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January 17, 2021

What’s It Like to Have Kamala Harris As ‘Momala’? We Asked Her Stepkids.

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October 17, 2020

The Comforts of Clutter

The Look 2020 The Comforts of Clutter Objects saved and accumulated can be a balm for uncertain times. Photographs by Text by Oct. 17, 2020 ImageAn […]
August 8, 2020

Katie Hill, Who Stepped Down From Congress After Nude Photos, Publishes Book

If Katie Hill were a different person, she might have gone away and found religion. Perhaps she would have tearfully apologized, a dutiful husband by her […]
May 22, 2020

Turning Your Backyard Into a Vacation Spot

Savannah Shyne has big plans for the summer, and none of them involve leaving her backyard in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. On her quarter-acre lot, she’s managed to […]
March 11, 2020

The King of D.I.Y. Dwellings

BOLINAS, Calif. — Self-sufficiency is like perfection, said Lloyd Kahn, the guru of guerrilla architecture and dean of all things D.I.Y. “You never quite get there, […]
February 21, 2020

The Work Diary of a Hairdresser So Coveted, She Travels by Private Jet

Jayne Matthews thinks that most hairstylists are doing it wrong: “A person takes a pair of scissors and cuts the ends, maybe gives the hair some […]
February 1, 2020

Somewhere Between a Shared Cab and a Private Jet, It’s the Commuter Helicopter

Private jets are the ultimate symbol of our new Gilded Age: Ever more popular with the very wealthy, they have induced a sort of hand-wringing among […]
December 6, 2019

The Topanga Tea Ceremony

LOS ANGELES — A reasonable question one who has never attended a tea ceremony might have in advance of attending their very first tea ceremony is: […]
October 11, 2019

Who Would Firebomb a Homeless Encampment?

LOS ANGELES — The incendiary device came shooting toward the homeless encampment without words or warning. Arthur Garza, 29, heard a pop against his tent, then […]
June 3, 2016

Cover Story: A Young Man Goes West

A Young Man Goes West By STEVEN KURUTZ June 3, 2016 Cover Story By STEVEN KURUTZ June 3, 2016 Zach Both was living in Boston and working as an art […]