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SENSORY OVERLOAD
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SENSORY OVERLOAD

A wild Danish restaurant combines avant-garde dining with immersive theatre.

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10+ mins  |
September 30, 2024
The Football Bro - Pat McAfee brings a casual new style to ESPN.
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The Football Bro - Pat McAfee brings a casual new style to ESPN.

If, on a cool weekend morning in autumn, you happen to be watching “College GameDay,” on ESPN, don’t worry about figuring out which of the broadcasters behind the improbably long desk is Pat McAfee. He’s the one with the roast-pork tan, his hair cut high and tight, likely tieless among his more businesslike colleagues. The rest of the onair crew—Lee Corso, Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, and, newly, the former University of Alabama coach Nick Saban—tend to look and dress and talk like participants in an old-school Republican-primary debate. McAfee, though, favors windowpane checks on his jackets and a slip of chest poking out from behind his two or three open buttons. If the others are politicians, he’s the cool-coded megachurch pastor who sometimes acts as their spiritual adviser.

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6 mins  |
September 23, 2024
The Dark Time. - On the Arctic border of Russia and Norway, an espionage war is emerging.
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The Dark Time. - On the Arctic border of Russia and Norway, an espionage war is emerging.

On the Arctic border of Russia and Norway, an espionage war is emerging. The point of contact between NATO and Russia's nuclear stronghold is the small town of Kirkenes. For years, Russia has treated the area as a laboratory, testing intelligence and influence operations before replicating them across Europe.

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September 16, 2024
MIRROR IMAGES
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MIRROR IMAGES

‘A Different Man” and The Substance.”

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6 mins  |
September 23, 2024
OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY
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OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

Proximity to wealth proves perilous in Rumaan Alam’ novel Entitlement.”

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9 mins  |
September 23, 2024
EYES WIDE SHUT
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EYES WIDE SHUT

How Monet shared a private world.

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September 23, 2024
WITH THE MOSTEST
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WITH THE MOSTEST

The very rich hours of Pamela Harriman.

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September 23, 2024
HUGO HAMILTON AUTOBAHN
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HUGO HAMILTON AUTOBAHN

On the Autobahn outside Frankfurt. November. The fields were covered in a thin sheet of snow.

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September 23, 2024
TRY IT ON
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TRY IT ON

How Law Roach reimagined red-carpet style.

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September 23, 2024
SORRY I'M NOT YOUR CLOWN TODAY
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SORRY I'M NOT YOUR CLOWN TODAY

Bowen Yang's trip to Oz, by way of conversion therapy and S..N.L.”

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September 23, 2024
LET'S HAVE A LONG TALK ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP JUST BEFORE BED!
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LET'S HAVE A LONG TALK ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP JUST BEFORE BED!

Babe, are you nodding off? I know we’re both exhausted after a long day, a dinner party at which you made a three-word comment that left me feeling like you don’t know me at all, and the subsequent ninety-minute fight that culminated in a tentative truce.

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3 mins  |
September 23, 2024
JOY RIDE
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JOY RIDE

Grant Petersen wants to preserve the craft, and delight, of cycling.

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September 23, 2024
Drug of Choice - The natural world contains many billions of potential medications. The question is how to find the ones that work.
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Drug of Choice - The natural world contains many billions of potential medications. The question is how to find the ones that work.

AI. is transforming the way medicines are made. Bacteria produce numerous molecules that could become medicines, but most of them aren’t easily identified or synthesized with the technology that exists today. A small percentage of them, however, can be constructed by following instructions in the bacteria’s DNA. Burian helped me search the sequence for genes that looked familiar enough to be understandable but unfamiliar enough to produce novel compounds. We settled on a string of DNA that coded for seven linked amino acids, the same number found in vancomycin. Then Burian introduced me to Robert Boer, a synthetic chemist who would help me conjure our drug candidate.

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September 09, 2024
Screams from a Marriage
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Screams from a Marriage

‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.”

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6 mins  |
September 16, 2024
Fly with Me
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Fly with Me

The children’s books of Katherine Rundell.

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September 16, 2024
The Mystery of Pain
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The Mystery of Pain

Garth Greenwell’s novel of extreme affliction and ordinary happiness.

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9 mins  |
September 16, 2024
The Show Must Go On
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The Show Must Go On

What if Ronald Reagan’ Presidency never really ended?

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September 16, 2024
LAST COFFEEHOUSE ON TRAVIS
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LAST COFFEEHOUSE ON TRAVIS

For a few months, I stayed with my aunt's friend in Midtown, back when she could still afford to live there.

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September 16, 2024
Tales from the New World
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Tales from the New World

The novelist Richard Powers considers our changing earth.

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September 16, 2024
Land of the Flea
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Land of the Flea

What America 1s buying and selling.

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September 16, 2024
The Post-Moral Age
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The Post-Moral Age

If conscience is merely a biological artifact, must we give up on goodness?

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September 16, 2024
How We Got the Story
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How We Got the Story

This five-part series, which includes this three-part series on how we got the story, is the result of a two-year investigation, involving dozens of legal filings, scores of interview requests, several interviews, innumerable Zoom meetings, and five 311 calls.

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3 mins  |
September 16, 2024
People of the Magazine
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People of the Magazine

Jewish Currents wants to criticize Israel while holding on to Jewishness.

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September 16, 2024
AFFINITY COMEDY
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AFFINITY COMEDY

The state of the Netflix standup special.

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6 mins  |
September 09, 2024
DUTY DANCING
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DUTY DANCING

How Seamus Heaney wrote his way through a war.

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September 09, 2024
DESPERATELY SEEKING
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DESPERATELY SEEKING

The supreme contradictions of Simone Weil.

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10+ mins  |
September 09, 2024
WILD THING
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WILD THING

MJ Lenderman resists the smoothing, neutering effects of technology.

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9 mins  |
September 09, 2024
LUCK OF THE DRAW
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LUCK OF THE DRAW

Nate Silver argues that poker can help us game our uncertain world.

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September 09, 2024
GREEN SLEEVES
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GREEN SLEEVES

“What I want to know,” the woman said to the therapist, “is why the voices always say mean, terrible things.

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September 09, 2024
EVERY OBITUARY'S FIRST PARAGRAPH
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EVERY OBITUARY'S FIRST PARAGRAPH

Alfred T. Alfred, whose invention of the plastic fastener that affixes tags to clothing upended the tag industry and made him one of America’s youngest multimillionaires—until he lost his plastic fastener fortune in a 1993 game of badminton, as depicted in the Lifetime original movie “Bad Minton”— died on Saturday. He was eighty-one.

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September 09, 2024