Year: 2023
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World
Things I Thought Made Sense Just Don’t Anymore
Credit...Illustrations by Mira Jacob; source photographs via Adobe Stock and Getty Images. Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of…
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Real Estate
Home Prices Grew, but Mobile Home Prices Grew Faster
Census data reveals the extraordinary growth of manufactured home prices since 2017.
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Food
David Mamet Names the Books That Explain the Real Hollywood
What’s the last great book you read? “A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States,” by Frederick Law Olmsted. Also note:…
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Food
The Novel That Sold 1,000 Copies a Week in 1903
Mary Augusta Ward’s “Lady Rose’s Daughter” was the blockbuster best seller of its day.
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World
Russia Retakes Some Land Hard Won by Ukraine During Counteroffensive
Russia’s recent progress around the southern village of Robotyne is a sobering development for Ukraine amid dwindling Western military aid.
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World
The State of Deals
For deal makers, 2024 is a year to look forward to, if only because 2023 wasn’t necessarily one to celebrate.…
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World
ChatGPT Helps, and Worries, Business Consultants, Study Finds
The A.I. tool helped most with creative tasks. With more analytical work, however, the technology led to more mistakes.
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World
Primaries, Polls and Party Shares: It’s Time for the Mailbag.
Readers have questions, including on switching over to another side’s primary, and a quick comment on Swift.
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Food
‘Sing in Me, Chatbot …’
The robots of literature and movies usually present either an existential danger or an erotic frisson. Those who don’t follow…
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Food
Staffers at The Times on the Books They Enjoyed in 2023
A 1960s crime caper, a biography of the man who created the modern F.B.I., Sinead O’Connor’s memoir: Reporters, writers, editors…