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Students Kissed Her Feet for Good Luck. Now She’s Missing Her Head.
A replica of the Athena Giustiniani that greeted students at Wells College for more than 150 years was accidentally decapitated…
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Anjana Vasan Just Wants Stanley Tucci to Cook for Her
“Maybe I can engineer it where I work with him, and then he makes me a drink and a bowl…
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At the Royal Ballet, Taking the Measure of Ashton’s Genius
Many remarkable performances fueled the Royal’s mini-festival of ballets by Frederick Ashton, the company’s founding choreographer.
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Gretchen Whitmer Wants a Gen X President — in 2028
Whatever the result of this year’s election, it will most likely be the end of an era. Because of their…
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Is It OK to Secretly Medicate Your Manic Husband?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on marital deception.
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How a Boston Physician Conquered the Thriller Genre
After getting her start by self-publishing, Freida McFadden is now the fastest selling thriller writer in the United States.
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Like Shakespeare’s Sonnets, ‘Practice’ Finds Beauty in Digression
Starring an undergraduate student at Oxford, Rosalind Brown’s debut novel is exquisitely attuned to the thrill and boredom of academic…
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Where Parisians Escape to for Secret Beaches and Oyster Cabanas
A guide to France’s Cap Ferret, with insider tips from Philippe Starck and three other locals.
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An Ode to Gardens That’s Also a Bouquet of Ideas
In her latest book, Olivia Laing makes an impassioned case for the garden — as repository of natural beauty, as…
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A Love Letter to Cricket, the Bookish Child’s Bible
I first encountered Cricket, the literary magazine for children, at the home of my best friend, Elaine. Elaine was the…