Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, the famed essayist's newest book, follows this rupture — some of what preceded it but mostly what came after. The book has received plenty of advance buzz ...

He shared his advice on TikTok this week. Tiktok/@drjoe_md “This method is effective for shallow splinters, as the vacuum created by the syringe can gently pull the splinter out without causing ...

Filmed at a children’s shelter in eastern Ukraine, “A House Made of Splinters” is made with such aching sensitivity that it’s a marvel a camera was used and not some form of mind-meld.

This isn’t the first column I expected to write. But, you know, splinters. Splinters + life is sometimes what you have to work with, and we all know how to march on, even when our feet hurt.

Maybe that’s what Mac “Dr John, the Night Tripper” Rebennack was referring to when he twisted the phrase for “I Walk on Guilded Splinters”, the strung-out centrepiece of his debut album ...