It was dark by the time the 41-year-old woman was able to start the long drive from her father’s apartment in Washington, D.C., to her home in Westchester County, N.Y. She was eager to get back to her husband and three children.
My friends and I were crazy about professional wrestling when we were kids in the ’80s. Body slams. Drop-kicks. Figure-four leg locks. In our yards, we spent hours emulating these moves. Our imaginations supplied the raucous crowd and the pageantry, inserting us
Beholding six years of accumulated research into one man’s life is like coming upon a finished jigsaw puzzle covering a ballroom floor: awesome, but it hurts to imagine the effort. Researching a writer’s life is slow work, a mix of shoe-leather reporting
Even after being elected to the Senate in 2012, the Hawaii Democrat Mazie Hirono was, by her own choosing, a politician little known outside her home state. Then, around 2016 and the election of a particularly divisive president, Hirono, who was born
Scientists can now sequence an entire genome in minutes. This technology has been the key tool in identifying and tracking Covid variants. Unlocking the Covid Code By Jon Gertner Edward Holmes was in Australia on a Saturday morning in early January 2020,
Krisa writes: My friend Ken and I had dinner plans. But after a day at the vet with my sick dog, I texted that I might not be home in time for dinner and attended to Maybelline. Next morning, I awoke to
I’ve been reading the poems of Honorée Fanonne Jeffers since I was a boy in prison. And now, more than a score of years later, her verse is still making the same complicated music. It’s hard, truly, to make some things that
Should you drink coffee? If so, how much? These seem like questions that a society able to create vaccines for a new respiratory virus within a year should have no trouble answering. And yet the scientific literature on coffee illustrates a frustration
“Mark your calendar, there’s a big day coming!” On Jan. 9, with the dream of $2,000 stimulus checks not yet deflated, the Southern California real estate broker Kevin Paffrath uploaded a video to his “Meet Kevin” YouTube channel, updating viewers on the
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One contemporary newspaper article on Grant in his prime remarked that “wherever he had played, he has quickly become a favorite.” But the story of Grant’s prime years is also the story of the color line catching up to him. “Were it