The rapid evolution of the coronavirus into an alphabet soup of subvariants presents a vexing challenge to health officials: They must make far-reaching policy decisions based on little biological certainty of which viral variants will be dominant this fall or winter. The Food and Drug Administration said at the end of June that it would…
So Jony Ive, the former Apple chief design officer and consultant, and the man most responsible for the visual allure of Apple products — the man who helped transform computers and phones into objects of desire, who made them more than mere vectors of functionality, but rather badges of identity — and his erstwhile employer…
“Look at that caterpillar,” Andrew J. Brand said one afternoon, as we passed a hummocky old bottlebrush buckeye shrub in my garden. What caterpillar, I thought, quickly training my eyes in the direction of his gaze rather than embarrassing myself by acknowledging that I hadn’t noticed anything. What he had spied looked to me like…
Timothy Hale had high hopes for this summer. “Last summer was a tease,” said the 29-year-old hairstylist and freelance photographer, who goes by Tim Hell professionally. “I was hoping this would be the summer I could finally have fun.” After moving to New York City from Baltimore in February 2021, then finding himself cooped up…
I developed a chocolate-cake recipe in honor of her. Lizzy died of pancreatic cancer in 2019, foreshadowed by the stomach pain she talked about in some of her later videos. I never met her in person, but I texted her almost every day for years. She was one of my best friends. She had even…
Have you ever been on a date in a bizarre or unexpected location? Maybe you crossed the Atlantic Ocean together on a cargo ship. Or perhaps you wound up on the side of a mountain. Or a restaurant after hours. The Modern Love Podcast wants to hear about your unconventional date spot. What led you…
The pandemic’s devastating impact on drug overdose deaths in the United States hit people of color the hardest, with rates among young Black people rising the most sharply, according to a federal report that was released on Tuesday and that analyzed overdose data by race, age and income. Overall, overdose deaths jumped 30 percent from…
The Gotliebs moved often: to Sicily, followed by several years in Trieste, Italy; Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; Santiago, Cuba; and Windsor, Ontario. After Mr. Gotlieb retired, they settled in San Francisco, where Ann took art classes and worked as a medical transcriber. She took her first psychedelic trip in the early 1960s, at Golden Gate Park…
I like to say that New York City is famously a beach town. It certainly has more beach access than where I grew up — landlocked metro Atlanta; that you can get to most of these beaches by subway, bus, bike or ferry is even better. You don’t need the help of someone who knows their…
Among the Ivy After a terrible year (I was attacked in my home then suffered through a difficult divorce), my elderly parents visited and helped me pull the ivy that had swallowed my backyard. My father said, “Don’t let that take over again, Irene.” Ten years later, while grappling with stubborn regrowth, I found dad’s…