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  • How Jesmyn Ward Is Reimagining Southern Literature

    Jesmyn Ward gestured with her eyes and a tilt of her face, hands on the wheel. “This crazy colored house right here? That’s my grandmother’s house. That’s the house I grew up in. And her sister lives there” — she pointed — “and then that little blue ...

  • Judge John Hodgman on the Soup Debate

    Paul writes: I’m the cook in our house. As summer turns to fall, I like to make hearty soups. But my wife contends that soup is not a dinner food — unless she is sick. I say this is absurd. Your wife can always make her own prime rib or pheasant ...

  • Poem: fluid cupid

    Credit...Illustration by R. O. BlechmanA longtime postcard poet, Buck Downs has been sending out monthly poems to readers since the 1990s, and his work, often unsigned, can also be found affixed to light poles and other urban surfaces, distributed ...

  • Friday the 13th Is Coming Up. Try Not to Be Spooked.

    Depending on where you fall on the scale from “extremely superstitious” to “not at all,” Friday may be the most frightful day of your year. It’s the 13th. It’s Friday the 13th. It’s Friday the 13th in October, the spookiest month of all. The ...

  • In Paris, a Mexico City Gallery Installs a Fantasy Sitting Room

    Plus: a new stay in Joshua Tree, furniture inspired by dance — and more recommendations from T Magazine.

  • This Is Not a Taylor Swift Profile

    Section 301, In the second-to-highest tier of Levi’s Stadium, floats 105 feet above Santa Clara, Calif. It comprises 251 seats — a mere hamlet in the vast 64,000-seat general kingdom of the place, but it was our hamlet, and on the last Saturday in ...

  • The Ultimate ‘If You Know, You Know’ Fashion Line

    Cristaseya isn’t trying to hide, it just knows that the right people will find it.

  • A Vintage Market Pops Up in a U-Haul Truck

    Colorful glassware, a chrome-legged couch and Japanese pants were some of the items being resold at U-Mall, a sort of outdoor-market-meets-stoop-sale.

  • From LSD to I.P.O.

    This may be a tale about the rise of a German sandal brand, but it is not a straightforward fashion story. After all, for a large chunk of its 249-year history, Birkenstock was synonymous with extremely unfashionable stereotypes. The sandals were ...

  • I’m an American Living Abroad Permanently. Should I Vote in U.S. Elections?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the implications of casting a ballot in a country you have no plans to return to.

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