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Redesigned With Amenities, the Chippendale Building Tries to Lure Workers
Now known as 550 Madison, the historic Chippendale Building has been updated with a new gym, a full kitchen and…
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Nurses Are Burned Out and Fed Up. For Good Reason.
It is enraging but not particularly surprising that our health care system is failing the most essential of its workers.…
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He Got Biden to Open Up About His Stutter, Then Wrote About His Own
John Hendrickson's memoir “Life on Delay” recounts his experience with this poorly understood neurological disorder, tracing an arc from frustration…
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A Rosier View of Roald Dahl
“Teller of the Unexpected,” an elegant new biography, sidesteps the ugly side of the children’s book author while capturing his…
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An Oral History of Rikers Island
In a new book, a wide range of voices weigh in on the notorious jail complex.
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Bret Easton Ellis Is Back to His Regularly Scheduled Programming
In his latest novel, “The Shards,” the author returns to his old tropes: gruesome murder, lonely teenagers and 1980s Los…
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Can We Talk About How We Talk About the Weather?
When the barometer drops, the hyperbole rises, and meteorologists aren’t happy about it.
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‘Polar Vortex’ Got You Baffled? Try This Extreme-Weather Guide
A handy explanation of some of the newer climatological verbiage.
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Does the War Over Abortion Have a Future?
In decades past, as the calendar turned to January, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade would come into view. Abortion…
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China Helped Raise My American Kids, and They Turned Out Fine
When Covid was raging across the world a couple of years ago, I came across a picture online of an…