PARIS — Compared with the junk she’s found in other cities, “Parisian trash is sturdy,” Ser Serpas said. She speaks from experience — at 27, the itinerant artist and poet is admired...
Read moreWhen William Edwin Wildman III first saw Parker Calin Kennedy in March 2015 at the pool in the condominium complex where they both lived in Oxford, Miss., Mr. Kennedy was drinking a...
Read moreA doll’s clothes can be as memorable as any worn by a human, especially if that doll has a taste for blood.Talky Tina, the demonic toy made famous by “The Twilight Zone,”...
Read morePeople get so dreary with their wool coats, like they’re just workhorses. Wearing the same boring coat over and over for months — months!!!!! — just for warmth is an expression of...
Read moreWhen Nicholas Manville started a job as the creative director at the Danish silverware maker Georg Jensen, he knew Denmark had a decorative history that was less subdued than the neutral palettes...
Read moreAfter school, my granddaughter, 9, walks a quarter of a mile — by herself — from the bus stop to her house while her father works from home. She texts him when...
Read moreSo the Golden Globes returned, two years after disappearing from our screens, first because of a pandemic-induced lockdown and then because of scandal — financial, ethical and racial. And with their disappearance...
Read moreOn the morning of the day I had decided to go without using plastic products — or even touching plastic — I opened my eyes and put my bare feet on the...
Read moreNot to put a damper on your seed-catalog bingeing — it marks the ritual start to every new garden season, after all — but Andrew Schuyler has a question: Is there a...
Read morePostcard from the FutureMonths into dating, my girlfriend and I sat across from another couple and drank margaritas. “If we ever get married,” I said, “we’re going to combine our last names...
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