Magazine
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Judge John Hodgman on the Most Cheeky Onomatopoeia
A couple disagrees on the etymology of a fart.
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The Most Memorable Fictional Dinner Parties to Inspire Your Own
Things to emulate — or avoid: 24 gatherings in films, plays and books, from an enviably bizarre dog-friendly meal to a nightmarish food fight.
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We’re Reading Michael Cunningham’s ‘Specimen Days’ With the Author
Join us Dec. 8 for a virtual conversation on this novel about love, yearning, transcendence and America.
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In This Crazy World, I Can Always Count on Curry
The warm, versatile flavors of Japanese kare rice can be a weekday comfort or a marquee meal.
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In ‘White Lotus,’ Beauty and Truth Are All Mixed Up
This season focuses on the willful delusion of the wealthy — and how easily preyed upon people who evade reality can be.
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Three Looks That Got Our Attention at the People’s Choice Awards
Shania Twain, Olivia Wilde and Lizzo wore some of the most showstopping looks to the ceremony Tuesday night.
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Suits So Good They Make a Case for Monarchy
The Savile Row tailoring in “The Crown” makes no guarantees for the survival of the monarchy, but it leaves little doubt that in men’s wear, the suit is still king.
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Tell Him Your Story, and He’ll Photograph Your Wedding. For Free.
As a freshman at Princeton eight years ago, Vincent Po came to dread introductions. Many of the students he met there were prodigies, patent holders, jet-setting heirs and heiresses to the global elite. Whenever conversations inevitably turned back ...
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Kirstie Alley’s Dance With Hollywood
Long before the current body-positivity movement, Ms. Alley made people think about fatness on TV, often at her own expense.
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Margaret Atwood Offers Her Vision of Utopia
Margaret Atwood is one of the world’s foremost writers of dystopian literature, having imagined such worst-case horrors as a theocracy that forces fertile women to bear children for the rich (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) and a bioengineered virus capable ...