An Extreme Risk of Taking Ozempic: Malnutrition
The diabetes medication has gained attention for its dramatic weight loss effects — but doctors worry that it can go too far.
Love Letter: A Couples Therapist Goes to Couples Therapy
“Clients seek me out specifically because of my direct manner,” Tonya Lester, a psychotherapist, writes in this week’s Modern Love essay. “My friends, and sometimes friends of friends, ask me for advice on how to say hard things and how to initiate painful conversations. They write down what I suggest and use those words verbatim.…
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An Easy Spring Dinner That Shows Off Bulgogi’s Versatility
Just as there is no one right way to simmer up a marinara sauce, nor a single “correct” apple pie, there are myriad recipes for making bulgogi. A classic Korean dish of beef marinated in some combination of soy sauce, sugar, garlic and ginger, the meat is then grilled until the sauce caramelizes and condenses,…
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These Dinners Make Being Green Quite Easy (and Fast)
This is the exact moment every year when spring takes hold on New York Times Cooking, and everyone lunges for green recipes that mirror the season. Green pizzas, pastas and salads abound; green sauces are unstoppable. I stock asparagus in my fridge and eat it with whatever I’m cooking (though really it’s best with runny…
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The Young Designer Making ‘Seriously Unhinged’ Sustainable Fashion
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. They say to never meet your heroes, but for Emma Gage, a chance encounter with Betsey Johnson at the Met was what helped launch her fashion career. Gage went up to the designer, who was renewing her museum membership, to tell…
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A Meal in Which Bread Was the Starter, the Main and the Dessert
In 18th-century Britain, white bread was so coveted, and so considerably more expensive than brown bread — it required more grain and time to produce, as the wheat germ and bran had to be removed by hand — that bakers would sometimes add chalk and powdered bone to their flour to make it paler. Since…
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He Lets His Clothes Do the Peacocking for Him
A sprinkling of tiny tattoos covers Christian Cowan’s fingers and arms: a pale stag, a walrus, a sewing needle and the word “intimacy,” so faintly scrawled that it is barely legible. That fine ink is a tell. “I’m an introvert,” Mr. Cowan said over lunch of vegetarian rigatoni at Sant Ambroeus in Greenwich Village last…
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Supreme Court Expected to Decide on Abortion Pill Access: What to Know
WASHINGTON — The future of a commonly used abortion pill is at the center of a pitched legal battle before the Supreme Court, which is poised for the second time in a year to consider a major effort to severely limit access to abortion. The court is expected to decide by Friday night whether to…
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Emma Choi Navigated NPR Layoffs, and College
At Mother of Junk, a thrift emporium in Brooklyn, Emma Choi examined a rubber triceratops and invented a back story for a Miss Piggy figurine. “We should go before I buy something,” she said. Ms. Choi, 23, has built a career out of riffing on weird stuff. Still a few weeks away from her graduation from Harvard,…
DetailsHow Leaning Into Negative Emotions Can Help Your Mental Health
Recent research suggests that while bad feelings can affect your well-being, your perspective on those feelings can play an even bigger role in your mental health.