Swimming the Seine

Men’s neckties provide rich fodder for topic matter. The tie is a remarkable piece of nothing...

In adolescence, I craved rapini and gai lan, salty and oil-slick, perfumed with garlic. In adulthood, I’ve grown fond of cabbage...

It was the arrival of the personal computer that amalgamated all previous trends and technologies, converting the home into a neoliberal workspace...

The obvious righteousness of these online crusaders meant they rarely recognised themselves as the aggressors or bullies...

TikTok is a sign of the future, which already feels like a thing of the past...

For a guy who was supposed to be a kind of burly farm animal as an athlete, there was a lot of mental derring-do in Ruth’s game...

You cannot understand this building’s purpose, but you  know that you have just encountered a poetic even mythic work of architecture...

It is commonly said, even by the English themselves, that English cooking is the worst in the world. Now that is simply not true...

If the Premier League was to market itself as a slick global brand, it needed a product that looked good on television. Muddy, bobbly, patchy pitches would not do...

They say that people at the last moment experience a bright light as they enter into a realm of brilliance. You see it represented in paintings of the Resurrection. Everything I was on the verge of losing flew through my imagination...

Not long ago, niche sports cracked the national consciousness only as punch lines. In a now-iconic Seinfeld episode, George Costanza gets a severance package from the Yankees...

New boxers move among the outlines of those who fought before them, escaping nothing...

The tonal balance of a wine changes substantially as the wine evolves on the palate just as the tonal balance of a musical work shifts as instruments enter, pause, or shift their dynamics as the music unfolds...

After the game was over, the parents and kids all met at the coach’s house to have pizza and celebrate the season...

The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...

People are hungry for human interaction; they want to display their humanity, and they have fewer opportunities to do that over the course of their days...

Assumptions got tested, predictions again found presumptuous, and predilections and presuppositions exposed. And the utmost importance of audience was heralded, as fans insisted on being a part of the game...

The site has been holy since antiquity, perhaps explaining why Notre Dame feels spiritual, even for nonbelievers. A Druid shrine and then a pagan temple dedicated to Jupiter, the chief of the Roman gods, are believed to have stood on this spot...

Is the title limited to hard-news reporters? Are bloggers journalists? Are producers at media corporations and TV programs journalists?

A striking example is the distinction that one family made between using digital technology as a producer/creator and using it merely as a consumer; the parents sought to ensure that their children fall into the first group, with the aim of one day becoming a leader in the new...