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2 days ago | slate.com | Scaachi Koul

Have you ever stared in a mirror for a few hours? Try it: Watch as your nose somehow shifts placement on your face, how your eyebrows lose symmetry, how quickly you fail to recognize yourself. Facial dysmorphia would come to anyone tasked with considering their own reflection for too long. It’s a similar experience when you promote a book. For the past few weeks, I’ve been touring Canada and the U.S. promoting my latest book, Sucker Punch.

2 days ago | slate.com | Ben Lindbergh |Alex Kirshner |Lindsay Gibbs

Skip to the content Gibberish to Most Readers It’s shaping up to be a chase for the ages. Choose your preferred player: For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone for a link to finish setting up your feed. Please enter a valid phone number.

3 days ago | slate.com | Sam Adams

Television This article containers spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2, Episode 2, “Through the Valley.” Not since the Red Wedding have fans of an HBO series’ source material had this big a secret to keep.

4 days ago | slate.com | Rich Juzwiak

Skip to the content Entangled in This Digital Mess How to Do It How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I have been seeing my boyfriend “Roger” for about six months now. However, I just learned that Roger is married (he doesn’t know I found out). His husband doesn’t know about us, and while I wasn’t thrilled to learn he’s been cheating with me, the sex is spectacular.

4 days ago | slate.com | Sam Adams

Nathan Fielder believes in second chances. With its dizzyingly complicated layers of nested simulations and unnerving ethical provocations, his HBO series The Rehearsal seemed like an impossible act to follow: a landmark, maybe even a masterpiece, but not a repeatable phenomenon. So when plans for a second season were announced on the eve of the show’s finale in August of 2022, it was hard to know what to think.