LONDON — The quiet of January offers me a moment to look back at the weeks that came before and make heads or tails of them all. I am particularly interested in traditions: how they almost sneak up on us and surprise us, despite our misguided assumption that we are fully in control. And I…
Disagreements between partners are unavoidable, and many believe that they are a normal, healthy part of any relationship. Nicole Walker, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, shares why she doesn’t mind bickering with her husband about everything from global warming to whose turn it is to feed the baby, and how the arguments…
Five people in the United States died from rabies last year, the highest number in a decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. Three of those deaths, including that of a 7-year-old child, involved direct contact with bats and occurred over a five-week period starting in late September. The deaths occurred…
The intermarriage of fashion and music, streetwear and luxury, mass and elite, is about to reach its final frontier. The much rumored collaboration between the power mononyms, cultural influencers and BFFs Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Demna (formerly known as Demna Gvasalia, the creative director of Balenciaga) has come to fruition with the…
The Times’s most-read story of 2021 is one that you might be familiar with: an article about languishing from Well. I turned to the illustrator Manshen Lo to capture that feeling of pandemic blah.
Happy New Year-ish and welcome back to the workweek routine. Blessedly I spent the holidays with my in-laws, who cooked just about all of our meals and also fed my children. Such luxury! As a result, I returned to regular life having completely forgotten what my young kids will eat for dinner, aside from a…
Cooking a big pot of beef, beans and spices for hours may be one of the most traditional ways to make chili. But it’s not the only way, and it’s not what I’ve been doing lately as my beef consumption continues to plummet. To my mind, once you have all those beans and onions and…
Reports about dual infection with the flu virus and the coronavirus have been making sensational headlines recently. Last week Israel confirmed its first case of “flurona,” in an unvaccinated woman, followed by a growing number of cases in children in the United States. None were seriously ill, but the name “flurona” stuck. “It sounds like…
Welcome to Clued In, a column that will give you insight into some of The New York Times Crossword clues and answers. ‘Italian cheese city,’ five letters: Parma. The word “Parma’‘ has been used in 65 New York Times crossword puzzles. It has been clued in several different ways, including “Toscanini’s birthplace” and “Cheese city.”…
“The mandate is aimed directly at protecting the unvaccinated from their own choices,” she wrote. “Vaccines are freely available, and unvaccinated people may choose to protect themselves at any time.” The Coronavirus Pandemic: Key Things to Know Card 1 of 6 In the Supreme Court case, National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor,…