Inside the Band Room: Love, Anxiety and Fearless Pop Divas
Contrary to what the movies will tell you, the marching band at Ravenna High School is pretty well respected. This year’s homecoming king and queen were both members. “It…
At This Indian Wrestling Academy, Young Women Find Freedom and Hope
As the winter sun ascends over a mustard farm, pale orange bleeding into sharp yellow, a line of 36 girls all dressed alike — T-shirts, track pants, crew cuts —…
At This Mexican Restaurant, Everyone is Family
When Ivy Berubes, 22, orders a Shirley Temple at the Sarapes Mexican Restaurant bar, they make it for her even though it’s not on the menu. The menu also…
Parting Is Such Sweet Spectacle: A Collector Sells His Hirst, Koons and Calder
The traditional reasons for an auction are death, divorce or debt. Adam Lindemann currently qualifies for none of these, but he’s selling anyway. It is considered verboten for collectors to…
The Magic of Your First Car
The ability to get behind the wheel of a car for the first time and go anywhere is a distinct American rite of passage. For many young people, their…
In This Nigerian Market, Young Women Find a Place of Their Own
At the bustling Yaba Market in Lagos, Nigeria, there is something for everyone. Chatter rises from the traders, whose stalls sprawl over miles of cracked gray concrete and…
The Things We Might Cringe At in the Future
RACHEL RABBIT WHITE, poet We’ve spent years caught on digital hamster wheels, spinning solipsistically in our most base states: angry, jealous, needing to be accepted. It’s almost cute, in a…
Day 31: How The Times Started a Beloved Tradition, in 10 … 9 … 8 …
I have a confession to make. It took me an embarrassing number of years working at The New York Times, in Times Square, before someone finally helped me realize that…
The Olive Green Sweatshirt Goes to Congress
He never donned the political camouflage of a suit. The olive green sweatshirt, with its little Ukrainian trident embroidered at the neck, cargo pants and tactical boots that President Volodymyr…
American Rituals Across the Country
Abiquiú, New Mexico Photography by Justin Kaneps At the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, a remote abbey beside the Chama River in northern New Mexico, some two dozen Benedictine…