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Why Having a Dog Is So Good for Your Mental Health November 26, 2024
Taking care of a dog is a big responsibility, no doubt. And yes, sometimes it can even be a little frustrating. My six-month-old Shih-Tzu, Alfie, is still convinced that Balenciaga 3XLs are the ultimate chew toy. (He’s on a real shoelace kick, so I g...
Thoughts on Bob Dylan and the Border November 22, 2024
There are many categories of Bob Dylan songs: historical biographies and spiritual devotionals, oddball shaggy-dog stories, love songs and cranky breakup numbers. All of these are great, but my absolute favorite is the travelogue: where our weirdo ch...
Rafael Nadal’s Last Stand November 19, 2024
Rafael Nadal is afraid of the dark. He has an intense fear of storms. He is afraid of animals, including dogs. (“I doubt their intentions,” he wrote in his autobiography, “Rafa.”) He doesn’t like to swim in deep water, even though he grew up on an is...
Do Dogs Know What Art Is? October 21, 2024
Do dogs know what art is?Oscar is a big, “free-spirited” Lab mix. My husband and I adopted him when he was just a few months old. We’ve lived together as a little family for over a decade. When Oscar was a puppy, I did a one-semester residency at Bar...
Scent of a Man October 17, 2024
The huge solemnity of his eyes, grave and sober as a child’s but with a spark of ancient, euphoric irony back in there somewhere. The gangster-ish heaviness of his hands, dynastic hands, Godfather hands. The too-big head. The carved, impassive face t...
On 'Megalopolis' October 07, 2024
After three decades occupied with for-hire work, viniculture, handcrafted “little” films, and experiments in live cinema, Francis Ford Coppola is swinging for the fences. Megalopolis, his paid-out-of-pocket, decades-in-gestation passion project, and ...
My Childhood Toy Poodles September 13, 2024
OriginIn 1989, my brother wanted a dog. He was twelve. I was six. We lived in suburban Central Florida. We found Binky in a newspaper listing. At Binky’s house, I pet Binky’s mom and she ignored me, walking away with straight posture. Binky’s parents...
Vivienne September 12, 2024
Vesta Furio is grinding her teeth as she often does in the deep sleep hour before waking. Franz, whom her father named after the artist Franz Kline, sleeps beside her, and the crepuscular sounds emanating from her mouth stir him awake. He leaves the ...
Why You Should "Rawdog" Parenting September 09, 2024
What do I mean by this, you ask?Allow me to explain!First, for those who don’t know, “raw dogging” is a crude term used to describe the act of intercourse without using protection. But it has been hilariously repurposed by the internet to describe su...
On Rachel Kushner's 'Creation Lake' September 05, 2024
Rachel Kushner ’s fourth novel, Creation Lake, shuttles between the story of Sadie Smith, a spy-for-hire tasked with observing Le Moulin, a radical environmentalist commune in rural southwest France, and the intercepted emails of Bruno Lacombe, a ca...
Demi Moore’s Glorious Return September 04, 2024
“I’m warning you: She loves to dominate a teddy bear,” Demi Moore says as her teacup Chihuahua, Pilaf, toddles into the room. Moore, perched on a kitchen stool in her Los Angeles home, watches her dog with a sly smile. “You’re going to see some humpi...
Kristi Noem’s Team Told Her to Nix the Dog Story May 08, 2024
Kristi Noem’s story about killing her dog made headlines across America. But it wasn’t news to people who worked on her first book, where the tale made it into a draft of the memoir before the publishing team nixed it.Then, as now, Noem wanted the st...
Self-Portrait with Browser History May 06, 2024
Honor Levy shot to quasi-fame in 2020 when the New Yorker published ‘Good Boys’, which is less a short story than a hysterical collection of fragments. The central premise is that boys call girls bitches, but only some girls. The narrator is desperat...
Her First Book May 06, 2024
What is a voice of a generation?” Honor Levy asks me at Corner Bar on Canal Street. “Is it the most controversial voice? The first person to write in the way that everybody writes? The person that most people hate or love?”She’s not quite sure she qu...
I Was Raised by Dog Breeders May 01, 2024
I had the pleasure — my therapist says the misfortune — of growing up in a doggy dynasty. My grandpa showed dogs at Westminster, my father’s a dog breeder, my mom owned the Miami area’s biggest puppy shop — the list of dog industry relatives goes on ...
