[ad_1] “The Pacific itself is so looming and crazy,” says David Moltz, D.S. & Durga’s self-taught perfumer, who grew up in the seaside town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. He first caught a glimpse of that “massive” expanse of water during a band tour through Northern California; years later, a lingering feeling […]
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Clint Smith Recalibrates With Head-Clearing Runs and Naptime R&B
[ad_1] “It Is Halloween Night and You Are Dressed as a Hot Dog” is one of those poems in Above Ground, Clint Smith’s luminous new collection, that plays like a home movie. We know the scene, or some equally winsome version of it, so we are primed for this glimpse […]
Tamar Adler Powers Through Tennis Class and a Mountain of Homemade Breadcrumbs
[ad_1] A martini dirtied with the last of the caper juice. Egg salad sizzled into fried rice. Sauce for noodles born inside a scraped-out nut-butter jar. Sad greens sorted with a “bullish, unwavering practicality.” The encyclopedic array that Tamar Adler presents in The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A–Z, a follow-up […]
Mya-Rose Craig Recalibrates With Sunday Night Resets and Bird-Attuned Walks
[ad_1] “If I had to choose one bird as my mascot,” Mya-Rose Craig writes in her memoir Birdgirl, “it would be the Harpy Eagle: fearsome raptors, named for the harpies of Greek mythology (part woman, part bird, and utterly terrifying).” It is an unexpected pairing, to judge from the self-assured […]
Kate Berlant Stays in Tune With Begged-For Facials and Fleetwood Mac
[ad_1] A microsuede voice pipes in with a familiar prompt: Take this time to settle into your seat. Chatter in the room has quieted, lights dimmed, sitz bones rooted into cushioned chairs. A meditation of a sort has begun, only the collective attention is not directed inward (oceanic breathing, relaxed […]
Susan Korn Stays Balanced With 13,000-Step Schleps and Phone-Free Mornings
[ad_1] What qualifies as arm candy in Susan Korn’s book? One day it might be a beaded Susan Alexandra bag decorated with a sunny-side-up egg. Or a tiny, wearable nod to the dirty martini—its size seemingly suited to packing extra olives for the road. There’s a Milton Glaser tribute by […]
Rebeca Huntt Keeps Cool With Vipassana Meditation and Vintage Slip Dresses
[ad_1] “Brave, stubborn, narcissistic.” With those three defiant words, Rebeca Huntt’s voiceover seems to preempt the critical response to Beba, her debut documentary that doubles as an impressionistic memoir. “From the early days of writing this film, I didn’t want Beba to be an archetype or a saint. Quite the […]