“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…
I love this time of year, when summer produce is at its glorious best, even though I know it won’t last much longer. Its end brings ripe peppers of all sorts, in various shades of orange and scarlet, sweet from a season in the sun and far more delicious than the hothouse types could ever…
When Chelsea Hirschhorn organized a summer gathering in July at her house in Amagansett, N.Y., she made sure to include one party trick: pottery wheels. She hosted 15 adults for a ceramics class, where they sipped cocktails while spinning the wheels on her deck, shaping cups and bowls out of clay, followed by a paella…
The nation’s most thinly staffed nursing homes would be required to hire more workers under new rules proposed on Friday by the Biden administration, the greatest change to federal nursing home regulations in three decades. The proposed standard was prompted by the industry’s troubled performance earlier in the coronavirus pandemic, when 200,000 nursing home residents…
This article is part of our Design special section about new interpretations of antique design styles. One might describe Andrew Trotter’s passion for Puglia, in southern Italy, as a slow burn. The British-born, Barcelona-based designer first visited the region, which forms the heel of Italy’s geographic boot, about a decade ago. His close friend Carlo…
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In the waning days of summer, taking the Cooking newsletter out for a spin can feel a bit like speed dating. Who’s filling in for Sam and Melissa? Is it Julia? Priya? Mia? Today, at the start of a long weekend that brings an end to vacation season, I’ll be your date. Not to hurt…
So far, 24 states have eliminated sales taxes on period products that have been criticized as discriminatory.