Magazine
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I Learned I Fathered a Daughter. Should I Contact Her, Against My Ex’s Wishes?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the burden of keeping destabilizing secrets.
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A Really Great Polenta Finishes Off Strong
Infused oil gives a final kick to this dish with roasted-until-golden mushrooms and charred tomatoes.
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I’m Estranged From My Best Friend but Still Invited to Her Family Holidays. Help!
A reader feels conflicted about attending celebrations as a friend of the family when the woman who was her original connection won’t be there. Should she bow out?
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At Berlin’s Futuristic New Performance Venue, Even the Walls Make Music
The Reethaus’s spatial sound system inspires events that are immersive, experimental — and surprisingly spiritual.
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She Redecorated Her Boyfriend’s Apartment. TikTok Hated It.
Is “sad beige” finally over?
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The 25 Essential Dishes to Eat in Mexico City
How do you sift through Mexico City’s roughly 57,000 places to eat — more than twice as many as there are in New York City — and choose the most essential dishes? “In a city like Mexico City, how do you narrow it down? It’s insane. The exercise is ...
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Listening to Lady Bird Johnson, in Her Own Words
“The Lady Bird Diaries” depicts the former first lady as a mass of contradictions.
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Maps That Tell Their Own Stories
Oculi Mundi, a new online collection, shares the artistry of early creators.
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Russell Brand’s Alternate Reality
On Sept. 12, four days before he was expected at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theater for another sold-out show, Russell Brand asked his fans for a favor. “I’ve always struggled with authority and being told what to do,” he wrote to ticketholders ...
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The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life
As an incubator of life, Earth has a lot going for it, something we often fail to appreciate fully from within its nurturing bounds. Merely sending probes and rovers to the moon and Mars won’t do. For various reasons — adventure! apocalypse! commerce ...