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    Dom Flemons at the nightclub FitzGerald’s in Berwyn, Ill., outside of Chicago.
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    arts and letters

    Black Folk Musicians Are Reclaiming the Genre

    In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be.

     By Adam Bradley and

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      The Great Mosque of Kufa during Ashura. For Shiite women, Ashura is a quieter affair. One night is dedicated to Zaynab, Hussein’s sister and the Prophet Muhammad’s granddaughter.
      CreditWilliam Keo
      T's Travel Issue

      An Epic Pilgrimage Across Three Great Religions

      Before there was tourism, there was pilgrimage. One writer’s 40,000-mile journey through Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq reveals the ritual’s enduring transformational power.

       By

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      The Italian Swedish fashion designer Marco Zanini at the Märta Måås-Fjetterström studio in Båstad, Sweden, with a rug he created for the company.
      CreditNora Lorek
      People, Places, Things

      Rugs That Ripple Like a Stream

      Plus: a taste for beeswax, rare soaps and more from T’s cultural compendium.

       

  1. On Beauty
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    CreditDavid Chow

    Why More People Are Shaving Their Eyebrows — And How to Do It Yourself

    The dramatic beauty look, once most closely associated with punks, goths and drag queens, is entering the mainstream.

     By

  2. The T List
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    Golden Hour Books opened this fall in Newburgh, N.Y.
    CreditCourtesy of Golden Hour Books

    A Cozy Hudson Valley Bookshop With an Emphasis on Female Authors

    Plus: handcrafted steamer trunks, a new Chinese restaurant in Lower Manhattan and more recommendations from T Magazine.

     

  3. T’s Travel issue
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    The Island of the Sun in Bolivia’s Lake Titicaca, a pilgrimage site since before the Inca Empire.
    CreditStefan Ruiz

    Behind the Story: How a Writer Prepared for a 40,000-Mile Trip

    The dozens of books that T writer Aatish Taseer read before his journey through Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq, and what he learned from each pilgrimage.

     

  4. T’s Travel Issue
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    A tourist camp about 50 miles east of Erdene Zuu monastery in Mongolia.
    CreditRichard Mosse

    The Enduring, Transformational Power of Pilgrimage

    The writer Aatish Taseer embarked on a journey through Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq. What he learned was less a life-altering revelation and more a lesson in curiosity itself.

     By

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    A room at the hotel L’Eldorado in Paris, featuring a four-poster oak bed custom-made by the French woodworker Pascal Michalon.
    CreditBenoit Linero

    Paris’s Newest Hotels Embrace Color and Quirk

    From the Marais to the Champs-Élysées, the French capital is suddenly full of small, exuberantly designed places to stay.

     By

  1. On Architecture
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    The sunken living room of the family beach house, with its sculptural concrete ceiling.
    CreditAna Topoleanu

    Wacky, Curvaceous Houses in Brazil That Feel Like Cocoons

    How a handful of organic 20th-century homes by the architect Jorge Zalszupin came to redefine Modernist design.

     By Michael Snyder and

  2. notes on the culture
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    “Snails at Sunset” (2022) by the American artists Aleia Murawski and Sam Copeland.
    CreditAleia Murawski and Sam Copeland

    Slowly and Steadily, Snails Have Overtaken the Runway

    In an era of expediency, gastropods are oozing into fashion and design — and reminding us that we, too, can take our time.

     By

  3. Objects of Envy
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    CreditClockwise, from top left: © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: © Christie’s Images Limited 2023; Nikreative/Alamy; Courtesy of Zanotta SPA; Universal History Archive/Getty Images; Farrar, Straus & Giroux

    Five Things Tom Dixon Wishes He’d Created

    The designer, who’s debuting a line of portable lighting, looks to geodesic domes and bicycles.

     By

  4. First of Its Kind, Last of Its Kind
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    A 1923 presentation of Hermès dog collars.
    Credit© Hermès

    How Hermès Turned a Dog Collar Into a Bag

    This cabochon-accented accessory nods to the brand’s animal-focused roots.

     By

  5. Food Matters
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    Sheet cakes by Noelle Blizzard of the Philadelphia-based bakery New June.
    CreditPhotograph by Sharon Radisch. Set design by Victoria Petro-Conroy

    How the Humble Sheet Cake Became Top Tier

    In the world of special occasion baked goods, pastry chefs are embracing the birthday party staple for its vast canvas.

     By Martha Cheng and

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T's Nov. 12 Travel Issue

More in T's Nov. 12 Travel Issue ›
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    The Great Mosque of Kufa during Ashura. For Shiite women, Ashura is a quieter affair. One night is dedicated to Zaynab, Hussein’s sister and the Prophet Muhammad’s granddaughter.
    CreditWilliam Keo

    An Epic Pilgrimage Across Three Great Religions

    Before there was tourism, there was pilgrimage. One writer’s 40,000-mile journey through Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq reveals the ritual’s enduring transformational power.

     By

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    The Island of the Sun in Bolivia’s Lake Titicaca, a pilgrimage site since before the Inca Empire.
    CreditStefan Ruiz

    Behind the Story: How a Writer Prepared for a 40,000-Mile Trip

    The dozens of books that T writer Aatish Taseer read before his journey through Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq, and what he learned from each pilgrimage.

     

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    The sunken living room of the family beach house, with its sculptural concrete ceiling.
    CreditAna Topoleanu

    Wacky, Curvaceous Houses in Brazil That Feel Like Cocoons

    How a handful of organic 20th-century homes by the architect Jorge Zalszupin came to redefine Modernist design.

     By Michael Snyder and

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    Sheet cakes by Noelle Blizzard of the Philadelphia-based bakery New June.
    CreditPhotograph by Sharon Radisch. Set design by Victoria Petro-Conroy

    How the Humble Sheet Cake Became Top Tier

    In the world of special occasion baked goods, pastry chefs are embracing the birthday party staple for its vast canvas.

     By Martha Cheng and

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    In the designer Tamsin Saunders’s garden shed turned studio, a pair of hand-painted chairs that once belonged to the British artist Elisabeth Frink flank the Shed’s casement window. The lamp, from the 1920s, is by Walligraph.
    CreditEmli Bendixen

    A Garden Shed Becomes a Retreat Filled With Treasures

    At the far end of her London yard, a British interior designer has created a richly adorned work space.

     By Aimee Farrell and

T 25

More in T 25 ›
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    CreditCockwise from left: Clifford Prince King’s “Lovers in a Field” (2019), courtesy of the artist; © Maika Elan; Melody Melamed’s “Elva” (2021), courtesy of the artist; Lyle Ashton Harris’s “M. Lamar, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 1993” (2015), courtesy of the artist and Salon 94

    The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature

    Six opinionated writers debate — and define — the state of L.G.B.T.Q. writing in order to make a list of the most essential works of fiction, poetry and drama right now.

     By Kurt Soller, Liz Brown, Rose Courteau, Kate Guadagnino, Sara Holdren, Brian Keith Jackson, Evan Moffitt, Miguel Morales, Tomi Obaro, Coco Romack, Michael Snyder and

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    CreditThibault Montamat

    The 25 Essential Dishes to Eat in Paris

    We asked five chefs and culinary experts to determine the most delicious and memorable plates in the food-obsessed French capital. Here are the results.

     By Kurt Soller, Sara Lieberman, Katherine McGrath, Zoey Poll, Lindsey Tramuta and

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    A colony of gentoo penguins mill about in Paradise Bay.
    CreditStefan Ruiz

    The 25 Travel Experiences You Must Have

    A pair of internationally minded writers, a chef, an architect and a landscape photographer made a list of the most extraordinary adventures a person should seek out. Here are the results.

     By Alwa Cooper, Ashlea Halpern, Debra Kamin, Aileen Kwun, Miguel Morales, Dan Piepenbring and

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    Looks from the Courrèges collection, published in The New York Times in March 1965.
    CreditLeombruno-Bodi

    The 25 Most Influential Postwar Women’s Wear Collections

    A group of fashion experts — editors, historians and a designer — convened over Zoom to make a list of the clothes that shaped the world.

     By Nick Haramis, Max Berlinger, Rose Courteau, Jessica Testa and

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    Gordon Parks’s “Harlem Neighborhood, Harlem, New York” (1952), from the photographer’s “Invisible Man” series.
    Credit © The Gordon Parks Foundation

    The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years

    Four writers and one bookseller gathered over Zoom to make a list devoted to fiction in which the city is more than mere setting.

     By Rose Courteau, Kate Guadagnino and

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    This Is Our Music

    The folk musicians Dom Flemons, Kara Jackson, Amythyst Kiah and Tray Wellington discuss the complications of being a Black performer working in a genre now commonly associated with whiteness.

     
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    How to Shave Your Eyebrows

    The makeup artist and model Raisa Flowers shaves her brows and creates a glamorous makeup look.

    By David Chow

     
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    The Man Behind 250 Masks

    Inside the sizable collection amassed by the artist Marcel Dzama, whose work plays with disguise.

    By Julia Halperin

     
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  8. Entertaining With

    A Brunch for Both the Living and the Dead

    The chef Dominica Rice-Cisneros and the artist Momoca wove together Mexican and Japanese harvest traditions for a meal at the restaurant Bombera in Oakland, Calif.

    By Becky Duffett

     
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