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, white on white with a scatter of tiny …
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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 “The Remains …
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 the e …
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 a subject of great fascination …
Choose Me! Rose-worthy Romance Novels
We will never reach a general sense of how realistic — or unrealistic — the romance genre is because with romance, every generalization is a trap …
The Accidental Wine Educator
The history of wine in the United States owes a lot to something of a happy accident. In 1970, Craig Claiborne, then the restaurant critic of The …
$4.5 Million Homes in California
What You Get for $4.5 Million in California 24 Photos View Slide Show › Steph Dewey/Reflex ImagingSan Francisco | $4.5 Million A Beaux-Arts …
Shopping for Alarm Clocks
With clocks being set back Sunday, at the end of daylight saving time, it will be hard to deny that winter is on the way, and many of us may feel …
I Already Took My Landlord to Court Over Heat Problems. What Now?
Q: For over a decade, I have had inadequate heat in my apartment in an affordable-housing complex in Hell’s Kitchen. Sometimes, I don’t have any …
Homes That Sold for Around $650,000
Each week, our survey of recent residential sales in New York City and the surrounding region focuses on homes that sold around a certain price …