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Alexandra Petri

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Alexandra Petri writes a humor column for the Washington Post, and also plays and books and other things. Her new book AP’s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up) comes out April 2023.

September 23, 2022

Famous Chess Matches, If Some of the Players Were Cheating Using Vibrating Anal Beads, a Thing That Is Allegedly Happening in the Chess World and Is Not Something Random That I Made Up

by Alexandra Petri
January 16, 2019

Finally, A Razor For Men

by Alexandra Petri and Jessica M. Goldstein
June 22, 2018

Fashion Tips for Visiting a Detention Center Filled With Children Who Were Ripped From Their Parents’ Arms

by Jessica M. Goldstein and Alexandra Petri

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April 16, 2024

An Open Letter to Wyna Liu, the New York Times’ Connections Editor

by Ioana Burtea
April 18, 2024

Good News, Husband: I’ve Become a Tradwife

by Wendi Aarons and Johanna Gohmann
April 18, 2024

Writer Math

by Elissa Bassist
February 6, 2024

My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I Sent in the Slack

by Gwynna Forgham-Thrift

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April 24, 2024

Acknowledgments Page for the Email I Put Off for Seven Weeks and Finally Sent

by Simon Henriques
April 24, 2024

Comic Book Onomatopoeia and Their Real-World Counterparts

by Martin Walters
April 23, 2024

In Retrospect, Hiring Macbeth as Our Tinned Soup Ambassador Was a Bad Idea

by Ross Murray
April 23, 2024

Family Tours in the Kingdom of the Sick: Golf Course, Lightning

by Rebecca Saltzman