The 9 best books of the year so far
A truism about stories (courtesy, more or less, of the novelist John Gardner) is that there are only two plots:
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How America’s ideal woman got jacked
A lot of people are getting jacked these days, and it’s not just who you would think. For men, muscles
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Why are men shaving off their eyelashes?
A small but curious sign of the deepening gender divide in our politically fraught times: Male beauty standards are getting
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The tech billionaires are missing the point of their favorite sci-fi series
One of the most momentous developments of the new Trump era is how major billionaires in the tech industry — frequently
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The strange fascination with Jordon Hudson and Bill Belichick, explained
When we look at the relationship between 73-year-old legendary football coach Bill Belichick and his girlfriend and business partner, 24-year-old
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Why it feels like 2007 again
In February, a group of men on a sports talk show casually spread a salacious and untrue rumor about the
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Book recs for March: 4 portraits of complicated women
It’s been 12 years since Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published her last novel, Americanah, to overwhelming acclaim. In the time since,
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Trump’s petty revenge on the Kennedy Center
The iconic musical Hamilton canceled its high-profile plans to perform next year at the John F. Kennedy Center for the
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The impossibility of being Meghan Markle
What to do with Meghan Markle? Or, sorry — Meghan Sussex, as in the Duchess of, which she informs Mindy Kaling
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A hippie memoir that will send you on a trek through Kathmandu
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