Feature
The Big Business of Being Gwyneth Paltrow
Inside the growth of Goop — the most controversial brand in the wellness industry.
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Photo CreditBrian Ulrich Letter of Recommendation
Letter of Recommendation: Dead Malls
Every video tour of an abandoned shopping center is a chance to gaze upon the wreck of our past selves.
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Photo CreditTomi Um The Ethicist
Should I Forgo Gay Sex to Donate Blood?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether prohibitions are necessarily discriminatory and balancing personal fulfillment against altruism.
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Photo CreditAmanda Demme for the New York Times Issue 7.29.18
Behind the Cover: The Big Business of Being Gwyneth Paltrow
For this issue, a look at one of the leaders of ostentatious wellness.
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New Sentences
Photo Credit New Sentences: From Keith Gessen’s ‘A Terrible Country’
All writers have their favorite sentence structures — the signatures they return to again and again.
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Talk
Photo CreditJessica Chou for The New York Times Domee Shi Thinks Kids Can Handle Dark Stories
The “Bao” animator on cartoon violence, miniature food and diversity at Pixar.
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On Photography
Photo CreditChris Dorley-Brown. From Hoxton Mini Press. How to Photograph Eternity
In his photographs of East London, Chris Dorley-Brown achieves the near-impossible: marrying past, present, and future in a single frame.
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Feature
Photo CreditPhoto Illustration by Daan Brand What the Mystery of the Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Could Reveal
Unraveling why tick bites are suddenly causing a strange reaction in some people who eat meat could help scientists better understand how all allergies work.
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First Words
Photo CreditPhoto illustration by Nicolás Ortega. Source photograph from Getty Images. Can Your ‘Ally’ Want Things You Don’t?
Partnerships that used to be strictly pragmatic have turned into strange, unspoken accords, always on the verge of some dramatic fracture.
