ImageCredit…Illustration by Jonathan Corum/The New York Times and Shannon Lin/The New York Times You’ll have to trust me. It’s more thrilling than it sounds. May 18, 2020 One night, after making this terrifically simple Melissa Clark ginger-scallion chicken dish for dinner, I eyed the leftover hairy scallion butts, laying discarded near the cutting board. On…
ImageCredit…Illustration by Gray Beltran/The New York Times and Tanner Curtis/The New York Times Like Frankenstein’s creature, they trail us across time and terra. Let’s set ourselves free. May 18, 2020 “I wear the chain I forged in life,” the ghost of Jacob Marley once complained to a former co-worker. “I made it link by link,…
ImageCredit…Illustration by Aliza Aufrichtig/The New York Times and Rumsey Taylor/The New York Times By Lesley M. M. Blume Why Super Mario Bros. brought me to tears. May 18, 2020 One evening, a few weeks ago, at 8 p.m., my husband and I put our young daughter to bed as usual. At 8:01 p.m., I was…
ImageCredit…Illustration by Rebecca Lieberman/The New York Times By Brian Keith Jackson Scrolling through my Instagram search page is hope for the future, an opportunity to step outside of my isolation, or at least outside the house. May 18, 2020 I’m in Dakar, Senegal. I haven’t left the house since Feb. 27. The airport isn’t expected…
ImageCredit…Illustration by Shane O’Neill/The New York Times and Adriana Ramic/The New York Times By Aminatou Sow Some people are raising little sourdough bread children. I am learning photography. Learning is learning. May 18, 2020 In a memorable episode of “30 Rock,” Tracy Jordan says: “I’m just going through the classic stages of grief: fear, denial,…
ImageCredit…Illustration by Andrew Sondern/The New York Times By Ross Gay It started with a mask. May 18, 2020 A month or so back, at the beginning of mask wearing out here in Bloomington, Ind., I was taking a walk and a friend pulled up in her little Toyota pickup truck. We chatted a bit from…
When a sprinkling of a reddish rash appeared on Jack McMorrow’s hands in mid-April, his father figured the 14-year-old was overusing hand sanitizer — not a bad thing during a global pandemic. When Jack’s parents noticed that his eyes looked glossy, they attributed it to late nights of video games and TV. When he developed…
The class of 2020 is graduating into an off-kilter world. Ceremonies are canceled and it’s not safe to throw an in-person party. But graduates are still celebrating. And gifts are still in order, though in interviews many graduates acknowledged the country’s economic problems, and did not want to create a stress or burden on their…
Despite performing for more than a decade, and having seven solo albums to her name, the British folk singer-songwriter Laura Marling insists she’s not a natural entertainer. She calls herself the “subtle event” rather than the life of the party. Accordingly, instead of serenading her fans with concerts from her home in London, she has…
If you’re looking for your next binge-watch (and aren’t we all?), add Amazon Prime’s show, Making the Cut to the list. It premiered at the end of March, and the entire first season is now available to stream. If you’re a fan of fashion-competition shows dotted with occasional drama and snarky comments, you’ll whip through…