NYTIMES (Melissa Kirsch) - Scenic Route
The season’s new releases give us a cultural road map, but the most rewarding reading, listening and watching comes from the detours.
NYTIMES (Melissa Kirsch) - Fast Forward
How do we balance our desire for modern conveniences with our nostalgia for the uncomplicated felicity of our pre-internet past?
NYTIMES (Melissa Kirsch) - Sun Screen
What makes a movie a summer movie? Is it the time of its release, or the way that it depicts the season itself? Or something else entirely?
NYTIMES (Melissa Kirsch) - Scenic Route
A summer weekend offers a bounty of daylight that we feel duty-bound to exploit properly. But sometimes the sun-and-fun mandate becomes an unnecessary burden.
NYTIMES (Melissa Kirsch) - Gravitational Pull
We think and dream and fuss and project entire worlds into existence. Meanwhile, the earth’s orbit continues and the sun goes on shining.
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| Source | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/briefing/gravitational-pull.html |
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NYTIMES (Melissa Kirsch) - Natural Selection
Sometimes, our preference for certitude, our need to define things with conviction, closes us off from possibility.
NYTIMES (Melissa Kirsch) - Unfinished Business
We like it when projects are completed, but what if we could abide comfortably in the toiling and striving it takes to get them there?
NYTIMES (Melissa Kirsch) - Season Pass
Today, let’s set our ambitions for summer reading.
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| Source | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/briefing/season-pass.html |
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NYTIMES (Melissa Kirsch) - Track Changes
It’s a holiday weekend, three days to ease from one seasonal mind-set into the next, even if it feels too soon.
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| Source | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/briefing/track-changes.html |
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NYTIMES (Melissa Kirsch) - Finishing School
It’s graduation season, a time of aspiration and anxiety. Today is about the aspiration — the wisdom to be gleaned from great commencement addresses.