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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. Few people in New York City understand pasta…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first enclosed shopping mall appeared in the United States in 1956, in Southdale, outside Minneapolis. The photographer Stephen DiRado was born a year later, and came of age as Southdale’s…

State of the Union: If the once mighty British state is unable to restore public order, perhaps targeted counter-force from the public will restore equilibrium. If you have not seen the bloodcurdling video from Trinity College, Cambridge, you should. Everyone…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In her short story “Five Signs of Disturbance,” Lydia Davis writes of a woman who is “frightened”: She cannot always decide whether what seems to her a sign of disturbance should…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It is more or less unheard of, in American life, for anyone, let alone a woman, to become globally famous as an octogenarian. That it happened to Iris Apfel, the inimitable…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story We don’t traffic in rumors, but, if we did, there’d be plenty to choose from. If you were cruising the Internet last week, you may have come across an urgent appeal…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Michael SchulmanStaff 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. Is it…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When “Star Trek: The Next Generation” premièred, in 1987, a newspaper referred to its leading man as an “unknown British Shakespearean actor.” Patrick Stewart was already forty-seven and had spent fourteen…

The conflict between democracy and competing sets of morality is a story for our times. On International Women’s Day, it is the tradition of modern women to grumble about men. Permit me to join them: My grievance is with the…

The era of reenchantment through “conscious” machines is upon us. The Economist’s report on Google Gemini reads like the set-up for a joke: “It all started with black Vikings and Asian Nazis.” Then the magazine turned serious on the waywardly…