The standup on studying Ancient Greek comedy at university, his worst gig and having the test scores shouted at him during sets ...

How did Greek comedy evolve out of tragedies? And how did that become real comedy? This week, we're diving head first into Greek Comedy. But don't get TOO ready for hilarity. Taste in humor has ...

One of the best-selling Halloween items on Amazon right now is a floppy blond wig called “Mr. Billionaire.” At Barnard College one recent evening, a student named Aaron Moore pulled one over his brown ...

But this adaptation of Aristophanes’ text by Karathanos and Yiannis Asteris should not be construed as a literal-minded commentary on contemporary events. Part of the Onassis Cultural Center-Athens ...

Listen to Emily Wilson discuss Aristophanes with Thomas Jones on Among the Ancients, part of the LRB's Close Readings podcast. Find out more here. When Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion released ‘WAP’ ...

Commas, semicolons and question marks are so commonplace it seems as if they were always there – but that’s not the case. Keith Houston explains their history. As readers and writers, we’re intimately ...

Late last week, Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes dropped by The FADER office. She told us about how her tour is going (really fun), what she's doing in New York (there's definitely a new record in the ...

I recently had occasion to return to Plato’s highly influential dialogue, Symposium, in relation to Sigmund Freud’s interpretation of it in his work. I was struck by another connection – that between ...