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Two Books for a Mental Vacation

Madeleine L’Engle’s domestic memoir; Julie Orringer’s humane short stories

World

No, Xi Jinping Is Not About to Attack Taiwan

To some observers, it may seem like Xi Jinping is itching to unify Taiwan with China. The Chinese president has…

World

The Main Problem With Pedestrian Deaths Isn’t the Pedestrians

I want to talk about two things that have happened since last weekend’s newsletter on pedestrian deaths. One of them…

Food

The Real End of David Chang’s Momofuku Ko Happened Years Ago

The revolutionary tasting-menu restaurant eventually came to resemble the fine-dining titans it tried to dethrone.

Arts

Alessandra Ferri’s Next Act: Running the Vienna State Ballet

Ferri, the star ballerina who was a principal at American Ballet Theater, will run the large Vienna company and its…

Arts

Taylor Swift’s ‘“Slut!”’ and the Evolution of a Pop Star Feminist

The bonus track from “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” revisits a moment when she was carefully calibrating her public transition into adulthood…

Real Estate

Hanging Drapery Is Harder Than You’d Think. But You Can Do It.

When you’re choosing curtains for a room, there are so many things to consider. Jake Arnold, an interior designer in…

Arts

‘The Holdovers’ Review: Three Sad Souls Stranded for Christmas

Alexander Payne’s jaunt to the past, with Paul Giamatti playing a curmudgeonly instructor at a 1970s boarding school, is crackling…

World

Billions of Years Ago, Venus May Have Had a Key Earthlike Feature

A new study makes the case that the solar system’s hellish second planet once may have had plate tectonics that…

Arts

PinkPantheress’s Music Broke the Internet. Up Next? Everything Else.

On a recent September evening at Nickelodeon Universe, the cavernous indoor theme park tucked into an East Rutherford, N.J. mall,…

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