After cooking three meals day after day for an entire year, no one feels like spending hours in the kitchen whipping up an Easter feast, but eating handfuls of chocolate eggs and jelly beans doesn’t feel quite right either. These easy Easter dinner recipes, most of which come together in an hour or less, are…
Bats, humans, monkeys, minks, big cats and big apes — the coronavirus can make a home in many different animals. But now the list of potential hosts has expanded to include mice, according to an unnerving new study. Infected rodents pose no immediate risk to people, even in cities like London and New York, where…
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…