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The New York Times Magazine
12.29.13
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A celebration of public and private lives, and of the moments — intimate, historic, unexpected — that shaped them.
Photographs and stories from readers of people close to them who died in 2013.
Where Celebrity Assistants Go When They’re Losing Their Minds
December 27, 2013
13 Solutions for Fighting Crazy Ants
December 24, 2013
Behind the Cover Story: Mark Leibovich on Checking In With John McCain
December 23, 2013
Op-Docs
The Night Witch
By ALISON KLAYMAN
How Nadezhda Popova, known as Nadia, became a World War II fighter pilot.
Daredevil on a Snowmobile
By LUCY WALKER
The short, fearless life of a competitive snowmobiler from Texas.
Naturally, J.J. Cale
By DREW CHRISTIE
Why J.J. Cale, who wrote such classic songs as “After Midnight,” “Cocaine” and “Call Me the Breeze,” never achieved stardom.
Spider Drove a Taxi
By JOSHUA Z WEINSTEIN
New York City’s taxi drivers seen through the life of Johnnie Footman, the city’s oldest cabby.
For Seamus
By ELAINE McMILLION SHELDON and KERRIN SHELDON
The impact of Seamus Heaney’s words on his countrymen.
Editors' Picks
The Search for the Lost Marines of Tarawa
By WIL S. HYLTON
Seventy years after three of the bloodiest days in modern American history, the battle continues to bring the missing men back home.
Riff
A Reason to Root for Dubai on the Hudson
By HUGO LINDGREN
The trouble isn’t that Manhattan is changing. The trouble lies in what exactly it’s starting to become.
God Called Them to Adopt. And Adopt. And Adopt.
By MAGGIE JONES
When responding to a calling to take in foster children, how do you know when you’ve done enough?
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This Is What It Looks Like at the Center of America
A photo portolio by Andrew Moore of some of the most sparsely populated regions west of the 100th meridian.
The 6th Floor Blog
Down the Instagram Rabbit Hole
By MAYA LAU
Discovery of one great Instagram photographer leads to the discovery of another one, then another . . .
