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The Many Lives of Steven Yeun
What’s a typical immigrant story? In his new film, “Minari,” the “Walking Dead” star has his own to tell.
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The 2.7.21 Issue
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Risking Everything to Come to America on the Open Ocean
The border with Mexico extends well beyond the desert. Tighter enforcement on land has driven record numbers of migrants to attempt dangerous crossings by water.
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He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?
Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient Greece and Rome off their pedestal — even if that means destroying their discipline.
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Even Jodie Foster Is Still Trying to Figure Jodie Foster Out
“A lot of people are made to be an actor on a cellular level. That’s not me.”
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Am I Being Unkind by Rejecting My Father’s Gifts?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on feeling uncomfortable with giving money as a sign of love and the obligation to report a doctor’s incompetence.
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CreditIllustration by Tomi Um The EthicistIn her final column for the magazine, Samin Nosrat makes the case for cooking beans the old-fashioned way.
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CreditHeami Lee for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Miako Katoh EatWe Live in Disastrous Times. Why Can’t Disaster Movies Evolve?
George Clooney’s new apocalypse movie does what they all do: turn the end of the world into a personal issue. But the truth is we’re all in it together.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban ScreenlandSuddenly the Man Couldn’t See. Was His Chest Pain Connected?
A gray cloud obscured the vision in the man’s eye. A medical student in the E.R. found the cause in an entirely different part of his body.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Ina Jang DiagnosisRemember that your aim is to center the person’s life and not your grief, profound though it may be.
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My Father Died Young. His Sisters Kept Me From Losing Him Entirely.
Aunts straddle a line between authority figure and anarchist: As our elders, they inspire deference, but they’re partners in transgression too.
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CreditIllustration by Holly Stapleton Letter of RecommendationLeila Chatti’s poem about childbirth reveals that sometimes it’s brutally hard to be a woman in this world.
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Credit PoemJudge John Hodgman on Naming Children
Does a husband have unlimited veto power? What if he has no suggestions of his own?
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