How to Style the Best Ballet Flats for Fall, According to an Expert
Courtesy of retailers It’s time to dust off your dancing shoes, because—believe it or not—this season is all about the ballet flat. The seemingly simple shoe has been on hiatus in recent years, but it’s officially returned as one of fall’s top shoe trends (although if you’re Kate Moss, you already know that it never…
A Star-Studded Goodbye to All That
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive,” the actress Vanessa Redgrave said on Wednesday evening, speaking from a lectern at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she was accompanied by her son-in-law, the movie star Liam Neeson. “We try to keep them…
A Pesto for Every Pantry and Mood
I don’t worry too much about my food obsessions, which fade in and out all year long. They have a way of naturally sorting themselves out: The habit will become too expensive to sustain (I’m thinking of the boxes of stretchy, wrinkly, extremely satisfying yuba noodles that I buy and want to eat constantly!). Or…
How to Become a Better Cook
One of my favorite episodes of “This American Life” begins with a conversation between the host Ira Glass and the culinary griot and author Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor. In the episode, Mr. Glass decides to test Ms. Smart-Grosvenor’s claim that she can tell when chicken is done frying by simply listening to the oil. He plays recordings…
A Baltimore Hotel With Four-Poster Beds and Flamingos Aplenty
Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we share things we’re eating, wearing, listening to or coveting now. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday. And you can always reach us at tlist@nytimes.com. Visit This In Maryland, a Hotel Pays Homage to Its…
Why Omicron Might Stick Around
Where is Pi? Last year, the World Health Organization began assigning Greek letters to worrying new variants of the coronavirus. The organization started with Alpha and swiftly worked its way through the Greek alphabet in the months that followed. When Omicron arrived in November, it was the 13th named variant in less than a year.…
A Renaissance for the Italian Rainbow Cookie
An Artist’s Debut Furniture Collection Comes With Sculpted Hands and Eyeballs After working for three decades with gold and oxidized silver, the Brooklyn-based artist and jewelry maker Darcy Miro experienced a revelation with a fistful of clay during a visit to a Fort Greene ceramics studio in 2019. “So many years of burning myself and…
Fashion for the ‘Lean Out’ Era
Some cosmic joke must be afoot, because while I’m on the phone with Sarah Jaffe, Sheryl Sandberg announces she’s stepping down from her powerful perch as the COO of Meta. The on-the-nose death knell of the Lean In era is appropriate, because Jaffe and I are having an extremely real conversation about women and work.…