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No. 156
July 9, 2022
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Heal
Dr. Baoku Liu
Though the Google Maps listing for Baoku Liu reads “Baoku Liu, MD,” the letters that hang behind the front desk of his office…
Clean
Branch Basics
The irony that we clean our homes with products that are not themselves clean—i.e., are full of toxic chemicals—is often lost on us. Now “clean”…
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Queen of the Con: The OC Savior
The first season of the podcast Queen of the Con follows Mair Smyth, an Irish heiress battling her family…
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The Hana Shirt Co.
Blame it on The White Lotus. Mike White’s hit series on HBO Max has us thinking differently about a lot of things, including our summer…
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The Ordinary
While an $8 serum is something we can really get behind, it took us some time to familiarize ourselves with the Ordinary. This range…
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Fountain Pen Hospital
In 1946, around the corner from Manhattan’s City Hall Park, Al Wiederlight and his son Phil opened a shop to revive dying pens…
Heal
Dr. Baoku Liu
Though the Google Maps listing for Baoku Liu reads “Baoku Liu, MD,” the letters that hang behind the front desk of his office…
Clean
Branch Basics
The irony that we clean our homes with products that are not themselves clean—i.e., are full of toxic chemicals—is often lost on us. Now “clean”…
Listen
Queen of the Con: The OC Savior
The first season of the podcast Queen of the Con follows Mair Smyth, an Irish heiress battling her family…
Wear
The Hana Shirt Co.
Blame it on The White Lotus. Mike White’s hit series on HBO Max has us thinking differently about a lot of things, including our summer…
Apply
The Ordinary
While an $8 serum is something we can really get behind, it took us some time to familiarize ourselves with the Ordinary. This range…
Write
Fountain Pen Hospital
In 1946, around the corner from Manhattan’s City Hall Park, Al Wiederlight and his son Phil opened a shop to revive dying pens…
Portrait Mode Iké Udé’s carefully staged portraits set contemporary subjects in a world inspired by the drama of Dutch old masters
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A Poet’s Painter
The artist Francesco Clemente has long aligned himself with lyricism. He collaborated with Allen Ginsberg and Rene Ricard in the 1980s, and has taken inspiration from Federico García Lorca. “Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings,” he once said. “Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn’t help anymore.” READ ON
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