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How Can I Update My Millennial Style?

Now that I’m finished having children and my size is stable, I would like to invest in a quality capsule wardrobe, one that works every day and can easily be dressed up for the occasional work presentation or meeting. Here’s my problem: I am stuck in a millennial sense of fashion — tight jeans, a…

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I Love You, but I Hate Your Cooking

Food and love go hand in hand. For Valentine’s Day, we’re exploring this fiery connection in all stages of a relationship, from a first date to living together to breaking up. When Marta Hurgin first met Lisa Wolford, she loved Ms. Wolford’s sharp legal mind, her sense of humor and her empathy toward animals. And…

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Why We’re Living in an Age of Twins

The French writer Hervé Le Tellier’s entertaining novel “The Anomaly” (2020) dramatizes the real-life implications of confronting one’s double, even as a cottage industry of recent nonfiction titles such as “How to Be Multiple” by Helena de Bres (with illustrations by her twin sister, Julia) and William Viney’s “Twinkind” explore the cultural, social and philosophical significance…

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When the Voice You Hear Is Not the Actor You See

In the darkest moments of a family tragedy, when the playwright Mona Pirnot couldn’t find the strength to verbalize her feelings to her boyfriend or her therapist, she tried something a little unorthodox: She typed her thoughts into her laptop, and prompted a text-to-speech program to voice them aloud. It was a coping mechanism that…

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