“We picked the 25 most important recipes of the past century. Then I spent one month cooking every single one. I was not prepared.”
Peter Rubin
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The Invisible Man
“We see right through the unshowered soul living in a car by the beach, or by the side of the road. But he’s there, and he used to be somebody. He still is.”
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‘Here I Gather All the Friends’: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
“Reading is a form of necromancy, a way to summon and commune once again with the dead, but in what ersatz temple should such a ritual take place?”
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What I Learned From Destroying Myself at the NYC Marathon
“It is best experienced with open ears, open eyes, and, yeah, I’ll say it: an open heart.”
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The Final Flight of the Airline Magazine
“United’s in-flight publication goes digital—and marks the end of an era.”
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The Future of Film May Just Be Old Movies
“As theaters throughout the country adjust to an ever-changing landscape, many are turning to cinema’s past. Could repertory and revival screenings be a way forward?”
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A Shark Attack and a Terrorist Bombing: This Is a Love Story
“When our deepest trauma leads to our most profound joy, what do we call that feeling?”
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Hope in the Heartland and the Week’s Top 5
“She didn’t tell her customers that, the day before, when she was cutting parsley for an herb and cheese focaccia, she had to pause to stop tears from falling into the parsley. How the half-cut stems and greens transported her to a kitchen in Gaza City’s al-Rimal neighborhood, nearly 10 years before, when her grandmother […]