Many online retailers are having trouble maintaining the resource-intensive perks they use to attract customers.

Welcome to the slop era of online shopping.

Obscure meme costumes are sucking the joy from the holiday.

No wonder Russia finds its useful idiots among the extremely online.

And new fiction by Elizabeth Strout. Two short book reviews.

Join me on weekly deep dives into my favorite words and phrases from Atlantic crosswords.

On Mahmoud Khalil and the right to free expression

Solvers must develop strong intuitions about what entries are possible and how they can be clued.