Lifestyle & Property

Kadir Nelson’s “Rideout”

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Biking figures prominently in both our personal experiences of growth and in the popular imagination. Learning to ride a bike is often a child’s first taste of independence; the phrase “It’s…

Sublime Hummus, Just a Bus Ride Away

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. At three-thirty on a Tuesday afternoon, in the…

The Problem of Nature Writing

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Bible is a foundational text in Western literature, ignored at an aspiring writer’s hazard, and when I was younger I had the ambition to read it cover to cover. After…

How “Winter Kills” Nails the Paranoid Style

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Conspiracy theories are faith-based history, and “Winter Kills,” a 1979 neo-noir, riffs on a scriptural pillar of this realm—the assassination of President John F. Kennedy—with freewheeling speculations that feel both heretical…