4 Stretches to Combat Too Much Screen Time
These restorative exercises can help you feel better throughout the day.
This Lemon Pie Captures the Feeling of Home
In the decade I spent working in restaurant kitchens, I rarely felt an emotional connection with the food I was cooking. This feeling of distance from the food I encountered here in the United States began almost as soon as I arrived from Nigeria as a young college student. Very few dishes I ate growing…
Love Letter: A Manny’s Love
For Kevin Renn, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, being a 6-foot-tall Black male nanny came with its challenges. But nothing could prepare him for the moment he would have to walk away from the tiny companion who stole his heart. [Like this newsletter? Sign up to receive it in your inbox.] We…
Want To Feel Old? The 2010s Are Already Back
Dries: Rafael Pavarotti; AZ Factory: Peter White; Getty Images; Courtesy of the brands. Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Much nostalgic hay has been made of the revival of Y2K’s and the early aughts’s most fun—or, depending on your perspective, fearsome—trends. From low-rise jeans to velour sweatsuits…
Five-Star, Honey-Glazed Chicken
Can we talk about my colleague Yewande Komolafe for a minute? Her recipes are superb, precisely choreographed dances of flavor and texture. The honey-glazed chicken below is a great example, a five-star recipe that people are loving. I’m thinking of Yewande right now not only because of that chicken, but for her buttery new cornbread…
How to Make Fluffy, Flavorful Mashed Potatoes
In his poem “Digging,” the Irish poet Seamus Heaney describes the sensation of holding potatoes as “loving their cool hardness in our hands.” That “cool hardness” is the start to a proper mash, which should end with potatoes that taste deeply of themselves but avoid becoming pasty. To preserve those tastes, I decided to try…
The Manny Diaries
Chapter 1: This job is hard. Chapter 2: Leaving it is harder.
Julian Assange Will Marry Stella Moris in London Prison
LONDON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who is fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges, has been granted permission to marry in London in the prison where he has been held since 2019. The news that Mr. Assange would be allowed to wed his fiancée, Stella Moris, in Belmarsh Prison was announced…
He Wanted the Relationship More Than the Job
When Andrew Katz decided to accept a job in Washington in the summer of 2015, Marysa Greenawalt, his girlfriend of eight months, was concerned about being in a long-distance relationship. But not for herself. “I think early on, because Andrew doesn’t have a relationship history, I wasn’t sure how he would end up feeling about…
Her Persistence Paid Off
Four years ago, Barbara Delgado received a text message from Giovanni Rivera asking who she was. “I was partying like a crazy person and had so many numbers I didn’t know who she was,” said Mr. Rivera, 40, who at the time was separated from his first wife and enjoying the bachelor life. “I met…