EditorialChris Rock continues his monologue after being slapped by Will Smith, seated at left with his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, at the 94th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 27, 2022. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
EditorialThe body of Mr. Browning, lying in the hall of the palazzo Rezzonico, Venice Italy 1889. Robert Browning, 1812 ? 1889, an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.
EditorialAlex ToussaInt, a star instructor at Peloton who incorporated an emotional, personal monologue touching on race and racism into a workout class that has since been streamed more than 65,000 times, in New York, July 23, 2020. (Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times)
EditorialCandace Owens, a conservative commentator and pro-Trump activist, speaks at a Young Black Leadership Summit event at the White House in Washington, Oct. 4, 2019. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times)
EditorialScreenshots of the actor Marlon Burnley as Keishon performing the monologue “Child Sacrifices on the Altar of Uncle Sam,” by Avery Sharpe, about the troubled foster care system, over Zoom, June 14, 2020. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)