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The Good Old Days of Book Publishing, Martinis and All

“Among Friends” is a history of an industry transformed by consolidation and shifting tastes.

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Here’s How the World Looks When We Use Up All of Our Water

Walking toward the shrinking remnants of what used to be the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan was like entering hell. All…

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Where the Flavors of the Amazon Rainforest Delight

A foreign visitor walking through Praça Brasil, a leafy square in the Amazonian port city of Belém, might think that…

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Why Biden’s Weakness Among Young Voters Should Be Taken Seriously

Almost all the polling shows the same pattern. Could the coming campaign restore Democrats’ usual advantage?

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The Survivor

Maria Cornejo, the Chilean American designer, got the call in June. She was at home in her sort of messy…

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‘My Patient Did Not Have to Die the Way She Did’

In the fall of 2021, a soft-spoken woman in her 60s came to the emergency room where I worked, complaining…

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Why Napoleon, Once Larger Than Life, Now Feels So Small

“History,” the essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, “is the biography of great men” — and of these Napoleon, whom…

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Not Everything Has to Be Meaningful

In 2017, I was blindsided by the sudden onset of obsessive compulsive disorder and secondary depression. For the better of…

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Marty Krofft, Co-Creator of Fantastical TV Shows, Dies at 86

Marty Krofft, who, with his brother Sid, created a string of television shows that captured audiences from Saturday morning to…

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Everybody Knows Flo From Progressive. Who Is Stephanie Courtney?

One needn’t eat Tostitos Hint of Lime Flavored Triangles to survive; advertising’s object is to muddle this truth. Of course,…

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