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By season count, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is the longest-running live-action comedy in American TV history. For 17 seasons, the show’s despicable antiheroes (Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson, Charlie Day, and Danny DeVito) have carried out depraved schemes; now, in Season 18, the gang is back for more. Paula Mejía writes about why the show hasn’t faced cancellation.

“Yesteryear,” this summer’s blockbuster novel about a trad-wife influencer who wakes up in a nightmarish alternate reality, has proved to be one of the most successful—and most hotly debated—in years. But, according to the author Caro Claire Burke, the story is about trad wives in the way that “Moby-Dick” is about a whale.