Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the September 16, 2024, Fall Books special issue, Mark Ulriksen painted a woman, alone, surrounded by cats and happily engrossed in reading—an example of the “childless cat…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “I think all the Pythons are nuts in some way,” Eric Idle once wrote, “and together we make one completely insane person.” That insane entity, the comedy supergroup Monty Python, convened…
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. I don’t always like going to restaurants when…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The ferry ride from Rockland, Maine, to Vinalhaven takes a little more than an hour, and on a clear, bright July day, half of the passengers decide to sit in an…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Of everything in my life, I have given the most while receiving the least from the New York Jets. I was a season-ticket holder, via my dad, starting at four years…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Black,” as in the capitalized identifier for the people, is everywhere. Is there not a strange air to its ubiquity? A feeling of religiosity? The writer publishing in the North American…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Every great movie has its origin not in a story but in an idea. In 1967, David Hoffman, a twenty-five-year-old independent filmmaker in New York at a time when the calling…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “I had a long way to go with wasps and hornets,” Tawnya Kiernan told me, as her husband, Mike Kiernan, drove us north along Vermont’s iconic Route 100, past the ski…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Helen ShawStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Catching the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For me, the ur-story of humankind’s interaction with other animals is the one that comes early in the Book of Genesis. God parades each species before Adam in a long and…