YYou can take two seemingly contradictory lessons from historian David Turner’s new book on disability in the UK. First, worryingly little has changed for disabled people since the beginning of the modern era (the book’s first few stories, about 17th-century men and women trying to prove they were disabled enough to receive parish support to
If you ask me (and I imagine other women), there’s no greater hell than trying to buy pants. Every pair of pants fits differently, and sizes can be extremely inconsistent across different brands. Now add the dimension of trying to find functional, durable pants that can perform well outdoors. At times, it feels like I
Regime change: inside Donald Trump’s imperial presidencyBy Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan In January 2026, The New York Times asked Donald Trump why, after telling his family not to make new business deals in foreign countries during his first term as president, he was now allowing them to do so. He replied: “Because I found
IIt’s been a decade since Olivia Laing published The Lonely City, a blend of memoir and cultural analysis on the isolation of urban life. Lange – who is non-binary – had moved to Manhattan after a love affair that ended abruptly. Once there, they were surprised by their feelings of loneliness. Laing observed that “You
I’m very selective about backpacks, and while Osprey Tempest Velocity 30 It’s not perfect, it’s close enough. The backpack, especially for women, is one of the most subjective accessories. What works beautifully for one body may be completely ineffective on another body, and in my 8 years of mountaineering, backpacking, and hiking, I’ve only really
Plot of A Little Bit Bad Sounds like the setup for a joke: “Like, this white woman is lusting after her hot Chicano roofer?” The narrator Perdita Jungfrau is describing her situation. “Yuck.” It is 2009 and Perdita is 39 when she meets 25-year-old Nando, who is working on the roof next door. “Burned out”
Over three decades, Ghosh has produced a brilliant series of consistently smart, consistently exploratory novels. He’s at Ohtani-level, his ambition made it all the more unrealistic. Dude’s always swinging for the fences. Which brings us to Ghosh’s latest novel. How to describe the wild “Ghost-Eye”? “Ghost-Eye” is about Varsha, a 3-year-old girl from Calcutta in
TeaIt’s the last day of maternity leave, and an unnamed mother of two has decided to celebrate a “Yes Day” full of treats and good feelings. Of course it doesn’t go according to plan: behavior is lacking, misjudged and underappreciated; Good feelings are fleeting, quickly extinguished by worry, guilt, or humiliation. This familiar-sounding scenario is
TeaHere in hell there is a special place reserved for those doctors who trade their authority, status and medical training to make money out of public fear and gullibility. Every time I scroll past a qualified therapist promoting elixirs promising youthful vigor, cellulite-free thighs or a gut microbiome makeover, I want to puke their insidious
Writing in line with Cixous’s demands, Magalleque also uses these revelations to help understand her life, deftly moving the reader between her distant past and her present, personal encounters with desire, miscarriage, birth, ambition. She describes her grandmother’s cooking and self-deception, reconstructing the violence of her own labor and delivery. Much of the world his