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T he connection between writing and dancing has been much on my mind recently: it’s a channel I want to keep open. It feels a little neglected – compared to, say, the relationship between music and prose – maybe because there is something counter-intuitive about it. But for me the two forms are…

Four years ago, she was a global superstar. Then a contract dispute — and her rape claim against her producer — sent her career into the wilderness. The Exile Kesha. Jack Davison for The New York Times. Styling by Shelby Scudder. Hair and makeup by Vittorio Masecchia. Manicure by Miho Okawara. K…

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From the box art of the original Castlevania. (Art: Castlevania Wiki) Let's Playlist In Let’s Playlist, the Gameological staff assembles a themed lineup of video game music and packages it in a YouTube playlist. But we’re just providing the start. It’s up to you to nominate your own candidates and…

Day One The morning of our departure I woke in the dark, Rachel and the baby breathing softly beside me. An oval of light worked its way over the knotty pine of the Adak ’s stateroom, cast by the sodium floodlights of a herring seiner passing in the channel. Lying there I could see my upcoming trip…

How discovering an equation for altruism cost George Price everything. By Michael Regnier. Laura met George in the pages of Reader’s Digest . In just a couple of column inches, she read an abridged version of his biography and was instantly intrigued. In the 1960s, apparently, egotistical scientist…