Hits: 21 In a season of high spirits and spirited spending, experts say focusing on sentiment over receipts is more likely to bring holiday cheer. On Christmas Eve in 2013, Elisa Stead, an American living abroad in Iceland, was ready …
What’s the Best Gift You Ever Received? Here’s 6 Replies.
Hits: 18 The responses include a trip through Canada, earrings and several books. A favorite gift can be as practical as a new laptop or as profound as an introduction to one’s heritage. So, The Times asked six men and …
Is Reading the Hottest Thing You Can Do as a Single Person?
Hits: 18 Pop culture has conditioned us to believe that a meet-cute that doesn’t happen in a bookstore is hardly worth having. But is being an avid reader truly essential to romance? One of the first questions men ask Angela …
The World of Jewelry in 4 New Books
Hits: 28 Authors draw on records and personal descriptions to illuminate brands’ approaches to creativity. Is jewelry storytelling entering an age of authenticity? From social media to reality TV, polished and aesthetically pleasing images have been giving way to real, …
The Taylor and Travis Fan Fiction That’s Tearing TikTok Apart
Hits: 19 “Roughing the Princess,” an erotic e-book inspired by an actual relationship, veered too close to reality for many of Taylor Swift’s fans. She’s a beloved blonde pop star with the initials T.S. He’s a handsome N.F.L. player with …
What Leotard Can Compare to This?
Hits: 17 More than 100 designer costumes from the New York City Ballet are featured in a new book photographed by Pari Dukovic. As a boy of 8, Pari Dukovic would pick up his camera, a gift from his father, …
Can This Deck of Cards Make Your Partner Do More Chores?
Hits: 25 The Fair Play system, a word-of-mouth hit, seeks to bring so-called invisible labor out into the open. Ask Eve Rodsky why resentment is seeping into your relationship, and she might ask you: “How did the mustard get into …
Norton, a Defiant Indie Book Publisher, Celebrates 100 Years
Hits: 19 Rita Dove, Michael Lewis and Richard Powers were among the authors who took part in a crowded, swinging party at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan. As the tang of Canadian wildfire smoke wafted through Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday evening, …
The Home Cook Who Wants to ‘Blow Up the Kitchen’
Hits: 19 A new book by the British academic Rebecca May Johnson urges a radical rethinking of just what goes on in the kitchen. For starters, don’t call cooking a labor of love. What don’t we talk about when we …
She Never Wanted to Be a Mother. Now She’s Written a Book for Women Like Her.
Hits: 9 Ruby Warrington, author of “Women Without Kids,” on her friendships with moms, her plans for the future and how she refers to herself. Ruby Warrington has never wanted children. Not while she was growing up in England and …