A previously unpublished piece by Louisa May Alcott, the author best known for her novel “Little Women,” is now available in print for the first time. The piece, “Aunt Nellie’s Diary,” is one of Alcott’s earliest works. She hand-wrote it in a journal in 1849, when she was only 17. The story offers a new…
During a normal week, Jordan Pavlin, the editorial director at Knopf, seldom ate at her desk. Depending on the day, she might be meeting with literary agents over lunch, catching up with an author over an after-work drink, or having a quick bite before a cocktail party for a newly released title. She still doesn’t…
If you’re a fan of both A-Ha and Fendi, you’re in luck. The Italian house just dropped their prefall 2020 collection entitled ‘California Sky’ in collaboration with Guatemalan-American visual artist Joshua Vides. The painterly collection is reminiscent of the Norwegian synth-pop band’s hit music video “Take On Me,” where a cartoonish look runs strong. Much…
On June 1, Tom Ford, the chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, sent a letter to the board about its meeting the next day. He wanted the board to address the Black Lives Matter protests against racial injustice, he said, and systemic racism in the fashion industry. Almost everyone Zoomed in: Michael…
Winter may finally be on its way to Westeros. Eventually. Or not. But all that fans of “A Song of Ice and Fire,” the sweeping fantasy series that led to the HBO hit show “Game of Thrones,” have to go on is the word of George R. R. Martin, its creator. Mr. Martin, who is…
Brianca Hadnot’s high school students in Houston started writing letters the day after George Floyd was killed. “They felt unheard,” Ms. Hadnot, 30, said. “They can’t vote.” As protests gained momentum around the country, she worried about them attending and possibly being tear gassed or shot with rubber bullets. Writing, she said, was another way…
Greg Glassman, the embattled owner of CrossFit who was the subject of a recent article in The New York Times detailing routine sexual harassment of female employees, intends to sell the fitness brand to Eric Roza, according to a message sent to affiliate gym owners by the company’s chief executive, Dave Castro. Mr. Roza is…
Jessie Zhang, an 18-year-old in Northern California, is dying for roller skates. She’s spent hours scouring the internet looking at different skate designs. She has researched toe guards on Depop. And she’s even been picking up extra chores around the house, like doing the dishes, in hopes that her parents will buy her a pair.…
Welcome. What does it mean now, to be “at home”? Not so long ago we nonessential people were quarantined, hiding out from an invisible foe, either circled tight with family or flying solo, peeking out the windows at the scary world without. We awoke at home, spent the day at home, went to bed at…
It can feel as though you’re running an infectious gantlet when using a public bathroom, especially following last week’s news of toilet plume, that cloud of aerosol droplets that can rise nearly three feet and linger long enough to be inhaled by the toilet’s next user, or land on other surfaces of the bathroom. And,…