Gwyneth Paltrow has jokes! The Avengers Endgame actress and lifestyle empress beat her fans to the punch when it came to making fun of her for her latest innovation. In case you hadn’t heard, GOOP gave the ladies of the world a very special Valentine’s Day weekend gift — they invented their very own vibrator! Video: Gwyneth […]
A rare and rapturous glimpse of the slow double embrace by which some of Earth’s tenderest creatures make more of themselves. In February 2018, I found myself on a friend’s fruit farm in Kauai, having gratefully escaped the short bleak days of Brooklyn winter to finish Figuring. Each day, being a creature of loops and […]
A Dozen Cousins offers a line of modernized ready-to-eat beans inspired by traditional Black and Latino recipes from throughout the Americas.
A bittersweet signal from the discomposing territory between reason and hope. This essay is excerpted from the thirteenth chapter of Figuring, titled “The Banality of Survival.” In the spring of 1849, ten years before On the Origin of Species shook the foundation of humanity’s understanding of life, the polymathic astronomer John Herschel — coiner of […]
“Through your words I feel so close to you that I can feel your laughter, so clean and honest.” In the hottest month of 1913, the Stockinger Printing Company in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, hired as a colorist and engraver a twenty-one-year-old Hungarian artist who had just arrived in America as a refugee with $25 and an […]
This is an installment of Startup Year One, a special series of interviews with founders about the major lessons they have learned in the immediate aftermath of their businesses’ first year of operation. Nydia Shipman and Sarah Renahan started the Worthy Company in 2018. As new moms, they were seeking a better eating experience that […]
Chrissy Teigen doesn’t care if you can’t relate to her fabulous life! The superstar drew the ire of Twitter on Wednesday after reminiscing about the time she and John Legend accidentally dropped $13k on a bottle of wine, and ended up responding to the backlash after going viral because of it. Related: Chrissy Does NOT […]
A coming-of-age story about racial identity in America today; a highly anticipated cathartic novel about a life-changing weekend shared between strangers; and an authoritative new work from a tech industry titan with a plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Here are eight […]
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master.” I will never forget the day I first encountered, in the midst of heartache, “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911–October 6, 1979) — a poem I have lived with for years, a poem that has helped me live. Composed when Bishop was sorrowing after a […]
“Books read us back to ourselves… The escape into another story reminds us that we too are another story. Not caught, not confined, not predestined.” “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us,” Kafka wrote to his childhood friend just as he was setting out on a life of making and […]