“The Bishop’s Wife” was received positively outside church channels, including a review by Janet Maslin in The Times. HuffPost asked Ms. Harrison to write a column about Mormonism. She did, and her essays drew the attention of a group called the Strengthening Church Members Committee, she said. Ms. Harrison’s local bishop called her in to…
Odds are the world of capital-F fashion never gave a moment’s thought to Jimmy Buffett, the bard of Margaritaville, who died on Friday at 76. Yet the truth is the undisputed king of easy-listening yacht rock probably exerted as much influence on style as any designer that ever sent a model down a runway in…
The Canadian government is warning L.G.B.T.Q. travelers to the United States that they may be affected by a series of recently enacted state laws that restrict transgender and gay people. Global Affairs Canada, the foreign affairs department, added a brief notice on Tuesday to a long list of travel warnings involving the United States that…
Early afternoon, late summer. Humid, 83 degrees. The cicadas were whirring outside. I closed my laptop, got up from the desk in my home office and went to the bedroom. I lay down and began flipping through “The Church of Baseball,” a book by the screenwriter and director Ron Shelton about the making of his…
“No llores”, me dijo. “Eres estadounidense”. Oía eso a menudo, lo privilegiada que era por ser estadounidense. Mis compañeros de clase ni siquiera sabían que tenían tarjeta de seguridad social, pero mi madre había enmarcado la mía como si fuera una reliquia familiar. Su fe religiosa y su determinación de triunfar en Estados Unidos no…
In July, Tashea Channell Younge, a private chef and caterer from New York City, flew to Los Angeles, all expenses paid, to cook a private dinner in a luxurious kitchen for 15 people. She then cooked for the N.F.L. wide receiver Noah Brown and some teammates. Later that month, she was back in New York…
A four-line letter, signed by the attending physician of Congress and released by Senator Mitch McConnell on Thursday, suggested that his recent spells of speechlessness were linked to “occasional lightheadedness” perhaps brought on by his recovery from a concussion last winter or “dehydration.” But seven neurologists, relying on what they described as unusually revealing video…
“Slow-moving, slow-talking, with a melancholy sense of humor, my lover was in many ways my ideal of a man,” writes Maxine Swann in this week’s Modern Love essay. “So when we were told to imitate a man in my drag king workshop, he was the person who came to mind.” Need some Labor Day listening?…
“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see,” wrote English critic Samuel Johnson at the height of the Grand Tour’s popularity. (So much for #FOMO being a modern invention.) For young Europeans of means in the…
This article is part of our Design special section about new interpretations of antique design styles. Tabloid newspapers and television dramas have sharpened our appetites for horror stories about family businesses, of Machiavellian parents seated on the thrones of their capitalist empires manipulating their power-mad children like chess pawns. While there has yet to be…