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Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme
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Graham Norton Would Like a Chat
The Delaunay, an upscale brasserie in London, sits on a crescent-shaped road called Aldwych, where the West End meets Fleet Street, the city’s historic home for newspapers. Situated at...
A Polar-Bear Plunge for the Mind, at Under the Radar
Helen ShawStaff writerIt’s a new year! Hurrah! Time to kick off our fluffy slippers and blast away our winter daze to start 2025 correctly—by watching a metric ton of...
Every Mandala Tells a Secret
There was more flaying than I expected, though not necessarily more than I wanted, at “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet.” Any visitors going to the Met’s exhibition...
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Why Can’t You Just Deal with It?
You have something important to do—something vital. It’s not an item on a list but a burdensome project, urgent and complicated. Your home office must be transformed into a...
“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” Isn’t a Feel-Good New York Story
“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” was an immediate best-seller when it was published, in 1943, and proved particularly popular with servicemen. Many readers addressed their fan letters not to...
Refinding James Baldwin
The text that weighed on him at the time of his arrival to Turkey was his novel “Another Country,” then unfinished. The turbulence of civil-rights America, too. Baldwin is...
The Unstoppable Rise of the State Symbol
If your New Year’s resolution is to stop obsessively reading post-election analyses, then perhaps you would welcome another way of understanding these United States. What do Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,...
In Big Star’s “Radio City,” the Old Spells Don’t Work
In the early months of 1973, the band that dared to call itself Big Star was anything but. The album of glittering, tightly orchestrated guitar rock they had released...
The Weird New Normal of Donald Trump in 2024
On Christmas Day, Donald Trump issued his traditional holiday greeting. Posting on Truth Social, the social-media site created to serve as a platform for both his personal enrichment and...
