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Taking the long view.
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12/21/2023

Last week, we recorded the first-ever live taping of our podcast in front of an audience. joined the chef on stage at , part of Bottura’s nonprofit, where the two discussed, among other things, “Slow Food Fast Cars” (), Bottura and his wife, ’s, new recipe-slash-interiors book; the Modena, Italy, art of aging balsamic vinegar; and how Bottura thinks about the role of time both literally and philosophically, in and out of the kitchen. Stay tuned for the episode’s release in March next year—the kick-off to Season 9.
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12/20/2023

Curator Helen Molesworth (), author of the new book “Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing About Art” (), discusses her lifelong engagement with the work of Marcel Duchamp; the transformative power of a great conversation; and the personal and professional freedom she has found in recent years as a roving, independent voice in the art world.

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12/18/2023

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12/11/2023

On the latest episode of At a Distance—and after four incredible years and 165 other conversations, our grand finale!—Rebecca Solnit, the author of books including “A Paradise Built in Hell” (2009) and “Orwell’s Roses” (2021) and the co-editor of the new collection of essays “Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility,” discusses the long view as a “mind-blowing” way of looking at the world, why the majority of people tend to be altruistic and resourceful in a disaster, and why the climate crisis requires eschewing a scarcity mindset for one of abundance.

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12/08/2023

All too often, gifts that bring initial delight end their lives in dusty corners, attic nooks, or worse still, the dump. Nifty gadgets’ batteries go unreplaced, coffee-table books get swapped out, kitchen utensils lose their luster. This gifting season, we searched far and wide for gifts that would stand the test of time—ones that are durable, made to last, and, most importantly, will actually be used for years or even decades to come.

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12/07/2023

lives by the Italian adage “festina lente,” or, “make haste slowly.” As a restaurateur and the co-owner (with her husband, the chef ) of the three-Michelin-starred restaurant Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy; its sister restaurant, the more casual bistro ; and Ferrari’s , as well as the co-founder of the nonprofit and the social start-up , it’s a fitting modus operandi.

This “festina lente” outlook is also encapsulated by the title of her and Bottura’s latest book, “Slow Food, Fast Cars” (), a recipe-slash-interiors book that aims to capture the sensory and culinary experience of staying at their guest house, . The volume collates 85 recipes for breakfasts, brunches, and snacks, including frittatas, focaccias, pastries, and preserves, with personal essays and photographic spreads of the house’s interior design, cars, and countryside landscape.

In this week’s Media Diet, we speak with Gilmore about the media she turns to to stay informed, find escape, and embrace her inner child, from Modena’s local newspapers and the podcast .emergency to Peter and the Wolf.

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12/06/2023

The architect , principal of the New York–based firm , talks about the links she sees between Slow Food and her architecture, the intuitive aspects of form-making, and why she considers architecture “the mother of all arts.”

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12/04/2023

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12/01/2023

Our December 2023 Book of the Month pick is “To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul” () by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet . This searing memoir travels through time, relationships, and Smith’s own life to illuminate the lasting legacy of racism in our country. As noted by the subtitle, the work is indeed “a plea for the American soul,” a personal understanding of what the past can teach us and how we learn from it, if we choose to.

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11/29/2023

The MacArthur “genius” fellow and landscape architect Walter Hood, creative director and founder of in Oakland, California, and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning at , discusses the intersection of social justice and landscape architecture, his arguments against what we traditionally deem “memorials” or “monuments,” and the power of language to literally shape the world around us.

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11/27/2023

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11/20/2023

On the latest episode of our At a Distance podcast, the civil rights activist, award-winning journalist, and former NPR and CNN foreign correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks about her book “My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives” (); why understanding history is like a form of armor in a world full of misinformation; and the transformational, life-altering notion of viewing herself as a “queen” from a young age.

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11/17/2023

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11/15/2023

On Ep. 102 of our podcast, , the author of the bestselling novels “Free Food for Millionaires” and “Pachinko,” talks about the complex role of time in the latter book, her miraculous recovery from chronic liver disease, and why she likens short-story writing to polishing diamonds.

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11/10/2023

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11/08/2023

On Ep. 101 of our podcast, the architect and furniture maker , president and creative director of , talks about her family’s time spent in a Japanese internment camp during World War II; the enduring “karma yoga” influence of the Indian philosopher and spiritual leader , whom her father, , once studied under and worked for as an architect; and why her father considered his work “an antidote to the modern world.”

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11/03/2023

Our November 2023 Book of the Month is “Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing About Art” () by the Los Angeles–based writer and curator , host of the Dialogues podcast from .

In this collection of 24 essays, Molesworth explores the works of artists including Ruth Asawa, D**e Blair, Noah Davis, Marcel Duchamp, , and . “Molesworth doesn’t aim to lecture her reader, but instead engages them and points to the things that ‘pleased, confused, bothered, disturbed, or confounded’ her,” writes the Brooklyn-based writer in her review. “Open Questions is more than a collection of art writing; it is a meditation on seeing and feeling, on connecting and thought-making. Molesworth gives that power to the viewer, and in a way, gives them the chance to be the curator themselves.”

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10/27/2023

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10/25/2023

This week marks a momentous occasion for our podcast: our 100th episode. There’s no one we’d rather be celebrating this moment with than the hospitality impresario and Studio 54 co-founder . On the episode, he discusses his tried-and-true design philosophies and definition of luxury today; his admiration for the visionary thinking of , , and ; and the enduring aura of Studio 54.

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10/24/2023

In our latest Big Interview, reflects on the data explored in his new book, “Now Is Better” ().

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10/23/2023

On the latest episode of our At a Distance podcast, the culinary historian Sarah Lohman (), author of the new book “Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods” (.w.norton) talks about the importance of engaging with local foodways, why “the idea that eating is universally bad is woefully unaware of class and racial conflicts,” and how Indigenous communities across the U.S. are fighting to protect their heritage.

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10/20/2023

The Austrian-born, New York–based graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister has a rare knack for tackling broad, universal subjects—happiness and beauty, most notably—and distilling them in illuminating ways that offer new insights. For his latest project, the book “Now Is Better,” just out from Phaidon, he’s taken on the subject of long-term thinking, arguing that never before in human history have things been better for us as a species.

In our latest Big Interview, Sagmeister speaks about why all this data is giving him optimism and hope for our present and future; why humans have a propensity for short-term thinking and consuming negative news, and how to help change that; and his take on the ongoing, time-honored “What makes something art versus design?” debate.

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10/19/2023

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10/13/2023

Until February 4, 2024, the Brooklyn Museum will have an (unofficial) new name: the Crooklyn Museum. As of last weekend, the fifth floor is hosting “Spike Lee: Creative Sources,” an immersive exhibition featuring more than 450 objects—ranging from artwork, sports jerseys, and film posters to photographs and musical instruments—from the award-winning filmmaker’s personal collection. “The exhibition demonstrates how you get from A to Z,” curator says, “not in the sense of ‘this is the process of making a film,’ but ‘this is the process of how Lee gets inspired and fueled.’” Through seven thematic sections—“Black History and Culture,” “Family,” “Brooklyn,” “Photography,” “Cinema History,” “Music,” and “Sports”—museum visitors are taken on a dynamic journey through Lee’s creative process.

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10/12/2023

When it comes to astute and unvarnished observations about pressing issues of our time, never fails to deliver. Over the past decade, the writer, professor, editor, social commentator, and contributing opinion writer has gained international recognition for her sharp, subversive output across genres, including her short story collection “Difficult Women” (2017); her novel “An Untamed State” (2014); her memoir, “Hunger” (2017); and her best-selling essay collection, “Bad Feminist” (2014). Earlier this week, Gay released her latest book, “Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business” (), a collection of her nonfiction pieces from the past decade covering a kaleidoscopic range of topics, from state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, to women’s rights post-Dobbs, to online disinformation and the limits of empathy.

In this week’s Media Diet, she speaks with us about the media landscape that informs her and her work, which includes author interviews in the , procedural dramas like “Law & Order: SVU,” and the show “The Equalizer” with .

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10/06/2023

Our October 2023 Book of the Month is “Roman Stories” (), the Pulitzer Prize–winning author ’s latest collection of short stories, beautifully translated from Italian to English by Lahiri and Todd Portnowitz.

In these nine probing tales, Lahiri enters a broad diasporic world existing entirely within Rome, the city in which she has lived, on and off, for the past 11 years. It is a magnificent book, reflective of—and extending out of—the time she has spent in the Eternal City, but with giant fictional leaps. Through characters who experience at turns, among other things, xenophobia and nationalism, violence, racism, anxiety, and various social and cultural divisions, Lahiri explores what it means to adapt to Rome, to adopt it as a home, to decipher its particularities and peculiarities as an outsider—and also, in some cases, to experience it as an insider.

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10/05/2023

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10/04/2023

On Ep. 98 of our podcast, the artist, master potter, and author , widely known for his best-selling family memoir “The Hare with Amber Eyes,” talks about his infatuation with Japan, his affinity for the life and work of the Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), and the roles of rhythm and breath in his work.

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10/02/2023

Every year, the fall brings a global gauntlet of gallery openings, museum galas, and art fairs ( in London and Paris+ in October, in New York and in November, and the perennial year-end juggernaut Miami Beach in December, to name a few). In an effort to cut through the noise, our editors selected five must-see exhibitions this season, including “Emerging Ecologies” at and a retrospective at the .

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09/27/2023

The California-based multidisciplinary creative and writer Lindsey Bro ()—known especially for her book, “Thermal: Saunas, Hot Springs & Baths”—has, throughout her career, embarked on odysseys within the realms of bathing culture, exploring the allure and cultural importance of warm pools, saunas, and hot springs.

In our latest interview for The Good Life, Bro discusses the core elements of bathing rituals, illuminating how ancient wisdom—from the enduring traditions of the Turkish hammam to the transformative Japanese onsen—harmoniously coexists with contemporary wellness practices.

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09/22/2023

This past Wednesday, made a visit to Chelsea’s High Line, where a certain kind of science fair—coinciding with New York City Climate Week—is taking place through tomorrow: the inaugural Climate Science Fair, hosted by in collaboration with the climate-tech nonprofit . With the aim of cultivating optimism and impactful conversations about our collective future, the community-driven event features a keynote speech by the scientist and TV personality as well as presentations, performances, workshops, talks, soundscapes, and demos by a wide swath of leaders and innovators across sustainable agriculture, clean energy, textile recycling, and more.

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09/21/2023

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09/20/2023

On Ep. 97 of our podcast, the artist and photographer —’s identical twin brother—talks about what it was like to grow up as an identical twin; his unusual and decidedly dysfunctional upbringing; photography as a device for commemoration; and his deep pictorial explorations of the climates, geographies, and landscapes of the American West.

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09/18/2023

On the latest episode of our At a Distance podcast, David W. Orr, editor of the new book “Democracy in a Hotter Time” () and a professor at , discusses the climate crisis as an obviously bipartisan issue; why building “Democracy 4.0” must ultimately be a localized, grassroots mission; and why, in our “long emergency” that is the climate crisis, we must “stretch our hearts to reach out to other species and future generations.”

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09/14/2023

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09/13/2023

On Ep. 96 of our podcast, the theater director and playwright talks about his personal philosophies around silence and sound, the intersections of architecture and theater, , and his enduring legacy as the founder of the Watermill Center.

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09/12/2023

on his fantastical fashion philosophy in our latest Big Interview.

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09/11/2023

In the whirring, flashing, globe-spanning machine that is American popular culture, Memphis, Tennessee—population 620,000—operates as one of those miraculous little cogs that performs a hundred vital functions without ever wearing out. Unfortunately, that’s not quite how Memphians tend to see their city these days, with its poverty and unemployment rates at nearly twice the national average.

The city’s new Tom Lee Park, however—open as of last weekend—has challenged this enduring pessimism. Designed by the celebrated Chicago-based firm , in tandem with landscape specialists and a host of accomplished collaborators, the 30-acre waterfront greenspace could be just what the city needs to remind of its vaunted place in the cultural canon and help push it forward.

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09/08/2023

If there’s anything that cares even more deeply about than clothes, it has to be color. Since establishing his namesake fashion label in 2016, the Baton Rouge–born, Brooklyn-based fashion designer has quickly gained as much notoriety for his bold, kaleidoscopic color palette and poppy patterns as he has for his billowing, exquisitely silhouetted dresses. Eschewing—or at least pushing—any boundaries between “high” and “low,” “hard” and “soft,” or “masculine” and “feminine,” Rogers brings a fluid, unpretentious perspective to fashion, one that has swiftly landed him on an episode of “Gossip Girl,” red carpets, and into the illustrious halls of the in New York.

In our latest Big Interview, Rogers speaks to his various approaches to color, at once logical, esoteric, and instinctual; his new Carte Blanche paint-color and wallpaper-print collaboration with ; and the powerful links he sees between comic books and fashion design.

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