‘It’s a Terrible Thing When a Grown Person Does Not Belong to Herself’
Ukraine’s booming surrogacy business has become a logistical and ethical mess — and hell for the women at the center.
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The 5.8.22 Issue
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CreditNanna Heitmann/Magnum, for The New York Times The Matador and Me: Coming to Terms with My Famously Ugly Lookalike
What my resemblance to a Spanish bullfighter taught me about the dilemma beneath every human face.
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CreditAgence France-Presse, via Getty Images; Meron Menghistab for The New York Times No American Has Ever Been No. 1 in Squash. Amanda Sobhy Can Change That.
The first American-born player to crack the world’s Top 10 is taking on Egypt’s dominance of the game.
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CreditCait Oppermann for The New York Times Michael R. Jackson’s Big Broadway Thriller
With his bravura meta-musical, “A Strange Loop,” the playwright is showing Broadway audiences something they have never seen before.
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Why Critics of Angry Woke College Kids Are Missing the Point
“If we just focus on this generation’s political style,” says political theorist Wendy Brown, “we ignore their rage at the world they’ve inherited.”
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CreditMamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times TalkI Promised My Sperm-Donor Anonymity. What Do I Tell My Child?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on weighing a child’s interest in knowing her father against his desire for privacy.
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CreditIllustration by Tomi Um The EthicistThe Dish Our Customers Will Never Let Us Take Off the Menu
Chargrilled broccoli with slivers of fried garlic and red chile is a fixture at Yotam Ottolenghi’s delis. There’s a good reason.
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CreditChris Simpson for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Sophia Pappas. EatI’m a Fashion Editor, and I Shop at the Dump
I used to be ashamed of my secret. But I’m ready to come clean.
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CreditIllustration by Dana Robinson Letter of RecommendationIt’s Been an Interesting Few Years in Cough-Drop Advertising
Is there a harder sell than products designed to suppress, and thus hide, respiratory illness during a pandemic?
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CreditIllustration by Radio TipYou can always rely on an Ada Limón poem to give you hope. But her poems don’t give us the kind of facile Hallmark hope; her hope is hard-earned.
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