The Yes The Yes Having thoroughly cleansed my wardrobe of anything that didn’t quite spark joy over the last 12 months, I dare say I feel a bit like shopping again. But with vaccine appointments hard to come by, the thought of perusing the spring arrivals indoors doesn’t exactly appeal. Online shopping is of course…
Bad times for American labor have also meant boom times for a certain strain of American nostalgia. According to a well-worn narrative, the postwar era was an idyll of heavy industry and stable union jobs; a family with 2.5 children could get by with just one breadwinner — the archetypical working-class man, who toiled in…
Prabal Gurung, the Nepalese-American designer, has been a vocal proponent of inclusion and diversity since his first show in 2009. In the wake of the Atlanta shootings and an upswing in anti-Asian violence, he talked to The New York Times about his own experiences and what his work has to do with it. How do…
Good morning. Melissa Clark has a fantastic new recipe in the newspaper we printed last night, folded into blue bags and tossed in the general direction of our print subscribers’ front doors this morning. It’s for a bracing escarole salad with smoky halloumi croutons (above), dressed in a garlicky citronette, with slivered onion, parsley, some…
A Two-Bedroom Marvel Built Into a London Viaduct $1.3 MILLION (975,000 BRITISH POUNDS) This arched two-bedroom, two-bath house is built below and beside an active 19th-century railway viaduct in South London. The open-plan home, covering 1,600 square feet, is wrapped in a rust-colored steel shell and brings in light through a slender three-story atrium. The…
The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine is extremely effective in adolescents 12 to 15 years old, perhaps even more so than in adults, the companies reported on Wednesday. No infections were found among children who received the vaccine in a recent clinical trial, the drug makers said; the children produced strong antibody responses and experienced no serious…
When I arrived years ago at the piece of land I now garden, I saw it as a blank canvas and set about madly planting things, imagining my efforts would bring every square foot to life. I did not understand then that the heavy lifting had already been done — and probably by some blue…
He has treated more than 1,000 patients, both in Australia and overseas, for the disease. Many of those in Australia are older, but others are young teachers, laborers and even children. He measures their lesions gently with a ruler, marking them to track their progression. Though they look like the stuff of nightmares — some…
At a government hospital in Larkana, I watched as a nurse left a needle uncapped after preparing medication in the pediatric unit. Then she tossed it, tip still exposed, into a regular wastebasket. I didn’t see any sharps containers. Outside, I asked a cleaner how the hospital deals with trash. He walked me past the…
If the handbag is indeed going the way of the hat — not an item we need, as a year of quarantine proved, but a flourish, a fillip, a pick-me-up — then Enid Collins, a prolific accessories designer of the last century, was prescient. “Make something good, something with personality, glamorize it like hell, and…