2022 is coming to an end, and that means one thing: Time to celebrate a year of reading! Over at the Book Review, we’ve already announced our 10 Best Books of 2022 and our 100 Notables list; this week, our genre columnists are sharing their best-of-the-year lists. Now we want to hear from you. We…
The People’s Choice Awards is the only major awards show in which the prizes are decided by online votes from the public — and the categories cover everything from TV shows to talk show hosts and podcasts to social celebrities. Something of a curtain raiser for the Hollywood awards season, its red (or in this…
As a freshman at Princeton eight years ago, Vincent Po came to dread introductions. Many of the students he met there were prodigies, patent holders, jet-setting heirs and heiresses to the global elite. Whenever conversations inevitably turned back to Mr. Po, an engineering major from Edmond, Okla., his peers’ curiosity usually dried up after a…
Kare rice is for celebrating, and kare rice is a current for living, but mostly kare rice is for lunch. Seasoned lightly (or heavily), served alongside accouterments (or solo), the dish is wildly accessible. It can be cooked by the most experienced chefs or beginners just finding their way in the kitchen. It’s a meal…
As the story goes, a long time ago in Bavaria, beer underwent a transformation. Dark ale turned into a paler, gold-hued drink, and the beverage grew much more common around the time when a ducal edict restricted brewing to the winter months. The lager, as the new beer was called, had begun its journey to…
Covax has had to renegotiate its contracts with four suppliers of vaccines, to reduce them by between 400 and 600 million doses. Four hundred million doses from Pfizer that were coming as a donation from the United States government have been converted into future options available in 2023. “We did not massively overbuy,” Dr. Berkley…
Juul Labs announced on Tuesday that it had agreed to settle about 5,000 lawsuits in a Northern California court case for an undisclosed sum, resolving one more legal battle over its sale and marketing of e-cigarettes blamed for the teenage vaping crisis. The proposed agreement on the multidistrict litigation would wrap up personal injury, consumer…
In other words, Ms. Alley’s public weight loss had become a redemption narrative, a story of sins atoned for, excesses restrained. That skintight body stocking layered under her bikini said it all: Her flesh would be displayed for scrutiny and subjected to all necessary restraints and compression in order to achieve the correct silhouette. Maintaining…
Diamonds are definitely a girl’s best friend, but a watch may be her best investment. Kristen Shirley recognizes that the world of watches is one shrouded in mystery and filled with machismo that makes buying a watch daunting if you’re new to the game. Shirley, an ELLE alum and industry veteran, set out to lift…
Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shop, a narrow, anachronistic lunch counter on lower Fifth Avenue, went up for sale several times over the years. Each time, its regulars reacted the way you would if an aged relative was rushed to the hospital. This was understandable. Eisenberg’s was getting up there in years. Under one name or another, it…