For Kevin Renn, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, being a 6-foot-tall Black male nanny came with its challenges. But nothing could prepare him for the moment he would have to walk away from the tiny companion who stole his heart. [Like this newsletter? Sign up to receive it in your inbox.] We…
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Dries: Rafael Pavarotti; AZ Factory: Peter White; Getty Images; Courtesy of the brands. Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Much nostalgic hay has been made of the revival of Y2K’s and the early aughts’s most fun—or, depending on your perspective, fearsome—trends. From low-rise jeans to velour sweatsuits…
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Can we talk about my colleague Yewande Komolafe for a minute? Her recipes are superb, precisely choreographed dances of flavor and texture. The honey-glazed chicken below is a great example, a five-star recipe that people are loving. I’m thinking of Yewande right now not only because of that chicken, but for her buttery new cornbread…
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In his poem “Digging,” the Irish poet Seamus Heaney describes the sensation of holding potatoes as “loving their cool hardness in our hands.” That “cool hardness” is the start to a proper mash, which should end with potatoes that taste deeply of themselves but avoid becoming pasty. To preserve those tastes, I decided to try…
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LONDON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who is fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges, has been granted permission to marry in London in the prison where he has been held since 2019. The news that Mr. Assange would be allowed to wed his fiancée, Stella Moris, in Belmarsh Prison was announced…
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When Andrew Katz decided to accept a job in Washington in the summer of 2015, Marysa Greenawalt, his girlfriend of eight months, was concerned about being in a long-distance relationship. But not for herself. “I think early on, because Andrew doesn’t have a relationship history, I wasn’t sure how he would end up feeling about…
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Four years ago, Barbara Delgado received a text message from Giovanni Rivera asking who she was. “I was partying like a crazy person and had so many numbers I didn’t know who she was,” said Mr. Rivera, 40, who at the time was separated from his first wife and enjoying the bachelor life. “I met…
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art drew a who’s who of Hollywood stars and artists to its 10th annual Art+Film Gala on Nov. 6; the Gucci-sponsored event honored Amy Sherald, Kehinde Wiley and Steven Spielberg. The literary world gathered at the New York Public Library’s annual gala on Nov. 8.; this year’s Library Lions…
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Contrast that with life on the feed, where each post is a performance informed by the user’s specific and invisible perspective of a platform they don’t totally understand. Chat’s blessing and curse has always been that it’s hard to monetize talking — it would feel, much more than an ad in a feed, like interruption.…
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