Reflections on two decades of yoga
Any time I want to, I can unroll my mat and deploy time-honored methods to slow down my breathing, calm my mind
Spectator Life
An intelligent mix of culture, style, travel, food and property, as well as where to go and what to see.
Bringing back rhinos in Pakistan
A foundation set up by my grandfather is trying to reintroduce the greater one-horned rhinoceros to its ancient heartland
Bar-hopping, Venetian style
The wine and spritzes flow all day in Venice’s bàcari — traditional, low-key taverns — while bitesize, freshly — made cicchetti provide sustenance
How now, Hausfrau?
Meet Missy Baldino and her Austrian-style housedresses
How good is cod liver oil for mental health?
It is beginning to cross over from fable into the realm of scientific fact
April 9, 2024
Great Colorado restaurants, now with Michelin nods
Who joined the mile high club?
April 4, 2024
The secret history of the school choice left
And its surprising future
March 17, 2024
Want student loan forgiveness? Make universities pay
What the Biden administration’s policies gloss over is a fundamental economic truth: debt cancellation isn’t an erasure but a transfer
Notre-Dame rising
The rebuilt and revitalized Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris is nearly complete. Will it appease the traditionalists?
Montréal serves up a surprising array of off-season delights
The hardy Québécois have found ways to keep the bleakness at bay
My first family goose hunt
Conservation, it turns out, is addicting
How serious is the feral pig problem?
The pests are lucrative, at least for the hunting business
Wild boar: a nuisance and a delicacy
During the banquet, a loquacious local vigneron told me that he has had sangliers rush by him at dawn while he’s working in his vineyards
The new Dada movement
The twenty-eight-year-old food influencer somehow makes being a gluten-free vegan who doesn’t drink look fun
March 14, 2024
London to Amsterdam via Brussels: taking the long way
My spin on Eurostar’s post-Brexit security checks: slow travel
Meet the vibrant rehabilitated crack dealer threatening to shut down the Washington Wizards
He has a history of being banned from working with the city government, until it turns to him in a time of desperation
March 7, 2024
Does Nike hate the military?
Their famous Military Blue sneakers have been renamed
March 4, 2024
My 600-Lb. Life: the end result of ‘body positivity’
Each episode offers a painful illustration of the consequences of extreme food addiction glorified today by activists
February 29, 2024
Oprah ditches WeightWatchers after shedding pounds with drugs
The business mogul revealed her use of weight loss medication last year
February 27, 2024
Time to end branch campuses in Qatar
Despite the money, they are more trouble than they’re worth
February 26, 2024
Biden’s absurd student loan ‘solution’
Not that anyone can blame him — it’s a political win-win for the White House
February 22, 2024
Trump’s Never Surrender High Tops embody the worst of sneaker culture
They are almost certainly white-label shoes, sold with a 300 percent retail margin
February 15, 2024
The curious case of Botox babies
One of the most entrenched rules in life is that the grass is always greener on the other side. It seems doubly true for women
Megève’s enduring magic
Celebrities may have moved onto flashier Alpine neighbors, but this iconic French ski resort still has star quality
Plogging: Europe’s bizarre eco-friendly fitness craze
Italy has hosted the championships since they began in 2021, first in Torino and now in Genoa
Mökki life and Moomin minutiae in Finland
We arrive at a stream that eventually leads down to Lake Poikkipuoliainen. Stopping to look, it occurs to me that I’ve not seen another soul in days
In search of the quintessentially British afternoon tea
You could search all fifty states, from sea to shining sea, and never come close to finding a proper scone
How eggs became the symbol of Easter
As the living chicken breaks out of the egg, so the immortal Christ breaks the seal of the tomb
The delight of reading the New York Times Cooking comments
With all their foibles, this community of commenters has become essential to my kitchen