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Martin Puryear Changes the World Through Wood
[ad_1] It’s an object that shouldn’t have body language, yet it does. And from body language, it’s a quick jump to personality. Those who grew up with Tove Jansson’s Moomins...
When Reading Books Means Business
[ad_1] Every year, the New Yorker’s Money Issue examines a few of the most weird, riveting, and, often, troubling ways in which people pursue great wealth—and spend it. The latest...
The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”
[ad_1] What is the light in “The Brothers Karamazov”?It is the voices. “The Brothers Karamazov” is a novel of voices. Men, women, young, old, rich, poor, foolish, wise: all are...
A Dark Ecologist Warns Against Hope
[ad_1] The two have sparred before. In 2009, they exchanged public letters in the Guardian, circling a question that nags at many eco-minded Westerners: What, in practice, can one do?...
Mark Bittman’s Experiment in Sliding-Scale Fine Dining
[ad_1] By dinnertime, the café had been convincingly transformed into a restaurant, with tea lights twinkling beside wildflower arrangements on exactingly set tables. The food came out slowly as the...
What Do We Want from Our Child Stars?
[ad_1] Still, Master Betty ruled the little province of Parnassus devoted to underage thespians until the advent of Shirley Temple—and it’s some measure of her talent, or maybe of her...
The Real Housewives of Moscow
[ad_1] A trained observer of psychology, Alina had made careful note of the strategies that seemed to work for these gazelle-like young women. For example: “A man values a woman...
Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry’s Teen-Age Dream
[ad_1] Katy Perry is a friend of Bezos and Sánchez and has herself spent time on Koru. In April, she also climbed aboard another vessel associated with the couple, when...
A Superbloom of Daring Theatre Hits New York
[ad_1] In Preston Max Allen’s “Caroline,” directed deftly by David Cromer, a onetime wild child, Maddie (Chloë Grace Moretz), reëngages with her estranged mother, Rhea (Amy Landecker)—the penitent young woman...
