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The Generation That Will Always Be Too Young to Smoke
Like almost every smoker, I started when I was a child. Children aren’t supposed to smoke; it’s allegedly a part of the adult world, something you get inducted into...
Rostam Batmanglij Wanders to the Edges of American Sound
Other songs on “American Stories” are more personal. “Like a Spark” opens with a blues riff played on a nylon-string guitar, offset by the appearance of a saz, a...
Local Media Is Thriving in E-mail Newsletters
When I first moved to Brooklyn, in 2010, a small, stapled, glossy print product became my guide to my new neighborhood of Bushwick and beyond. The L Magazine covered...
Buddy Bradley’s Legacy of Dance
The case that Ashton and Bradley heavily influenced each other is stronger, if also strained. They collaborated on the stereotype-sodden 1932 ballet “High Yellow”—which, if it was not exactly,...
The Twenty-Six-Year-Old Behind “Obsession,” a Terrifying Tale of a Crush Gone Awry
“It starts from a very innocent place with Bear. I wanted it to be relatable. We’ve all had a crush on someone who didn’t like us back—which is kind...
A Ten-Course Tasting Where Dessert Is the Whole Point
The Journey, which Lee débuted earlier this year, on Thursday evenings only, is something of a return to form for the chef. Before opening her bakery, she worked in...
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How Reading with My Dying Mother Revealed Her Life
I was eight, and through my bedroom wall I could hear my mother, Heidi, talking to herself as she prepared to go to sleep. Every night, in the living...
What “The Sheep Detectives” Doesn’t Understand About Sheep
The formidable historian Carlo Ginzburg once published a paper called “Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method,” in which he argued that the late-nineteenth-century obsession with the “clue,” meaning a...
Do We Think Too Much About the Future?
How’s that going? Two facts stand out. First, since no one actually knows the future, guessing, speculating, or simply making things up remains the state of the art for...
The Political Power of the Wine Mom
But, most often, she is Wine Mom. A recent stroll through my social-media feeds turns up the “normie resist lib wine mom,” the “Occupy Democrats menopausal wine mom,” and...
