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Duty Free December 02, 2024
Consider the peculiarities of Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean midway between the North Pole and the northern coast of Norway: Its territory technically belongs to Norway (though “technically” is doing some heavy lifting here). Its laws a...
The Rich Don’t Dress Like You Think They Do May 16, 2023
Is Kendall Roy a fashion icon?The idea that the weak-willed scion of “Succession” is a figure whose wardrobe is worthy of emulation is an amusing realization to Michelle Matland, the costume designer for the HBO drama that tracks corporate and famili...
It's for You: In Memory of Landlines Lost May 11, 2023
The phone rang in my parents’ Park Avenue apartment. Not a phone. The phone.It was the late 1980s or early 1990s, I forget exactly when. Mobile phones were an unheard-of luxury, even for a double-income household on the Upper East Side. When the narr...
A Cuban Exile Makes It to Miami May 03, 2023
A Violent BackdropStarting in the early fifties, the Castro brothers’ armed insurrection against Batista’s dictatorship was the tension-filled backdrop to my early childhood. Not surprisingly, death, sabotage, terrorism, and political assassinations ...
You Have Permission to Be a Smartphone Skeptic May 02, 2023
Recently, the news that minor British celebrity Sophie Winkelman had pulled her children out of a posh school because students there were going to be issued iPads occasioned the brief return of one of my favorite discursive topics—are the kids all ri...
