Magazine
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Honey, Let’s Ditch the Kids
Some parents of adult children have made the bold choice to forgo family traditions this holiday season.
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boygenius Is Having All the Fun
There’s a scene in the movie “Help!” where the Beatles roll up to a row of terraced houses and approach their adjacent front doors — four separate entrances, one for each Beatle. Then the camera cuts inside, and we see that all four doors lead into ...
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What to See, Eat and Buy in Tangier, Morocco’s Cultural Magnet
Four insiders on where to go for rooftop drinks, treasure hunting and more.
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Poem: Primavera
In “Primavera,” Louise Glück’s fascination with both pastoral scenes and the devastation of loss coalesces in a vision of springtime somewhere, perhaps in a field, where “someone has drawn a picture of the sun.” No one has signed the image; the ...
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Judge John Hodgman on the Irresistible Vinaigrette
How can he eat his wife’s leftover dressing without being disgusting?
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Why the Holidays Are a True Test of Your Relationship
Making it through the festive month of December is harder than it seems.
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This Cake Maker Finds Beauty in Change, Time and Even Life and Death
A decade ago, Jasmine Rae de Lung, a San Francisco-based cake maker, wanted to test out some new decorating elements. She headed to Clement Street in the Richmond, a neighborhood with several Asian markets. Her haul that day included some rice paper ...
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In Marrakesh, a Family-Style Dinner in a Secret Garden
The Moroccan restaurateur Kamal Laftimi, 53, grew up on the edges of Jemaa el-Fna, the main public square of Marrakesh and an entrance to the city’s historic medina quarter. All day, and late into the night, travelers, musicians and local families ...
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My Best Friend Is Bad With Money. Should I Tell His Traveling Companions?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether it’s appropriate to make a financial disclosure on someone else’s behalf.
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He Was My Role Model. My Mentor. My Supplier.
O.G. rings me in the a.m. to say he’s just touched down in Phoenix. It’s the day before he said he’d arrive, and while there was a time when I’d treat the seeming opacity of his plans as par, the call’s a minor surprise. He asks for my address and ...