Twenty years ago, when I was thirteen, I wrote an entry in my journal about abortion, which began, “I have this huge thing weighing on me.” That morning, in Bible class, which I’d attended every day s
Photo: Zachary Scott This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In 2009, when the comedian Nathan Fielder first moved
Photograph by Ruven Afanador The Martini is in, the Martini is back—or so young friends assure me. At Angelo and Maxie’s, on Park Avenue South, a thirtyish man with backswept Gordon Gekko hair lowers
Illustration by Na Kim. About six months after our daughter was born, my husband calmly set the idea on the table, like a decorative gun. I said I’d think about it. I couldn’t pretend to be that surpr
I have never liked grapefruit. They are hard to peel. A friend of mine once used them to practice tattooing: the leathery skin can stand up to the action of the gun, it turns out, plus it holds ink we
T he design department at the tech company I worked for was suffering from a morale problem. Management saw the writing on the wall; our big happy work family was on the verge of a smashup. One aftern
Balenciaga creative director Demna has been hovering on top of the fashion world for almost eight years now. But how do we define his role? Is he fashion’s best comedian? When asked why he collaborate
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H ow she used to smoke in his office, back when the University allowed that in campus buildings. He didn’t smoke, but allowed her to as she sat on the sofa across from his desk. Or rather, he didn’t o
There is not much new to say about the leaked Supreme Court decision that is poised to overturn the legal precedent set in Roe v. Wade (1973). That precedent stated that women have a right to privacy
The ear spoon is a flimsy thing, made of cheap aluminum. In less caring hands, it could cut the delicate skin lining an ear canal or puncture an eardrum. My mother wielded it expertly, tenderly excava
“In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it,” the late anthropologist and activist David Graeber wro
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Last week, Donald Trump was confronted with a new accusation of sexual assault (Trump, as always, denied it), and then delivered a bizarre speech at the National Archives, demanding ideological confor
The carpet cleaner heaves his machine up the stairs, untangles its hoses and promises to dump the dirty water only in the approved toilet. Another day scrubbing rugs for less than $20 an hour . Anothe
I f an alien were to learn about early motherhood in America solely through the media produced by American mothers, she’d reasonably conclude that it is either a blissfully transformative experience p
For psychologists who study it, disgust is one of the primal emotions that define — and explain — humanity. Credit... Maisie Cousins for The New York Times The Great Read For psychologists who study i
Look around at the way young men now think about clothes, design and music, and you’ll see him everywhere. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone
No one prepared me for the heartbreak of losing my first language. It doesn’t feel like the sudden, sharp pain of losing someone you love, but rather a dull ache that builds slowly until it becomes a
Over dinner earlier this summer, the still-new sensation of seeing friends up close and slightly sweating gave way to a smaller pleasure I’d also sorely missed: the ability to see what everyone was we
Olivia Rodrigo's debut album, Sour , is out May 21, less than six months after she shattered streaming records with the breakthrough single "drivers license." Renee Klahr/NPR Lowercase girls tend to f
The moon’s surface is pockmarked with craters, the relics of violent impacts over cosmic time. A few of the largest are visible to the naked eye, and a backyard telescope reveals hundreds more. But turn astronomical observatories or even a space probe on our nearest celestial neighbor, and suddenly…
Credit...Chris Buck for The New York Times To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Seth Rogen’s home sits on several wooded acres in the hills above Los Angeles, under a canopy of live oak and eucalyptus trees strung with outdoor…
Early in the formidable new essay collection “ Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning ,” the poet Cathy Park Hong delivers a fatalistic state-of-the-race survey. “In the popular imagination,” she
In Chinese families , you greet someone by asking if they’ve eaten yet. It is love expressed as concern: Let me take care of you, let me tend to your most basic need. And the response — I’ve eaten already — is an expression of love, too. Don’t worry, Mom, I’m doing fine. When I was in college, my…
D aft Punk’s Paris studio sits on an ugly, bustling thoroughfare on the south side of town, near a train station and a hospital, behind a green garage door. To enter, you press a buzzer and present yo
Image above: The photographer Rose Marie Cromwell documented her experience giving birth and her growing child during the pandemic, in a series called Eclipse . In early March last year, I was heading
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Credit... Emily Shur for The New York Times Feature The Many Lives of Steven Yeun What’s a typical immigrant story? In his new film, “Minari,” the “Walking Dead” star has his own to tell. Credit... Em
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Not making his day. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg By August 9, 2020, 12:00 PM UTC It’s hard to get past the initial sheer inanity of TikTok . I spent half an hour trying to make sense of the en
Former President Barack Obama gives the eulogy at the funeral service for Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Lewis, a civil rights icon and fierce advocate of voting rights for Afr
For the past decade, Jia Tolentino has been writing feverishly on the front lines of cultural warzones. As a staff writer at The New Yorker , she has revitalized the art of the essay for a whole new g
The Truth About Cocoons What caterpillars really go through in there has applications for our moment. By Sam Anderson Every child knows about cocoons. They’re one of the first things we learn about th
My dad died and I didn’t look at the body. The decision made a kind of sense, considering the rules of my life up till then, and considering how my dad was found: a few days after his death, decomposi
“Centering is a verb… an ongoing process… a way of balancing, a spiritual resource in times of conflict, an imagination… an alchemical vessel, a retort, which bears an integration of purposes, an inte
Welcome to GQ's New Masculinity issue, an exploration of the ways that traditional notions of masculinity are being challenged, overturned, and evolved. Read more about the issue from GQ editor-in-chi