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THE FIN AND THE FURY

Beware of sharkless waters.

What Happened To The Yuppie?– In 1979, an article by Blake Fleetwood in the Times Magazine reported a surprising phenomenon: young people were moving to big cities

Tom McGrath's "Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation" (Grand Central) is an entertaining recap of that period. McGrath doesn't offer a novel sociological interpretation of the yuppies. What he has to say about them would have been conventional even during their time.

Old Money - How treasure from an eighteen-century shipwreck ended up in the hands of a Florida couple

How treasure from an eighteenth-century shipwreck ended up in the hands of a Florida couple.

Writing for a Warming World - Imagining the overwhelming, the ubiquitous, the world-shattering.

Climate change is one of those topics that can throw novelists—and everyone else—into a fearful and cowering silence. When the earth is losing its familiar shapes and consolations, changing drastically and in unpredictable ways beneath our feet, how can we summon our creative resources to engage in the imaginative world-building required to write a novel that takes on these threats in compelling ways? And how to avoid writing fiction that addresses irreversible climate change without letting our prose get too preachy, overly prescriptive, saturated with despair?

A YOUNG ARTIST

An Italian widow is still discovering the joy of painting at ninety-three.

BIZARRE REALITY

Julio Torres's \"Fantasmas\" finds truth in fantasy.

How Jet Democratized the Thirst Trap

When I was growing up, in the early two-thousands, I knew of only one way that a mere mortal could be pictured in a bikini for paying subscribers.

GOINGS ON

What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.

THE BRINK OF WAR

Will Hezbollah's border fight with Israel lead to a wider conflict?

Abject Naturalism + Sarah Braunstein

The baby's father left before the Cesarean incision had fully healed, when it was still a raised red line, tender to the touch, glistening with Vitamin E oil. Perfidy!

HEAVY WEATHER

Some first-generation disaster films were real-life disasters for their actors. D. W. Griffith's 1920 melodrama \"Way Down East,\" featuring the climactic rescue of a woman being carried off on an ice floe in raging currents, was filmed in a real river after a real blizzard.

WRITING PROMPTS

Take a walk in your neighborhood while pushing your baby who refuses to nap in a stroller.

DEAD RECKONING

At the Sphere, a fan wrestles with what the Grateful Dead have left behind.

OVERCORRECTION

On the abolition of prisons.

BEACH BOYS

Eating and drinking through Provincetown.

HEAR NO EVIL

An artist uses audio analysis to investigate violence.

PARADISE BRONX

The borough’ history has always been shaped by its in-between-ness.

BLOCKING

\"Sing Sing.\"

CHARMED

Clairo makes music about the wallop and jolt of romantic connection.

SEX AND SENSIBILITY

The rise and fall of the Bluestockings.

THE POWER OF THE PIRATES

Their flag meant death. What else did it mean?

BOT THERAPY

He appeared one day on Instagram. He had noticed my posts and asked if I wanted to talk.

DANCES WITH WOOLF

Does ballet need narrative?

THE SUMMER OF SCI-FI

1982 and the meaning of moviegoing.

INSIDE THE TRUMP PLAN FOR 2025

A network of well-funded far-right activists is preparing for the former President's return to the White House.

A Dynasty Born In Fire- How an upstart Maya king forged a new social order amid chaos

At the beginning of the Terminal Classic period (ca. A.D. 810-1000), many of the great kingdoms of the southern Maya lowlands-among them Tikal, Palenque, and Calakmul-were being abandoned or collapsing. For many years, scholars have assumed that most, if not all, the other kingdoms across the Maya world must have also been in steep decline.

Like Cats And Dogs – Archeologist fund the skeleton of a male Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), a notoriously shy creature.

Оn the periphery of Zamárdi, an ancient lakeshore settlement in west-central Hungary, archaeologists uncovered a nearly five-foot-deep beehive-shaped pit with the skeletons of four adult dogs buried in successive shallow layers.

Medical Malfeasance - Archaeologists uncovered two coffins during excavations of a nineteenth-century cemetery in Quebec City that provide evidence of the illicit practice of diverting corpses for the study of human anatomy.

Archaeologists uncovered two coffins during excavations of a nineteenth-century cemetery in Quebec City that provide evidence of the illicit practice of diverting corpses for the study of human anatomy. Starting in 1847, medical students were required to have practical experience studying human anatomy, but legal options to procure cadavers were limited

Digs & Discoveries - A Fortress Sanctuary - A sprawling 2,000-year-old fortress in the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan appears to have included a sanctuary dedicated to the ancient Persian water goddess Anahita.

A sprawling 2,000-year-old fortress in the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan appears to have included a sanctuary dedicated to the ancient Persian water goddess Anahita.

Digs & Discoveries - A Friend For Hercules - Archaeologists discovered a finely carved head depicting Apollo, god of the sun, music, and poetry.

While digging at the crossroads of the two main streets in the ancient city of Philippi in northern Greece, archaeologists discovered a finely carved head depicting Apollo, god of the sun, music, and poetry.