Hundreds of thousands of seriously ill coronavirus patients who survive and leave the hospital are facing a new and difficult challenge: recovery. Many are struggling to overcome a range of troubling residual symptoms, and some problems may persist for months, years or even the rest of their lives. Patients who are returning home after being…
Thumbing through old photographs can be a reliable way of evoking nostalgia. And these black-and-white Independence Day photographs, pulled from The New York Times’s archive, offer a potent dose. We see holiday crowds, marches, amusement parks, parades. We see friends and families at the beach and in their backyards. We see communal joy. We see…
The Covid-19 pandemic struck the Caribbean at the height of high season, when snow birds, primarily from the United States, pack the beaches for winter and spring break, and provide the revenue to see resorts and sometimes entire countries through the lull of summer and fall. But in recent years, islands like Puerto Rico and…
Deviled eggs are party food: meant for a crowd and sure to disappear first — before the onion dip, even before the baked Brie. With this current pause in crowded parties, I’ve rethought this assumption. There’s nothing stopping me from deviling three or four eggs as a cocktail snack, or as lunch for the family.…
Courtesy Years ago you despised the Dad sneaker trend, but then you caved. You’re not alone. It took a while for chunky sneakers to catch on after Balenciaga’s iteration gained traction. Now, thanks to subtle options from legacy sportswear brands to bloated designer styles, chunky soles are here to stay . We perused the interwebs…
In late May, as protests against police brutality began to seize American cities, videos of a Black man on horseback wearing a bulletproof vest spread widely on social media. In many of the posts, users suggested that he had stolen a policeman’s horse. But Adam Hollingsworth, a 33-year-old Chicagoan, is no thief. The horse in…
The college sweethearts turned YouTube stars Khadeen and Devale Ellis are pros at pivoting. The married couple, both 36, began dating while they were students at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. After graduation, Mr. Ellis joined the Detroit Lions as a wide receiver and later played for the Cleveland Browns. He later left the N.F.L.…
Welcome. I spent too much time this morning looking around the internet for a Jay McInerney short story that I thought was called “Cigarettes.” (It’s actually called “Smoke,” and you can buy a digital copy if you like, or find it in “How It Ended,” his 2009 collection of stories.) I was interested in revisiting…
Good morning. Happy Canada Day, to those celebrating. In the United States, we’re barreling into the Fourth of July, which will be a strange one this year, no doubt. We’re sick of fireworks, most of us; many can’t gather closely because of the coronavirus; and we’re all in the midst of a difficult, painful reckoning…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageShane Reilly, an artist in Austin, Texas, displayed flags in his front yard, each representing a Texan who died of the coronavirus. The state experienced a new high in cases on Tuesday.Credit…Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times With a resurgence across the South and West, the U.S. hits…