November/December 2016

Players spend more than 40 hours per week on the game. Isn’t it time we give them due credit?

I’m all for nice, but nice is a lot of work — and by the 26th, I’m exhausted by benevolence and eager to be done with it.

In this December 1944 cover, Rockwell blends the chaos of Christmas shopping with the joy of families greeting returning WWII servicemen. Look closely and you’ll see Rockwell himself in the picture.

If you’ve reached a certain birthday, and a stranger refers to you as a “young lady,” you know all too well that ageism is alive and well in America.

100 years before we posted our first Christmas photos on Facebook, we mailed images of our idealized lives to the people we loved.

Jeanne Wolf spoke to biographer Neal Gabler about the singer’s extraordinary appeal.

“Today you cannot imagine what it was like when Streisand burst on the scene in the 1960s. There was nothing like her. … Barbra Streisand broke the mold, she revolutionized gender roles.”

In July 1963, the Post interviewed the 21-year-old singing sensation who that month landed the role of Fanny Brice in the Broadway musical Funny Girl.

Strengthen the large muscle at the back of the upper arm that’s involved in every pushing motion you can think of in minutes a day.

Every month, Amazon staffers sift through hundreds of new books searching for gems. Here’s what Amazon editor Chris Schluep chose especially for Post readers this season:

Yes, there was a communal meal, but the Pilgrims’ table looked nothing like the holiday dinner we serve today.

Beginning in the late 1920s, the Packard Motor Company ran a series of colorful ads in the Post that displayed not only the car but the glamorous life associated with it.

Most drivers don’t need them. So why are pickups so wildly popular?

Newspapers may be in trouble, but the comic strip is alive and well — and flourishing online.

As a young artist, Joseph Csatari was in awe of Norman Rockwell, at first copying him and later working for him before taking off to establish his own bona fides in American illustration.

“A fool,” I said. “That’s what I am.” “Why?” asked my wife. “What for?” I brooded by our third-floor hotel window. On the Dublin street below a man passed, his face to the lamplight. “Him,” I muttered. “Two days ago —” Two days ago as I was walking along, someone had “hissed” me from the […]

Tickle your funny bone with 10 outstanding limericks describing 1957’s Billboard Painters by Stevan Dohanos.

Many legendary comic strip artists got their start in the pages of The Saturday Evening Post.