The comedian Jenny Slate reads the audiobook version of “Lifeform,” her new memoir about parenting. By Rhoda Feng Rhoda Feng is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C., whose criticism has ...

“Have you any experience with patients who suddenly understood something,” writes Jenny Slate in her new essay collection, Lifeform (Little, Brown), “and then even though they had other ...

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A Jenny Slate book unfolds not in the real world or the realm of make-believe but “the trippy space of the dreamscape and the psyche,” as the 42-year-old actor and comedian puts it.

The actor chats with The Times about her book ‘Lifeform’ and how motherhood has curbed her feelings of self-doubt. The rumored behind-the-scenes drama with “It Ends With Us,” she says, has ...

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With the upcoming presidential election so close, both sides are looking to motivate voters who otherwise might sit out the Trump-Harris contest to come to their respective side. Some of these ...

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