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His prodigious memory grew out of childhood deprivation. And landed him on ''The Ed Sullivan Show.'' Harry Lorayne B. 1926 His prodigious memory grew out of childhood deprivation. And landed [...]

When Michael Stipe was little, his parents called him Mr. Mouse. He was a scurrier. As soon as he could stand, he ran, and when he ran, he ran until [...]

There are two ways to contemplate the question Where do we go when we die? One is philosophical, ultimately unanswerable; the other is logistical. Humans, being human, have tended to [...]

Even as climate change upends our lives, we seem set on doing things the way we've always done them. It was a dress rehearsal in which everyone seemed to be [...]

It looked as if a war was coming. It was. One Sunday last month, in a northern Italian town called Ivrea, the facades of historic buildings were covered with plastic [...]

Most Americans think they know the story of the pandemic. But when I immersed myself in a Covid oral-history project, I realized how much we're still missing. Notice your resistance [...]

Paula Tupou Bloomfield Tahi B. 2006 West Valley City, Utah By Jon Mooallem Paula injured his leg in the most Paula way imaginable. It happened two summers ago, when he [...]

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . The filmmaker Noah Baumbach started hurtling through Hollywood's award season in [...]

One night, many years ago, two friends spotted something extraordinary hanging on the wall of a restaurant in Spain, and they knew, right away, that they'd need to send me [...]

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . By the time I pulled into Spokane, I was furious at [...]

The article focuses on Michael Stipe's journey to create his first solo album after the dissolution of R.E.M. Topics include Stipe's creative process, challenges, and interactions with other musicians like Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Matty Healy. The narrative explores Stipe's insecurities, the impact of his past success, and the complexities of his artistic evolution.

The article focuses on individuals who have chosen to send their remains, involving ashes and Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) into space as a unique form of afterlife. Topics include the motivations and experiences of these individuals, the history of space-related experiments involving students, and the broader cultural impact of space exploration and science fiction on people's perspectives about life and death.

To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. ''So they required rewrites?'' Charlie Kaufman asked. Yes, I explained. I'd just [...]

The fire was already growing at a rate of one football field per second when Tamra Fisher woke up on the edge of Paradise, Calif., feeling that her life was [...]

The whale sighting happened right away, minutes into Day 1. Jon, Dave and I had just been dropped off on a remote Alaskan shoreline, an hour and a half by [...]

The image of ski jumping burned into the brains of generations of Americans is actually the image of a man not ski jumping. In 1970, during a competition in Germany, [...]

He was small, bald, smiley, unthreatening; he liked to find a corner, blend in, take notes. It always amazed him: everything you could see, just by looking -- also, everything [...]

Byline: BY JON MOOALLEM NISHANT CHOKSI MR. KNOW-IT-ALL Q: I CATCH MYSELF PEEKING AT OTHER PEOPLE'S TEXTS ON THE SUBWAY. AM I THE WORST? A: Imagine being eaten by a [...]

Byline: BY JON MOOALLEM CHRISTOPH NIEMANN Q: I'M MARRIED. IS IT WRONG TO GET A TINDER ACCOUNT AND LOOK AT IT, EVEN IF I HAVE NO INTENTION OF CONTACTING ANYONE? [...]

The trees are so big that it would be cowardly not to deal with their bigness head on. They are very, very big. You already knew this -- they're called [...]

Joachim Neander was a 17th-century Calvinist theologian who often hiked through a valley outside Düsseldorf, Germany, writing hymns. Neander understood everything around him as a manifestation of the Lord's will [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDFirst, the back story, because, B.J. Miller has found, the back story is unavoidable when you are missing three limbs. Miller was a sophomore at Princeton when, one Monday [...]

Cross Country: Fifteen Years and 90,000 Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America With Lewis and Clark, a Lot of Bad Motels, a Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, [...]

The article reports that resemblance to ugly Spanish bullfighter taught me about the dilemma beneath every human face. Topics include flashes of the humor and pugnacity that have made squash's forceful personalities; and Sobhy, a Long Island native, has carried the hopes of American squash won the world junior championship in 2010.

In October, State Senator Raymond J. Lesniak introduced a bill to end bear hunting in New Jersey for five years. He called it ''Pedals' Law.'' In 2003, the State of [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPH NIEMANN MR. KNOW-IT-ALL Q: I AM HOUSE-SITTING FOR FRIENDS. THEY LEFT THEIR NEST CAM ON. DO I HAVE A RIGHT TO COVER THE LENS? BY JON MOOALLEM A: [...]

Byline: by JON MOOALLEM PLATON THE GIANT IMAGINE YOU ARE Of all STEVEN SPIELBERG'S talents, none is greater than his ability to capture the ardor, heartbreak, and beauty of childhood. [...]

Gavin Pretor-Pinney decided to take a sabbatical. It was the summer of 2003, and for the last 10 years, as a sideline to his graphic-design business in London, he and [...]

ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW SMART ANIMALS ARE? By Frans de Waal Illustrated. 340 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $27.95. THE GENIUS OF BIRDS By Jennifer Ackerman Illustrated. [...]

Byline: BY JON MOOALLEM CHRISTOPH NIEMANN MRKNOWITALL@WIRED.COM Q: I'VE BEEN INVITED TO A WEDDING THAT HAS AN INSTAGRAM #HASHTAG. AM I REUIRED TO USE IT WHEN I POST PHOTOS? A: [...]

The article discusses that the photographer Sohei Nishino travels to a new city to work, he will typically spend a month exploring the place on foot, ceaselessly taking pictures as he goes. It mentions that Nishino cuts up the resulting contact sheets and begins physically assembling those images into a tremendous panorama.

Byline: BY JON MOOALLEM CHRISTOPH NIEMANN MR. KNOW-IT-ALL Q: IS FLIRTING ON LINKEDIN LESS WEIRD THAN ON OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA? AFTER ALL, YOUR RSUM VOUCHES FOR YOU IN A SUBSTANTIVE [...]

Byline: BY JON MOOALLEM CHRISTOPH NIEMANN Q: IF MY SPOUSE AND I SIT WATCHING OUR OWN STUFF ON OUR OWN DEVICES, WILL WE DRIFT APART? A: Ever seen Poldark ? [...]