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The 8.13.17 Issue

Highlights

  1. Feature

    Braving Cancer Amid the Chaos of Syria

    As the conflict grinds on, parents of sick children face a wrenching choice: to risk traveling for treatment, or to risk forgoing it.

     By

    Rahima Chawish, 5, from Deir Ezzor, about to get treatment for kidney cancer at Al-Bayrouni University Hospital cancer center in Damascus.
    CreditSebastián Liste/NOOR, for The New York Times
  2. Feature

    Who’s Afraid of Claire Messud?

    The novelist’s characters have been called “difficult women.” She would say they are simply women with desires.

     By

    Claire Messud
    CreditIrina Rozovsky for The New York Times
  1. Victory in the Shadows

    Through blur, darkness and drift, the photographer Santu Mofokeng shows that black South Africans are more than their suffering.

     By

    ‘‘The Drumming, Johannesburg-Soweto Line, from Train Church,’’ 1986.
    CreditSantu Mofokeng
    On Photography
  2. How Do I Deal With a Gun at a Relative’s Home?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on a family’s prejudices against gun ownership and the guilt of making more money teaching English as a native speaker.

     By

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist
  3. Letter of Recommendation: Gum

    Gum chewing isn’t stimulating and addictive, like cigarette smoking. Its pleasure is closer to that of a pacifier.

     By

    Gum chewing isn’t stimulant and addictive, like cigarette smoking. Its pleasure is closer to that of a pacifier.
    CreditSam Kaplan for The New York Times
    Letter of Recommendation
  4. Elevating the Humble Cookie

    Pierre Hermé’s raspberry and rose sablés taste wonderfully complex, but making them is easy.

     By

    Ispahan Sablés.
    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times
    On Desserts
  5. How to Have Your Health Food and Love It, Too

    Make your own tofu, then serve it with a French butter sauce – the best of two very different kinds of cooking.

     By

    Warm tofu and fresh soybeans cooked in salted French butter and celery-seed gastrique.
    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times
    Eat
  1. Andy Slavitt Wants to Unite America on Health Care

    The former head of Medicaid on the most recent efforts to repeal or replace the A.C.A. and whether President Trump can distinguish between health and life insurance.

     Interview by

    Andy Slavitt
    CreditGalen Fletcher for The New York Times
    Talk
  2. New Sentences: From Elin Hilderbrand’s ‘The Identicals’

    The allures, the pleasures and the luxury-product name-dropping of a classic “beach read.”

     By

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    New Sentences
  3. The Way It Is

    Selected by Terrance Hayes.

     Selected by

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    Poem
  4. How to Handle a Sleepwalker

    Speak in a quiet voice. Prepare for zombielike spookiness.

     By

    Credit
    Tip
  5. Judge John Hodgman on Animal-Costume Cruelty

    Can pet clothing be racist?

     By

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    Judge John Hodgman

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