As a liberal, I spend part of every day ridiculing or deploring Republicans. How can one not ridicule and deplore a party that twice nominated Donald Trump as its standard-bearer? (In his case, the term...

Everything is averages and odds. What are the odds of a person known to neighbors as “murder boy” being the last person known to have seen the victims of two murders, set years and miles...

As Russian rulers go, Vladimir Putin was for a long time remarkably un-anti-Semitic. He mingled with Jewish community leaders, lit Hanukkah candles, and, in 2007, the Russian leader even donated a month’s salary toward the...

Queen Latifah is looking resplendent in a multicolored striped halter dress and pink sunglasses. She seems relaxed. Western Europe has been suffering under a severe heat wave over the last week, but here in the...

Fire up the Riva Aquarama and prepare to dance the night away in your best Italian slippers, dazzle in your sparkliest jewels, and dine among the most enchanting table-scapes. George and Amal will have nothing...

The second of nine children in a dynastic surfing family, Jonathan Paskowitz has led a successful career at the top of the sport, at the helm of several surfing-adjacent brands, and in film, nonprofits, and,...

As a thank-you gift for watching her dachshund, my neighbor turned friend Lizzy Koury dropped off a few jars of za’atar from her spice ...

Ever wonder what your dogs do while you’re at work? With Furbo Dog Camera, you’ll get real-time updates about what your pups ...

In 1941, jeweler Fulco di Verdura unveiled his design for the Three Stone Ring. Symbolizing the past, present, and future ...

The end of summer has brought us a gem of a movie about, of all things, the end of summer, and the fraught, uncertain future four best friends ...

A new Eames rocking chair from Herman Miller will run you $745. When I set out with roughly $100 to find a used one for my bedroom ...

Joan Juliet Buck is a skilled storyteller, as anyone who read her memoir ...

Ever since I was young, I knew I was going to do something notable. What I definitely did not know is that said thing would involve L. L. Bean tote bags.Let me explain.Last summer, I...

This is not for anyone who uses, has used, or plans to use the term “hot-girl summer.” Go away, hot girls. Go to Ibiza, go to Mykonos, hop onto Dan Bilzerian’s yacht, have fun with...

The opening tableau of a recent New York Times piece about Pope Francis’s self-described “penitential pilgrimage” through Canada, which concluded this past weekend, captured the atmospherics well. Francis spoke “in a pow wow circle, a...

The Wagatha Christie case—you know, wife of one soccer star accuses wife of another soccer star of leaking posts from her private Instagram account, is then sued by the accused leaker for libel, but ultimately...

‘I think it’s great that I can talk about my sexuality without fear that it’s holding me back,” Ania Magliano riffs in one TikTok video. “It shows society has progressed. The problem is, I now...

A new Eames rocking chair from Herman Miller will run you $745. When I set out with roughly $100 to find a used one for my bedroom ...

How did 2022 become the Summer of Frump? Sun’s out, but buns are not out, and this week Linda Wells joins Ashley and Mike to reveal how and why “granny style” has taken over the...

In her tin-roofed home in Basra, a few hundred feet from the great churn of the Shatt al-Arab River, Shamaa Mustafa blinked as a bead of sweat ran into her eye. On the floor sat...

When Steely Dan released its debut album, Can’t Buy a Thrill, 50 years ago, in 1972, who could have imagined that the band would be a marquee touring act in 2022? But here we are,...

Joan Juliet Buck is a skilled storyteller, as anyone who read her memoir ...

Ever wonder what your dogs do while you’re at work? With Furbo Dog Camera, you’ll get real-time updates about what your pups ...

In 1941, jeweler Fulco di Verdura unveiled his design for the Three Stone Ring. Symbolizing the past, present, and future ...

The end of summer has brought us a gem of a movie about, of all things, the end of summer, and the fraught, uncertain future four best friends ...

When Vivienne Acheampong first auditioned to be in The Sandman, the 10-episode Netflix show based on Neil Gaiman’s comic book series, it was for the role of a grandmother. “They were like, ‘So, this character...

“My friend took me flying once in college when I was 21,” the photographer Jason Hawkes tells me from his home in Oxfordshire, “and the patterns from above—it fascinated me. I started shooting from helicopters...

In any other family, she would surely have taken the “most talented” award in a walk. But Mary Rodgers (1931–2014) was the daughter of Richard Rodgers, the legendary composer, who, in Noël Coward’s inimitable phrase,...

I know it’s summertime and some of you may be looking for foofy beach reads to accompany your all-day rosé on the chaise longue. Not to be unkind, but this column is not for you....

The old saw of asking Daddy what he did in the war is given a hellish new twist in Olivier Guez’s novel, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele. “Dad, what did you do in Auschwitz?,” Rolf...

Waiting tables, that universal professional experience, is like hiding in plain sight. Step through a restaurant’s swinging door to the kitchen and you enter a completely different world—one that hasn’t changed much since the early...

You don’t want to get lost in the statistics, but you do need to know that William Felton Russell won 11 N.B.A. championships with the Boston Celtics in 13 seasons (1957, 1959–66, 1968, 1969) and...

The view from the cabin deck takes in the sandy crescent of Goose Cove, bounded by a boreal forest on either end. A sea breeze, passing through the evergreens, picks up the sweet scent of...

Isaac Mizrahi has been fascinating the public on-screen, onstage, and, most notoriously, on the runways since he launched his eponymous collection in 1987. But unlike many of his compatriots, Mizrahi never takes himself, or his...

‘I think it’s great that I can talk about my sexuality without fear that it’s holding me back,” Ania Magliano riffs in one TikTok video. “It shows society has progressed. The problem is, I now...

As a liberal, I spend part of every day ridiculing or deploring Republicans. How can one not ridicule and deplore a party that twice nominated Donald Trump as its standard-bearer? (In his case, the term...

The old saw of asking Daddy what he did in the war is given a hellish new twist in Olivier Guez’s novel, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele. “Dad, what did you do in Auschwitz?,” Rolf...

Waiting tables, that universal professional experience, is like hiding in plain sight. Step through a restaurant’s swinging door to the kitchen and you enter a completely different world—one that hasn’t changed much since the early...

“My friend took me flying once in college when I was 21,” the photographer Jason Hawkes tells me from his home in Oxfordshire, “and the patterns from above—it fascinated me. I started shooting from helicopters...

The Wagatha Christie case—you know, wife of one soccer star accuses wife of another soccer star of leaking posts from her private Instagram account, is then sued by the accused leaker for libel, but ultimately...