“For eight years running, Finland has topped the World Happiness Report — but what exactly does it measure?”
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If You Think This Instrument Is Hard to Play, Try Building One
“The oboe has 500 parts. Turning a profit is a killer. But Jim Phelan is bent on reviving one of the great names in classical music.”
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By All Measures
Our problems are too vast, our distance from them too great. How do we navigate our derangement of scale?
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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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How My Mother’s Dying Wish Took My Family to Antarctica
“What I thought was a burden was a tether across death’s divide.”
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Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?
“How one era changed everything about the culture — and why we’re so nostalgic for its creations.”
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Speaking for the Dead
A New York Times veteran considers the art of the obituary and how words give shape to legacies.
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Polaroid Death Machine
“I reached for the same tools that my grandmother used, the old Polaroid cameras I’d taken from what was once her home, which I cleaned and cared for, then carried out into our new, time-broken world, panicked and unsure of what I’d see.”
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My £2,500 Cavapoo is a Middle-Class Cliché. He’s Also a Fake
“Had the award-winning Times head of investigations been duped?”
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She Tried to Kill a President. He Loved Her Anyway.
“A retired widower married Sara Jane Moore, who shot at President Ford in 1975. It tore his family apart.”
