Table of Contents Toggle Read Time: 9 minutes Before we get into the details, there is one thing above all else that it is important to grasp if you want results that last. If you want to keep your results, you must be willing to approach this as a change to your lifestyle. If your intent is to “go…
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Dept. of Science All of us know people who have more energy than we do, but the science of the phenomenon is just coming into view. November 1, 2021 The tireless project jugglers, the calendar maximizers: how do they do it?Illustration by Nolan Pelletier For months, during the main pandemic stretch,…
The New Yorker Interview December 9, 2018 Photograph by Ernesto Urdaneta From the New Yorker Festival, the couples therapist and podcast host discusses infidelity, apologies, and the problem with wedding vows these days. The psychotherapist Esther Perel knows how to work a room. Since the…
5-10-15-20 The author talks about the songs that have defined him, five years at a time. July 25, 2017 Photo by Adrian Cook In Jonathan Lethem’s books, music isn’t merely a soundtrack; it offers a safety rope, a sense of higher purpose, and a backbeat for satire. See Lionel Essrog, the Tourettic…
Every day, unless I forget, I take two pills. One is oblong and beige and burns my throat quite badly if I attempt to swallow it dry. The other is round and white. They are antidepressants, though dif
I pride myself on my incorrigible correctness. I do not tend to have wrong opinions, and it would be very unlike me to say something that did not portray the genuine state of things. Jumbo blueberries
Personal History Pearls After thirty years together, sleeping is the new having sex. May 10, 2021 For a thirtieth anniversary, you’re supposed to offer pearls, but sheets felt right.Illustration by Karin Söderquist It’s July in West Sussex, and I’m at a garden party, talking with a lawyer who has…
-Your natural salience filter is a great determinant of what’s most alive to you. If you begin to rely on any other filter, you will increasingly record what seems like it should be interesting according to some preexisting criteria rather than what organically sticks to your mind. This is a…
“I think we need to bring back shame,” is something I’ve said many times as a glib half-joke a few drinks deep on a night out. I have thought it to myself after seeing an Instagram post from someone “
There are some questions that are perfectly suited to be discussed at the bar after you’ve had a few beers with your pals and everyone has finished complaining about work and gossiping about acquainta
Twenty-eight year-old Los Angeleno Mohammad is used to getting attention on the internet. As someone in the r/NattyOrJuice subreddit described him, he “has the body of an action star” and the “face of a comedy relief character.” By that, they mean Mohammad is incredibly buff, and also has a…
It requires no special insight to conclude that they fuck you up, your mom and dad. Still, attachment theory is having a new moment, laundering the observation through its Duplo-sized conceptual vocab
Page-Turner October 17, 2011 Birding is the opposite of being at the movies—you’re outside, not sitting in a windowless box; you’re stalking wild animals, not looking at pictures of them. You’re dependent on weather, geography, time of day—if you miss the prothonotary warbler, there isn’t a midnight…
Photo: Amanda Demme This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. By the time you finish reading A Little Life, you will have spent a whole book waiting for a man to kill himself. The novel, the second from author Hanya…
Joan Didion, who died last month, embodied cool in its multifarious meanings: stylishness, reserve, aplomb, proportion, idiosyncrasy and poise. Cool always has its superficial aspects, like the “iconi
The Great ReadFirst Person Do I hate my husband? Oh for sure, yes, definitely. Credit...Jake Terrell By Dec. 24, 2021 After 15 years of marriage, you start to see your mate clearly, free of your own projections and misperceptions. This is not necessarily a good thing. When encountering my husband,…
Letter from Silicon Valley The billionaire venture capitalist has fans and followers. What are they looking for? October 27, 2021 Illustration by Nikita Iziev; Source photograph by Kiyoshi Ota / Bloomberg / Getty Silicon Valley is not a milieu known for glamour and charisma. Still, Peter Thiel has…
Books of The Times Credit.... AmazonApple BooksBarnes and NobleBooks-A-MillionBookshop.org When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The figure of the modeling agent must be up there with the personal injury lawyer and the tobacco lobbyist as…
Page-Turner April 29, 2016 To read the Hungarian writer Magda Szabó’s “The Door” is to feel turned inside out—as if our own foibles have been written in soap on the mirror, to be read when we wake up from the trance of our own self-importance.Photograph by INTERFOTO / Alamy On a recent cold, rainy…
Crime and Provenance: A Chosen Son Is Exiled JAMES SANSUM entered the elegant parlor room of his Upper East Side antiques gallery, with its rare artworks and precious knickknacks, followed by a frisky
Eve Babitz’s singular take on Los Angeles. Babitz, as pictured on the first edition of Eve’s Hollywood. Years ago, a friend gave me a first edition of Eve Babitz’s second book, Slow Days, Fast Company (1974), which had slipped out of print. Tucked inside was a promotional photo of the author on…
A golden girl in the Golden State, Eve Babitz, the daughter of a well-regarded Hollywood studio musician and goddaughter to Stravinsky, was seen—in all the places you go to be seen in Los Angeles—before she was heard. Her first book, the glossy, memoiristic essay collection Eve’s Hollywood (1972;…
Photographs by Michael Friberg Image above: The Oquirrh Mountain Temple sits about 20 miles south of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, where the Church is based. This article was published online on December 16, 2020. To meet with the prophet during a plague, certain protocols must be followed. It’s…
This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Photo: Marie Tomanova Dasha Nekrasova is hungry, and she’s not interested in patiently waiting her turn. It’s after 3 p.m. on a Sunday, but the West Village restaurant Bar…
Profiles “I take him as seriously as I take my own life,” he says of his character, Kendall Roy. December 5, 2021 Adam McKay says of Strong’s portrayal of Kendall Roy, “He’s not playing it like a comedy. He’s playing it like he’s Hamlet.”Photograph by Paola Kudacki for The New Yorker When Jeremy…
Photo by Dean Kissick Dean Kissick is a writer and Spike’s New York Editor. Dean has written for Interview, Civilization, The Drunken Canal, and The New York Times, among others. His monthly Spike column, The Downward Spiral, has over the past few years become the one thing online I consistently and…
In his analysands' chair, 2000. Adam Phillips was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1954. He was educated at Oxford, where he read English. Later he trained as a child psychotherapist and would become the principal at Charing Cross Hospital, in London. He also worked for seventeen years in the National…
Sometimes, when I’m having a bad day, maybe in the middle of some stupid argument with a stranger on the internet, the thought briefly crosses my mind: I should just say that whoever is currently driv
Enda Bowe/Hulu Connell (Paul Mescal) and Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones), Normal People, 2020 In 2013, the Irish writer Sally Rooney, then only twenty-two, was the top debater at the European University Debating Championships. This might seem unusual for a would-be novelist. One assumes that if one…
Reflections April 28, 2008 ZOHAR LAZAR When I was in fourth grade, my class took a field trip to the American Tobacco plant in nearby Durham, North Carolina. There we witnessed the making of cigarettes and were given free packs to take home to our parents. I tell people this and they ask me how old…
Marc Andreessen should need no introduction, but I’ll do one anyway. He helped code the first widely used graphical web browser, Mosaic, which as I see it makes him one of the inventors of the internet. He co-founded Netscape and various other companies. He also co-founded the venture capital firm…
To call Natalie Wynn a YouTuber seems like a terrible understatement. On a platform awash in makeup tutorials, guys playing video games, horrible comedy and conspiracy theorists, Wynn – whose YouTube channel is called ContraPoints – is someone truly original: a provocateuse, a video essayist and a…
At the end of Miranda Popkey’s novel Topics of Conversation, there is a short section titled “Works (Not) Cited.”1 She writes, “This manuscript emerged in part from an engagement with and in some cases refers elliptically to the following texts, televisions shows, films, web series, works of art,…
A Reflection on Meals, Growing Up, and Gathering Text: Thessaly La Force Like most people I know, I didn’t learn to cook until I was out of college. What need did an 18-year-old have for it? I was a f
The distinction between fixed personality and willed character is murky. Could improving your personality be a moral duty? It’s tempting to think that we’re obliged to improve some areas of our personality, while other aspects of who we are are less malleable but more morally neutral. Maybe we…
Remy Duran at 1:33 am. Photo: Courtesy of Brock Colyar This article originally appeared in are u coming?, a newsletter about the return of New York nightlife. Sign up here. Remy Duran is the kind of club kid who makes you wonder how he could possibly keep going — someone who sees nightlife as his…
Nan Goldin Leslie Camhi Memory Lost, the photographer’s first New York solo show in five years. Nan Goldin, Memory Lost, 2019–21 (installation view). Digital slideshow; 24 minutes, 16 seconds. Photo: Alex Yudzon. © Nan Goldin. Nan Goldin: Memory Lost, Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 West Fifty-Seventh…
Why is everyone still talking about Christopher Lasch? An intellectual of the generation that came of age in the Fifties, he began his career something of a Marxist but, by the time of his death in 1994, had settled on a politics that combined an intransigent anti-capitalism with traditional stances…
There’s a good chance most of the problems in your life and work come down to insufficient slack. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it. Imagine if you, as a budding productivity enthusiast, one day gained access to a time machine and decided to take a trip back several decades to the…
Apart from closing for repairs several years ago and a few days after 9/11, Balthazar has been open every day for the last 23 years. And then—COVID hit. Six other restaurants of mine have shut their doors due to the pandemic, but none affected me as much as Balthazar’s closing. The idea of a large,…
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