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Opinion
How I Became a Science Experiment
Trust the science. That was the mantra that many people repeated in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic — an…
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Opinion
Why We Should Talk About What Kyrsten Sinema Is Wearing
I spent the past week in Nashville, where I’ve been reporting a story and doing background for a book project.…
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Opinion
We Need Beauty as Much as Light and Air
I am in the kitchen preparing my graduate seminar on the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas when I come upon a…
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Opinion
A To-Do List for Eric Adams
Barring political cataclysm, Eric Leroy Adams, a former police captain turned Democratic politician, will become New York City’s next mayor.…
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Opinion
I’m Done With the Costumes That Hid the ‘Monster’ Beneath
I wish I could remember the costume that saved me. In my imagination, it’s a volcano of lace and furbelows,…
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Books
James Ivory, Famous for Buttoned-Up Films, Is Frank About Sex and Much Else in His Memoir
The movie director James Ivory is most closely associated with decorous period pieces, paeans to inhibition like “Howards End” and…
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Science
Amazon to Launch First Two Internet Satellites in 2022
Amazon is getting ready to go to space. The first two prototype satellites from Project Kuiper, the internet-from-space venture from…
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Books
Huma Abedin Has Been to Hell and Back. Now She’s Gingerly Telling the Tale.
BOTH/AND: A Memoir, by Huma Abedin When Huma Abedin was a young, single aide to Hillary Clinton, she was already…
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Books
Choose Me! Rose-worthy Romance Novels
We will never reach a general sense of how realistic — or unrealistic — the romance genre is because with…
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Food
The Accidental Wine Educator
The history of wine in the United States owes a lot to something of a happy accident. In 1970, Craig…