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Can Sukeban Make Female Wrestling Fashionable With Americans?
At around 10:30 p.m. last Wednesday, in a downtown skate park under Interstate 95 in Miami, four wrestlers entered a ring: Bingo, Midnight Player, Rina Yamashita and Stray Cat. More than a thousand people, including men in baseball hats and Miami ...
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The Strangest Toy on Wish Lists This Year
It’s part Build-A-Bear and part Easy-Bake Oven.
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Provocative Sex Is Back at the Movies. But Are We Ready for It?
In Todd Haynes’s newest film, “May December,” Joe Yoo (Charles Melton) is a 30-something man in a marriage with an unconventional back story. He met his wife, Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore), the summer after seventh grade — but she was 36 at ...
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I’ve Never Watched Anything as Transformative as ‘Sailor Moon’
The show is about friendship, yes, and also liberation that does not match the world’s expectations of femininity.
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The Gallery That Has Never Lost an Artist
Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers built one of the art world’s most powerful businesses by not following conventional wisdom.
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My Kids Look White. Does My Thai Father Make Them Asian?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on representing multiracial heritage, especially when the details are complex.
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The Year of the Mega Sleeve
Raglan, fluted, leg o’ mutton, bishop, puffed, balloon — whatever you want to call them, we wore them.
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I Have to Buy New Jeans. Help!
A reader seeks guidance for navigating the overwhelming and environmentally destructive denim market.
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The Devastation of Disinheritance
This essay is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships. In 2017, eight years after I discovered that my father had disinherited me, a FedEx driver stopped at my house to deliver an envelope. I didn’t know how to ...
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We Spied on Our Teenage Daughter With a Hidden Camera. Now What Do We Do?
Parents who installed a camera in the eye of their daughter’s stuffed bear ask how — and whether — to come clean about their surveillance now that she has left for college.