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Can genetic engineering bring back the American Chestnut?
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Can genetic engineering bring back the American Chestnut?
Gabriel Popkin New York Times Magazine May 2020 30min Permalink
For the Zulu club, a black social organization in New Orleans, Mardi Gras was a joy. The coronavirus made it a tragedy.
Linda Villarosa New York Times Magazine Apr 2020 30min Permalink
The chef/writer behind New York City’s Prune revises her original dreams for the restaurant in the wake of closing because of COVID.
Gabrielle Hamilton New York Times Magazine Apr 2020 30min Permalink
The strange life of a 16-year-old model.
Jennifer Egan New York Times Magazine Feb 1996 35min Permalink
A Covid diary: This is what I saw as the pandemic engulfed our hospitals.
Helen Ouyang New York Times Magazine Apr 2020 45min Permalink
National economies collapse; species go extinct; political movements rise and fizzle. But—somehow, for some reason—Weird Al keeps rocking.
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Apr 2020 35min Permalink
At 28, I thought my life was pretty settled. Nope.
Jazmine Hughes New York Times Magazine Mar 2020 20min Permalink
A dispatch from a caretaker.
Jessica Lustig New York Times Magazine Mar 2020 15min Permalink
It began with a series of anonymous sexual-harassment complaints that the writer knew were false. But the truth was far stranger.
Sarah Viren New York Times Magazine Mar 2020 35min Permalink
A season with the New England Patriots’ 37-year-old quarterback.
Mark Leibovich New York Times Magazine Jan 2015 30min Permalink
Katrina’s floodwaters had knocked out the power. Evacuation of the sickest patients seemed impossible. So the doctors at Memorial did what they thought was right, even if they knew it was a crime.
Sheri Fink New York Times Magazine Aug 2009 55min Permalink
How a dating app helped a generation of Chinese come out of the closet.
Yi-Ling Liu New York Times Magazine Mar 2020 30min Permalink
Hundreds of thousands of single-family homes are now in the hands of giant companies—squeezing renters for revenue and putting the American dream even further out of reach.
Francesca Mari New York Times Magazine Mar 2020 40min Permalink
Medical examiners provide crucial insights into public health and safety. What happens when we don’t have enough of them?
Jordan Kisner New York Times Magazine Feb 2020 20min Permalink
Can the king of ultrarunning conquer a race as short as the marathon?
Joseph Bien-Kahn New York Times Magazine Feb 2020 30min Permalink
A profile of Jenny Offill, whose latest novel addresses climate collapse.
Parul Sehgal New York Times Magazine Feb 2020 20min Permalink
The inside story of the president and Deutsche Bank, his lender of last resort.
David Enrich New York Times Magazine Feb 2020 30min Permalink
As the city is transformed by gentrification and inequality, comedies have begun depicting it as a place of magical connection.
Willy Staley New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 15min Permalink
When Zulhumar Isaac’s parents disappeared amid a wave of detentions of ethnic minorities, she had to play a perilous game with the state to get them back.
Sarah A. Topol New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 50min Permalink
On the shared life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan:
The girls’ doctors believe it is entirely possible that the sensory input that one girl receives could somehow cross that bridge into the brain of the other. One girl drinks, another girl feels it.
Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine May 2011 25min Permalink
On Rudolph Giuliani and the enduring power of shamelessness.
Jonathan Mahler New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 35min Permalink
The enigmatic leader of the U.A.E. may soon emerge as the region’s most powerful figure. What does he really want?
A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it.
Jennifer Kahn New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 30min Permalink
“I wanted to be prepared for the worst nature could throw at me. But the real threat turned out to be human.”
Heidi Julavits New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 25min Permalink
Home-funeral guides believe that families can benefit from tending to—and spending time with—the bodies of their deceased.
Maggie Jones New York Times Magazine Dec 2019 35min Permalink