.
As the New York City Marathon nears, Lindsay Crouse lessens her running and ups her eating and sleeping.
When John Davidson’s apartment gets robbed, he learns that the easiest way to get his stuff back is to have one drug dealer lie to another drug dealer while he lies to the police.
Katie Boody struggles to console one of her brightest students after his older brother is murdered.
Lauren Bagby has advice in case the show you’re working on doesn’t get picked up for a second season.
Luke Epplin likes his food bland and simple — why is that so hard to explain?
Jonathan Gourlay stops reading books. This is what happens to him.
The Bureau Editors are taking a short break to enjoy the holidays. In the meantime, enjoy some of their favorite articles from the past year.
Kevin Nguyen wonders what it would be like to chat up the women that define scandalous hipster chic.
Darryl Campbell has a few suggestions on how book reviewers can sound more esoteric.
This is the third installment in a series of essays by jet-setter Jordan Barber, who is currently studying Mandarin at Donghai University in Taichung, Taiwan. Adventurous as always, Jordan reports on the good, the bad, and the ugly of his experiences with Taiwanese cuisine.
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