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The 6.6.21 Issue

Highlights

  3. The Mystery of the $113 Million Deli

    It made headlines around the world: a New Jersey sandwich shop with a soaring stock price. Was it just speculation, or something stranger?

     By Jesse Barron

    CreditIllustration by Kelsey Dake

  4. The Disease Detective

    Joe DeRisi invented a way to find pathogens that scientists didn’t even know to look for. Can it help prevent the next pandemic?

     By Jennifer Kahn

    Joe DeRisi, creator of IDseq, at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in San Francisco.
    CreditCarlos Chavarría for The New York Times

  1. Ancient Rome Will Never Get Old. Take It From Mary Beard.

    “What the Romans are teaching is always at that meta level of what it might be like to take a view different from your own.”

     By David Marchese

    CreditPhoto illustration by Bráulio Amado
    Talk

  2. Can I Ask Co-Workers if They’ve Had the Covid Vaccine?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on why asking about vaccine status isn’t a question of etiquette but of public health.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditTomi Um
    The Ethicist

  3. A Coconut Cake for the Ages

    This gâteau d’Hélène recipe from the 1970s is just as elegant and delicious today as it was decades ago.

     By Dorie Greenspan

    CreditDavid Malosh for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Sophia Pappas.
    Eat

  4. How Wild Will Summer Be? This Gum Commercial Gets Creative.

    What is fresh breath even for, if it’s not for post-pandemic orgies in the park?

     By Mireille Silcoff

    CreditPhoto illustration by Chris Burnett
    Screenland

  5. X is the Best Letter in the Alphabet

    It’s now used to indicate sex and gender beyond the binary. But X has always been powerful.

     By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

    CreditIllustration by Hayley Wall
    Letter of Recommendation

  1. A Young Mother Found Herself Cripplingly Weak. Did Her Operation Cause This?

    Three months after having bariatric surgery, she was vomiting several times a day and couldn’t even move her eyes.

     By Lisa Sanders, M.D.

    CreditPhoto illustration by Ina Jang
    Diagnosis

  2. How to Feel Small

    Stare out at the ocean. Look up at the stars. Realize you are part of something much bigger and more important than you.

     By Malia Wollan

    CreditIllustration by Radio
    Tip

  3. Poem: the listening

    I do not know anyone who lost a home or feared death as fires blazed in California or Australia. There is not really a name for that ignorance. This poem, though, erases a bit of it.

     By Ed Roberson and Reginald Dwayne Betts

    CreditIllustration by R. O. Blechman
    Poem

  4. Judge John Hodgman on Dipping Your Fingers in With the Cookie

    One husband’s snacking habits cross the line.

     By John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy
    Judge John Hodgman

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