When Sydney Cox, 21, arrived on the University of Texas’s Austin campus in fall 2021, she was eager to find her people. During the worst of the pandemic, she had spent her freshman year attending classes over Zoom. So when she returned for her sophomore year, she was craving connection. That fall, she ticked all…
Left: Dress, earrings, necklace, $2,150, sandals, $790, Dior. Right: Jumpsuit, $4,100, earrings, necklace, $2,150, ring, $530, sandals, Dior.Dolly Devi Where you might see stitches, Maria Grazia Chiuri sees a language. Specifically, “a language of women.” The painstaking work that they have been doing in domestic spaces, without fanfare or recognition, is like an oral history…
The story still resonates: More than 60 years ago, Los Angeles police officers were routinely harassing the gay and transgender people who gathered at Cooper Do-nuts, a 24-hour spot in the city’s seedy gay circuit known as the Run. Then one evening in May 1959, some fed-up drag queens, hustlers and other customers pushed back,…
On a Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan, a man and a woman nestled closely beside each other on a bench in Washington Square Park. As the man leaned over and began gently massaging the woman’s upper thigh, she stabbed at the small bowl of mixed fruit in her lap with a fork and began to feed…
Sisters Audrey Findlay, 75, and Barbara Rowe, 63, start every weekday with an 8 a.m. phone call. An hour or so later, they head to work together at Findlay Rowe, the gift shop they opened 12 years ago. (Previously, they worked at the same health care company for 13 years, where Ms. Findlay was the…
In Twillingate, I signed on with Mr. Boyd, who runs a 28-foot, 12-passenger aluminum boat named the Silver Bullet, which he deftly maneuvered into close enough range that we could see the turquoise underbelly of a tabular iceberg. The white above-water mass was laced with lines of a rich royal-blue color, which were essentially narrow…
I have a trip planned for summer — half in cities and half in the countryside, walking every day. I’m planning to buy new shoes for the trip. I have bulky gym sneakers, but I’m looking for a more stylish alternative, particularly for city wear. What should I look for? — Melinda, Far Hills, N.J.…
A company that developed a blood test that detects dozens of types of cancer has acknowledged that about 400 of its customers were mistakenly told last month that they might have the disease. The company, Grail, said in an emailed statement on Sunday that a vendor it works with had sent hundreds of letters with…
Rectal cancer researchers have pulled off a daunting feat, demonstrating in a large clinical trial that patients do just as well without radiation therapy as with it. The results, revealed Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and in a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, could give…
As for the rest of the week. … Monday I love the nuance of Alexa Weibel’s lemony pea and spinach soup, with its grassy flavors of celery, leeks and vermouth that inch up to but never overpower the sweetness of the peas and spinach. Make sure to read the notes our subscribers have made on…