It was March 1827 and Ludwig van Beethoven was dying. As he lay in bed, wracked with abdominal pain and jaundiced, grieving friends and acquaintances came to visit. And some asked a favor: Could they clip a lock of his hair for remembrance? The parade of mourners continued after Beethoven’s death at age 56, even…
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it seeks to break up the network that has long run the nation’s organ transplant system, as part of a broader modernization effort intended to shorten wait times and reduce the number of patients who die while waiting. More than 100,000 people in the United States…
Hello all, New York Times Food reporter Julia Moskin here filling in for the vacationing Melissa Clark this week. (Next week will bring Tejal Rao to the dance floor, and then Melissa will be back.) Ramadan begins tonight in the United States, a holy month of fasting for Muslims that culminates with Eid al-Fitr on…
Plus, any culture that has just produced “MILF Manor” is going through something Freudian. ‘You’re Working With People’s Fantasies’ In her 1981 book about psychoanalysis, “The Impossible Profession,” Janet Malcolm interviews a pseudonymous analyst. “The insights of psychoanalysis are never taken for granted from one generation to the next,” he says. “Each generation has to…
I started dating a new guy two months ago. Things have been going very well. I also have $5,000 in credit card debt that I am working hard to pay down. The subject came up when he asked me why I always use a debit card. (I don’t want to add a penny to my…
The babydoll dress swept through the spring 2023 runways like no other silhouette. From Loewe’s dynamic striped wonders to Versace’s Courtney Love-esque little nothings, loose-fitting, pint-sizes dresses with major volume quickly became the garment on everyone’s minds. And then, there was M3GAN, 2023’s lifelike AI doll horror heroine who proudly sports a pale pink silk…
HONG KONG — It’s hungry business, walking around art fairs and gallery hopping. But the locals know where to find the tastiest morsels and where to kick back and relax. The chef Olivier Elzer, the Young Soy Gallery founder Shivang Jhunjhnuwala and the artist Tang Kwok Hin are all longtime Hong Kongers; here are their…
One sunny Saturday in the middle of the island of Barbados, in the eastern Caribbean, among former sugar cane plantations, I found myself eating fried sea cat in the yard of a rum shop called De Thirsty Lizard in the village of Bridgefield. Remixed versions of Rihanna songs and reggae bounced across the gravel courtyard…
While there’s no doubt that ballet flats are everywhere right now, the definition of what constitutes a ballet flat is somewhat elastic. Here are some helpful parameters to keep in mind when looking for a pair of your own: They are roughly the shape of ballet slippers with a round toe. (This seems obvious, but…
When a visiting friend asked if I wanted to go on a run in Philadelphia, I did a lot of planning. Not just our route, but where to go to the bathroom. It did not go well. I took the rapid-transit PATCO Speedline, which doesn’t have bathrooms on trains. The station I left from in…