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The Great Ozempic Experiment
“It’s a new era of D.I.Y. medicine. Now the health establishment needs to catch up.”
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Disney Is the Happiest Place on Earth, if You Can Afford It
“Mr. Currell, a management consultant, interviewed dozens of Disney enthusiasts, historians and experts, and visited Walt Disney World, which he first experienced in 1977.”
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How to Make Art Out of Confederate Monuments
“A new show featuring decommissioned statues forces a reckoning with American history at a moment when Donald Trump is trying to stop just that.”
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Behind His Great Novels, an Unbearable Family Secret
“The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried.”
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Can Andre Agassi Enjoy Pickleball More Than He Hated Tennis?
“After years of relative quiet, the public is meeting ‘Andre 2.0’ — a pickleball booster, an open book and a guy eager to build a less tortured relationship with competition.”
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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here
“I remain hopeful partly as defiance.”
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Their Ancestor Was an Enslaved Potter. They Are Battling to Recover His Legacy.
“The descendants of David Drake learned who he was 10 years ago. They see his jars as his artistic and spiritual inheritance—and their own.”
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George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You
“He’s as flawed a human being as anyone else, one who’s still wrestling with questions about how best to move through life with a modicum of grace and compassion.”
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‘You’re Going to Lose Your Mind’: My Three-Day Retreat in Total Darkness
“The author spent days in a room with no light. Who would he be when he emerged?”
