EATING HAS ALWAYS carried risk. “This is an act that can be exquisitely pleasurable, but also frightening; an act that nourishes, at the same time as it increases the chances of death or illness by toxins and microorganisms,” the psychology professor Paul Rozin writes in his 1999 essay “Food Is Fundamental, Fun, Frightening, and Far-Reaching.”…
You might know fashion fixtures like Giovanna Engelbert and Caroline Sieber for their presence in front rows, at haute dinners, and on red carpets. But they’ve recently found a way to make another venue runway-ready: the mountaintops, where Swarovski creative director Engelbert, for one, has snapped herself showing off high-flying ski outfits. (She even shared…
Fashion Week is back in full force, and there’s a lot to see. Blink (or scroll too fast on Instagram) and you’ll miss the details: tiny bags, tall shoes, feathered hats, leather capes and diamond dog collars. So as part of a new series, Wow Moment, we’ll spotlight things we saw on the runways that…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good 60,000 books must be in want of a very big house. At some point in the mid-1980s, Otto Penzler, the indefatigable founder and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop, the Manhattan store specializing in fictitious tales of crime and espionage and whodunits…
Ruth Jeffers, who owns Jeffers, the animal supplies retailer, said she had sold out of ivermectin paste on her website this year. After she restocked with more expensive versions, those tubes sold out, too. So this spring, she limited new customers to five tubes. Partly driven by the demand, she raised prices for Jeffers-branded ivermectin,…
Facebook has become more aggressive at enforcing its coronavirus misinformation policies in the past year. But the platform remains a popular destination for people discussing how to acquire and use ivermectin, a drug typically used to treat parasitic worms, even though the Food and Drug Administration has warned people against taking it to treat Covid-19.…
Piper, a 17-year-old transgender girl, says she knows she is fortunate. She lives just outside Atlanta, with a supportive family and two rescued leopard geckos, Saturn and Juno. Queer Med, a private gender clinic, is a short drive away; two years ago, she started a regimen of gender-affirming hormones there, after five months of asking…
Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago chilling halfway between the Nordic country and the North Pole, is known as much for its rugged beauty as its remoteness. From the village of Longyearbyen, visitors and roughly 2,400 residents can appreciate the stark terrain around the fjord known as Adventfjorden. But the beauty of this Arctic inlet conceals messier,…
For perhaps the first time in a long time, Carly Cushnie feels free. Dressed in all black against the backdrop of neon spotlights and glittering crystal embellishments of the outrageously colorful American Girl Doll Place in New York City, the fashion designer seems almost anonymous. Nearly a year after she was forced to shut down…
From 1850 until the 1920s, highly decorative Majolica ceramics were nothing short of a craze. Makers were initially inspired by Italian Renaissance maiolica and French Palissy ware, and the molded earthenware — made in England and the United States — was fanciful yet practical, whimsical yet drawn from nature. An exhibition of 380 pieces on…