The 6th Floor Blog: How to Read Like a Staff Writer Who Writes About Everything

Susan Dominus recently wrote for the magazine about dieting in France, a mysterious case of twitching teens and the woman who took the fall for JPMorgan Chase.Book I'm reading now:I couldn't bring myself to read Benjamin Anastas's "Too Good To Be True,"...

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The Lives They Lived: The Music They Made

By Wm. Ferguson The Music They Made: A sound collage featuring a sampling of the musicians who died in 2012. Welcome to the fifth annual installment of The Music They Made, a sound collage featuring the musicians who died in the past year....

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Design: Who Made That Champagne Cork?

Jens Mortensen for The New York Times According to legend, a French monk named Dom Pérignon realized that a cork could seal in the fizz and flavor of Champagne after he saw Spanish travelers using tree bark to plug their water gourds. But George...

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The 6th Floor Blog: How to Read Like a Staff Writer Who Writes About Everything

Susan Dominus recently wrote for the magazine about dieting in France, a mysterious case of twitching teens and the woman who took the fall for JPMorgan Chase.Book I'm reading now:I couldn't bring myself to read Benjamin Anastas's "Too Good To Be True,"...

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Design: Who Made That Champagne Cork?

Jens Mortensen for The New York Times According to legend, a French monk named Dom Pérignon realized that a cork could seal in the fizz and flavor of Champagne after he saw Spanish travelers using tree bark to plug their water gourds. But George...

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Lives: Our Family Christmas, Rescinded

Several years ago, my mother announced that she was spending Christmas in Egypt with friends. I flew home anyway, alone, and spent two days making homemade pierogies and sauerkraut and bread for the traditional Carpatho-Rusyn meal we always have on...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Our Top 10 Photo Books of 2012

"What is a book?" Believe it or not, the question was asked more than once in the photo department's informal but very serious deliberations over the best books of 2012. There was much agonizing and jockeying for favorites as we tried to reduce an array...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Jerry Seinfeld, Comedy Athlete

December 24, 2012 | Updated Read a response from Jerry Seinfeld at the end of the post.In this weekend's cover story, Jerry Seinfeld comes across as a kind of comedy jock. As the writer, Jonah Weiner, puts it, Seinfeld "sees himself more as exacting...

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Jerry Seinfeld Intends to Die Standing Up

By Jenny Woodward Finlay MacKay for The New York Times Jerry Seinfeld: How to Write a Joke: The comedian describes the anatomy of his Pop-Tart joke, still a work in progress, and shows his longhand writing process. Jerry Seinfeld began his...

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God Save the British Economy

Illustration by Tadaomi Shibuya Entering the Bank of England is like walking back in time to the old British Empire. Its brass door is attended by the Pinks, men in black hats and pink tailcoats. Vast meeting rooms are decorated with richly colored...

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Lives: Our Family Christmas, Rescinded

Several years ago, my mother announced that she was spending Christmas in Egypt with friends. I flew home anyway, alone, and spent two days making homemade pierogies and sauerkraut and bread for the traditional Carpatho-Rusyn meal we always have on...

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Is the Cure for Cancer Inside You?

Claudia Steinman saw her husband's BlackBerry blinking in the dark. It had gone untouched for several days, in a bowl beside his keys, the last thing on anybody's mind. But about an hour before sunrise, she got up to get a glass of water and, while...

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Is the Cure for Cancer Inside You?

Claudia Steinman saw her husband's BlackBerry blinking in the dark. It had gone untouched for several days, in a bowl beside his keys, the last thing on anybody's mind. But about an hour before sunrise, she got up to get a glass of water and, while...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Jerry Seinfeld, Comedy Athlete

In this weekend's cover story, Jerry Seinfeld comes across as a kind of comedy jock. As the writer, Jonah Weiner, puts it, Seinfeld "sees himself more as exacting athlete than tortured artist." He uses baseball imagery to explain his craft. He identifies...

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Reply All | Letters: The 12.9.12 Issue

If only the powers-that-be in Hollywood and elsewhere would take to heart the main thrust of A. O. Scott's article: that women can play many roles, coming to the forefront as protagonists, whether as a superhero or a kid or a mother or a regular person...

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Lives: Our Family Christmas, Rescinded

Several years ago, my mother announced that she was spending Christmas in Egypt with friends. I flew home anyway, alone, and spent two days making homemade pierogies and sauerkraut and bread for the traditional Carpatho-Rusyn meal we always have on...

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Is the Cure for Cancer Inside You?

Claudia Steinman saw her husband's BlackBerry blinking in the dark. It had gone untouched for several days, in a bowl beside his keys, the last thing on anybody's mind. But about an hour before sunrise, she got up to get a glass of water and, while...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Jerry Seinfeld, Comedy Athlete

In this weekend's cover story, Jerry Seinfeld comes across as a kind of comedy jock. As the writer, Jonah Weiner, puts it, Seinfeld "sees himself more as exacting athlete than tortured artist." He uses baseball imagery to explain his craft. He identifies...

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Talk: Soledad O’Brien Is Betting on Jeff Zucker

Your memoir made your experience growing up in Smithtown, a largely white town on Long Island, sound like a huge drag.It really wasn't. It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community. On the other side, I have five brothers...

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Jerry Seinfeld Intends to Die Standing Up

By Jenny Woodward Finlay MacKay for The New York Times Jerry Seinfeld: How to Write a Joke: The comedian describes the anatomy of his Pop-Tart joke, still a work in progress, and shows his longhand writing process. Jerry Seinfeld began his...

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