“In a world of GPS and car-hailing apps, some Londoners still want to drive a traditional black cab. First, they must memorize thousands of city streets.”
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Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
“The U.S. Forest Service has fought decades of efforts to better protect its crews — sending them into smoke without masks or warnings about the risks.”
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Oprah Shamed James Frey. He’s Back Anyway.
“Twenty years after A Million Little Pieces became a national scandal, James Frey is ready for a new audience.”
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Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.
“Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.”
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When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer
“Robert Munsch wrote ‘The Paper Bag Princess,’ ‘Love You Forever’ and other classics by performing them over and over for kids. But his stories are slipping away.”
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My All-Nighter in a Vanishing World: the 24-Hour Diner
“New York may be losing its identity as the city that doesn’t sleep, but the motley guests at Kellogg’s Diner show the spirit is still wide awake.”
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How Words Give Shape to Legacies
New York Times writer Sam Roberts on the art of the obituary.
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What I Found on the 365-Mile Trail of a Lost Folk Hero
“The Old Leatherman, a sort of real-life Northeastern Sasquatch, gave me an excuse to step outside my own life.”
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How My Dad Reconciled His God and His Gay Son
“When I came out nearly 16 years later, it shook his faith and fractured his church. But it never separated us. I wanted to
understand how. So I read his journals.”
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A.O. Scott’s Poetry Lessons
“A conversation with the NYT critic on his popular close reads of poems.”
