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The 12.8.19 Issue

Highlights

  2. Feature

    I Worked for Alex Jones. I Regret It.

    I dropped out of film school to edit video for the conspiracy theorist because I believed in his worldview. Then I saw what it did to people.

     By Josh Owens

    CreditIllustration by Eric Yahnker
  3. Feature

    How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America

    The translator Ken Liu has done more than anyone to bridge the gap between Chinese science fiction and American readers.

     By Alexandra Alter

    Ken Liu outside his home in Stoughton, Mass.
    CreditAmani Willett for The New York Times

  1. How Watching ‘Jeopardy!’ Together Helped Me Say Goodbye to My Father

    Every night, as my father was dying, we made the show a ritual. Then Alex Trebek announced that he was sick, too.

     By Sam Anderson

    CreditPhoto illustration by Cristiana Couceiro
    Screenland

  2. Letter of Recommendation: Badly Dubbed Movies

    When I decided to binge watch several dozen spaghetti westerns, I didn’t expect the dubbing to be one of the best parts. It was.

     By Mark Binelli

    CreditPhoto Illustration by Ben Grandgenett. Source photograph from Everett Collection.
    Letter of Recommendation

  3. How to Bake the Perfect Madeleine

    Good is too easy. These toasty Earl Grey-flavored teacakes are an astounding delight.

     By Dorie Greenspan

    Earl Grey madeleines.
    CreditSarah Anne Ward for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Paola Andrea.
    Eat

  4. How to Pluck a Feather

    Hold the bird in your sterilized, nondominant hand. Gently pull out two feathers, six in from each side of the tail’s underside.

     By Malia Wollan

    CreditIllustration by Radio
    Tip

  5. Poem: Mother Going Gone

    In a rush of breath and syllables, someone lives and departs, is gone without being gone.

     By Ellen Doré Watson and Naomi Shihab Nye

    Credit
    Poem

  1. Judge John Hodgman on Where Midtown Ends

    Is Midtown a place? Or a state of mind?

     By Judge John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy
    Judge John Hodgman

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