essaysFix Your Glutes. Fix Your Life.
On some less obvious reasons to love the derrière. (The New York Times Magazine)
Dogsitting for New York City’s Opulent Elite
In a city of yawning class inequality, some side hustles let you glimpse how the other half lives. (The New York Times Magazine)
Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Tradwife?
Squinting into the great consumerist mirage. (The New York Times Magazine)
Tabi Shoes and Try-Hards
The viral tale of some stolen footwear says a lot about the tricky way nonconformity works. (The New York Times Magazine)
featuresYour Neighbors Retired in Their 30s. Why Can’t You?
Maybe we should have always been in it for ourselves, and nobody else, from the start. (The New York Times Magazine + on The Daily)
The Delirious Rise of the Superfake Handbag
What happens when no one can tell the difference between a $10,000 Chanel bag and a $200 knockoff? (The New York Times Magazine)
Louise Glück Taught Poetry to Write Poetry
The Nobel-winning writer was as generous to her students as she was pitiless to herself. (The New York Times Magazine)
Clive’s Moving Castle
He forged music’s most enormous empire. At nearly 90, why can’t he retire? (Rolling Stone)
Garage Rock
A nondescript, windowless room in Cupertino has been been reshaping the sound of music over the last 15 years. (Rolling Stone)
Morgan Wallen’s Inadmissible Victory
The walking succès de scandale, who has become the best-selling artist of the year, is a sour, familiar American lesson. (Rolling Stone)
Did ‘Butter’ Butter Butter?
A rather specious investigation into the K-pop-and-dairy industrial complex. (Rolling Stone)
Lawsuits Killed the Radio Star
On originality, the ordeals of creative ownership, and the new landscape of “song insurance.” (Rolling Stone)
Musical Chairs
The simple statistical analysis that explains the history of popular music. (Quartz)
The Vanishing University
A four-part series exploring the tech-driven future of higher education in America. (Quartz)
Dance Dance Revolution
A week among 8,000 worshippers of the fantastical cult of Zumba. Also, Mario Lopez. (Quartz)
Fresh Victims
A peddler of pricey organic and natural foods finds it has competition. (The Economist)
special projectsThe Things They Cherished
The very personal collections seven artists left behind. (The New York Times Magazine)
The Pets They Left Behind
“When Shelley died, I didn’t hear him whistling for months and months.” (The New York Times Magazine)
What Your Therapist Doesn’t Tell You
A dozen counselors on what it’s really like to sit in the other armchair. (The New York Times Magazine)
Actors in the Wild
The best performers of the year, offscreen. (The New York Times Magazine)
Babies Enter the Chat
Up close and personal with unruly new colleagues. (The New York Times Magazine)
The Future of Music Issue
A special issue dedicated to the sudden tangle of financial, political, and technological upheavals confronting an orthodox industry. (Rolling Stone)
Good Riddance to Songs of the Summer
How streaming killed a stalwart of pop culture. (Rolling Stone)
Don’t Fear the Reaper
Pop music, once the domain of bubblegum joy, has fallen in love with death. (Quartz)
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