I used to want to be a mother. Or I thought I did. Around Christmas, I would pull cookies from the oven, inhale the heady punch of ginger, and think, One day, I will teach someone how to do this. I wo
There are two kinds of people: those who know nothing about Esalen and those who purport to know everything about it. To find out which kind of person you’re talking to, simply utter the three syllabl
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This experience kindled the ambition to start Processing. We started by extending DBN to include color and other features, but soon realized that these limitations were the essence of that platform an
Kendrick Lamar understands and employs blues, jazz, and soul in his music, which makes it startling. His work is more than merely brilliant; it is magic.—TONI MORRISON It takes guts, courage, and skil
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In November, the St. Regis Shanghai Jingan hosted a “midnight supper” for the fashion designer Jason Wu. The event, which, according to a press release, was inspired by the late-night soirées of the…
“Suck one and die,” says Scotty, a tall, mostly-true, kid. “I’m aggressive ’cause I think you don’t know shit.” We’re in HowItWas class. “Well,” Mr. Harper says, twisting his ugly body toward us, “you
W e shot dogs. Not by accident. We did it on purpose and we called it ‘Operation Scooby’. I’m a dog person, so I thought about that a lot. First time was instinct. I hear O’Leary go, ‘Jesus,’ and ther
Ursula Villarreal-Moura MUCCI I FOR THEIR FIRST ANNIVERSARY, MARCELO and Tatum ventured to Rome. The trip was an attempt at a tabula rasa—an erasure of their disastrous honeymoon to Croatia. On a whim
I avoid reading accounts of other composers’ ways of working. I’ve only ever been disappointed by stories of their abusive and antagonistic relationships with the people they’re close to, or, in the
I couldn’t figure out why small, straightforward tasks on my to-do list felt so impossible. The answer is both more complex and far simpler than I expected. Getty Images “I tried to register for the 2
There are many ways to tell the story of Jackie Chan. He is the heir to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the comic grace of his movements leaving audiences in laughing wonder. He’s also the heir to
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 publication of her first book, “Mating in Captivity,” in 2006, she has travelled…
When the novelist Yan Lianke visits his elderly mother, which he does every two to three months, he is loath to tell anyone he’s coming. As a local boy made good, Yan is acutely aware of the hazards t
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Credit...Alex Prager for The New York Times. Painting by Vanessa Prager. Stylist: Rebecca Grice. Hair: Bobby Eliot. Makeup: Molly R. Stern. Supposing that God is real and possessed of a human corporeal form — mankind being created in his image (reportedly) — we might reasonably conjecture that God’s…
In 2012, Michael Wang, a senior at James Logan High School, in the Bay Area, was confident that he had done enough to get into one of his dream schools: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Princeton. He had
The civilized dinner party is probably over — even when you’re dining with friends. Everything means too much now. Everything. Our politics, obviously. But our genders, our food, our television. Our television. Last month, I was in a six-way conversation about HBO that narrowed into two people hung…
One of the most notable qualities of the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, leaked to the Washington Post a month before the 2016 Presidential election, was the bizarre, awkward, three-toddlers-in-a-tr
Photo: Mark Horton/Getty Images What does rap music do for you? Does it make you feel cool? Does it make you feel understood? Does it make you cry? Does it make you want to change the world? Historica
Credit... Artwork by Gengoroh Tagame Rei Kawakubo Revealed (Sort Of) Forty years ago, the Comme des Garçons designer began creating subversive, gender-bending clothes for men at a time when no one els
Henry Delaney with his dad Note: I wrote all of this except the last paragraph in April or May of 2017. I changed names as well, except for Henry’s. I’m on the bus to go see my son Henry at the hospit
True to its title , Crazy Rich Asians features two hours of Asian people doing crazy and rich things. They purchase million-dollar-plus earrings; they fly helicopters to a bachelor party hosted on a f
Photo: Christaan Felber for Vulture Mac Miller died on September 7, 2018 . This profile was reported in mid-August of that year and was originally published the day before his death. We are revisiting
This essay is adapted from the preface to “ Fashion Climbing ,” a posthumous memoir by the New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, to be published in September, by Penguin. I loved him wi
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Ever since my mom died, I cry in H Mart. For those of you who don’t know, H Mart is a supermarket chain that specializes in Asian food. The “H” stands for han ah reum , a Korean phrase that roughly tr
A merica’s Founding Fathers , after breaking free from monarchical subjugation, were determined to construct a government of checks and balances on absolute concentrated power. So they created a feder
For a while in my early 20s, I had only one clearly articulated ambition: to eat at least once at every restaurant on Pico Boulevard, starting with the fried yucca dish served at a pupuseria near the
A video showing facial recognition software in use at the headquarters of the artificial intelligence company Megvii in Beijing. ZHENGZHOU, China — In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station. In Qingdao, a city…
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Has it occurred to you that nobody talks about sellouts anymore? Recently on my commute I passed someone wearing an Obey shirt. I was reminded of friends and internet commenters on forums I once frequ
Elizabeth and her baby at home in Rhode Island. It was not until her third month of feeling unwell, in the fall of 2016, that Alicia thought to take an at-home pregnancy test. Until then, she assumed her fatigue and nausea were withdrawal symptoms from the Percocets she’d been dependent upon since…