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Midlife, typically defined as ages 40 to 60, is an inflection point. It’s a time when our past behaviors begin to catch up with us and we start to notice our bodies and minds aging — sometimes in frustrating or disconcerting ways. But it’s also an opportunity: What our older years will look and feel […] More
Welcome to Well’s 5-day Friendship Challenge! Step one is to discover your friendship style. Do you like to plumb the depths of a new acquaintance’s soul? Or are you surprisingly skilled at small talk? We all need social connection, but we thrive in different ways. So we partnered with Kasley Killam, a social scientist and […] More
When a kitchen knife slips and you instinctively grip an injured finger, your first thought — after “Eww, I can’t look” — is probably to stop the bleeding and bandage it up, so you can finish prepping dinner. But not every scrape or bump is straightforward. How deep is too deep for a Band-Aid? What […] More
More important but less celebrated, Pierrepont then shifted his pitch to promise that the neighborhood character would be backed up by a legal guarantee. Only dwelling houses would be allowed — no rear-lot cooperages or blacksmith shops mixed in with residential uses. The homes had to be made of brick, with slate or metal roofs […] More
This busy, unassuming everydayness — “I do this I do that” poems, O’Hara called them — has led some critics to dismiss his poetry as trivial, or to celebrate its ephemeral, spontaneous qualities at the expense of its formal accomplishment.
A photograph of Frank O’Hara, sitting in a butterfly chair, with legs crossed. He smiles at someone off-camera. More
Our critic, Pete Wells, drops his annual ranking. See what’s new, what moved and what left the list. More
I don’t know how many rent parties Minnie threw. I do know that her younger son, Cleveland Gilmore, never liked to talk to his son about his childhood and the poverty he experienced as a boy. I know this because nearly 100 years after she and her sister passed out invitations and opened their home, […] More
Speaking in Dance is an exploration of movement and choreography, chosen by The Times’s dance critic, Gia Kourlas.Video by Stephan Alessi. Camera Operator: Alex Levin. Produced by Alicia DeSantis, Jolie Ruben, Tala Safie, Rachel Saltz and Josephine Sedgwick. Additional production by Rumsey Taylor and Josh Williams. More
