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I Get Paid to Scratch Backs (Yes, Really)

Some people sharpen their pencils before work.... I sharpen my nails.

You're About to See Biba de Sousa Everywhere

Fellow pimple-prone friends, this one's for you.

Rise of the Planet of the Dupes

Do people even care about the \"real\" deal anymore?

Fragrance Is Suddenly That Girl

Perfume is peaking, and we couldn't be more pleased.

The Hottest Club Is Your Couch

Who needs plans when you have content like this?

Ticket for One, Please

The case for a new type of cinematic experience.

Tai Verdes Is Calling...

...and he wanted me to tell you that pillows are for suckers, actually.

5 Exercises to Slow Aging

Get up to speed on what can keep you youthful

How Makeup Artists Do the Holidays

Time to put your party face on! These glam pros are sharing a look they love—and modeling it themselves.

The Enduring Power The Color Purple

It has captivated audiences as a novel, a movie, and a Broadway musical. On the eve of its latest incarnation, a sweeping musical feature film out on Christmas Day, we celebrate Alice Walker's universal saga of resilience and redemption with behind-the-scenes stories from the new book Purple Rising.

THE MOTHER-IN-LAW Survival Guide

Ding-dong, she's here! But fear not-so are we, with advice on managing this singular relationship with grace, humor, and lots of heart.

Who (or What) Do You Need to Thank?

Gratitude isn't just a topic for your annual turkey dinner. It's been scientifically shown to improve your health eating depression, boosting immunity, and lowering stress. These thank-you notes (plus an ode to a heartbreakingly loyal pup) will inspire you to make it a daily practice.

On Everyone's Lips

Carol Rasheed, the head makeup artist on The Color Purple, gives us a peek behind the scenes-and, thanks to her new lipstick collection, a memento.

The Perfect Gift Book for Everyone on Your List

Sumptuous reads that look as lovely on your coffee table as they do on your bedside table.

How to Manage Holiday Stress

Want to avoid family drama this year? Here are three ways to pregame.

Long Live YOU!

A head-to-toe guide to staying strong, sharp, healthy, and happy well into your platinum years.

CARLOS GOFFMÁN, (EL GUAPO) FACT CHECKER

During a period of incarceration scheduled to last fifty years to life, Carlos (El Guapo) Goffmán, the former drug lord, has started a new career as a fact checker and researcher to earn cigarette money in prison. Authorities have looked the other way at Goffmán’s nonobservance of the rule against inmate cell-phone use, but have recorded his end of the calls.

Our Time Is Up Clare Sestanovich

The mirrors reveal when it’s time to clean again. A thin layer of dust on the one in the bed room, toothpaste and fingerprints on the one in the bathroom, which doubles as a cabinet door. All the windows become mirrors at the end of the day, when it takes a subtle adjustment of the eyes to look through yourself instead of at yourself. But the windows will never be cleaned; the most that can be hoped for is a hard, purifying rain. There’s a yellow streak of bird shit on the glass in the living room, crusted over now, and the kitchen window still bears the ghostly pattern that Angela once traced on the fogged-up surface while waiting for something on the stove, she can no longer remember what: a pot to boil, a formless egg to acquire edges and turn opaque, a single drop of oil to escape its pan and scald her out of her thoughts.

NAPOLEON COMPLEX

Does Ridley Scott see himself in the hero of his epic new film?

THE CURRENT CINEMA MAN DOWN

\"Priscilla\" and \"Dream Scenario.\"

MAKE ME

Is free will an illusion? You decide.

COPING MECHANISMS

Philip Roth's \"Sabbath's Theater\" adapted for the stage, and \"I Need That.\"

DEPT. OF SCIENCE REINVENTING THE DINOSAUR

A documentary renews our fascination with our feared and loved precursors.

THE ORGANIZER

How Bayard Rustin managed the civil-rights movement.

TRYSTS TROPIQUES

The nested narratives of Tan Twan Eng's \"The House of Doors.\"

Annals of Crime – Desert Captives

An Eritrean started a trafficking business. Then he began kidnapping his clients for ransom.

What Erewhon Knows

In the 1960s, two Japanese macrobiotic enthusiasts started a health-food sect beloved by celebrity hippies. Fifty-seven years and a corporate makeover later, it's the most culty grocer in America.

96 Minutes With ...Emma and Jens Grede

A big chunk of the Kardashian-Jenner family's net worth rides on one Bel Air couple.

A Nouveau Newburg

Museum food gets an update at the New-York Historical Society.

The Discourse: Eric Levitz

Is That Antisemitic? The fraught terminology surrounding the war in Israel.