"The sad literary girl remains an ever-fixed mark of melancholia. But isn’t it just another form of dressing up, an experiment in mood and genre?" trib.al/FOUaQm2

"The icebox cake's cult status was cemented by Nabisco who printed a recipe for it on the box for their chocolate wafer cookies. It’s a source of real nostalgia for several generations." trib.al/Zz2YdlM

"Good therapy helps clear a path to autonomy. Social-justice therapy inculcates victimhood by convincing patients that they have little choice or agency." trib.al/J9sbNg4

"We took off from Presque Isle, a small town in northern Maine, which is known for snow and potatoes. The first ever Atlantic balloon crossing took off from here in 1978, successfully landing in France." trib.al/pgUUEmH

"These are not the suburbs of my youth. Sure, there are all the fixings — the Home Depots and Olive Gardens — but there is also an Indian market opening up in our town. I hear multiple languages when I’m at our local park. It’s refreshing." trib.al/KCVkAaP

"Why the distance? From what Cockburn can tell, it might have something to do with the fact that Mahomes has associated herself with the MAGA world." trib.al/ZZYWWIO

How good is cod liver oil for mental health? trib.al/fgke83s

How America influenced George Orwell trib.al/aOmknzh

"After this new indictment, it’s clear that RT isn’t a media outlet at all; it’s an information warfare arm of Russian intelligence." trib.al/D0iIir8

Eating my way around Helsinki trib.al/CtblWE1

"While responsible therapists help clients cultivate the power of self-observation and encourage them to experiment with new attitudes, perspectives and actions, social-justice therapists foment grievance." trib.al/IWC4USc

"There’s no substance to the study of education. Without it, charlatans peddling false promises feast off our tax dollars while our schools wither. It’s a broken system." trib.al/6jAsksU

"Motivated by self-preservation, Netanyahu has desperately tried to evade responsibility for the many failures that led to Hamas’s brutal attack on October 7." trib.al/dCqbINM

"I’ll never throw a pitch at Dodger Stadium or run point for my favorite basketball team. But I’d accumulated enough of a bankroll at home in the last few months that I could afford to take a few modest mid-stakes shots on poker’s biggest stage." trib.al/Rg6nxGx

"The idea is simple: the biscuits, sandwiched with the cream, and sitting in the fridge, draw the moisture from the cream and soften. The biscuits and the cream give each other stability and structure; a symbiotic relationship, if you like." trib.al/j6xG3cI

The world of future heirlooms trib.al/7ebWcOd

Why is Generation Z so undersexed? trib.al/5RtJMuK

The death of good conversation trib.al/bFp2fzk

"Casino Royale introduced the world’s readers to exotic phenomena that would become as familiar as their families." trib.al/wD5puWC

"The Tenet indictment takes pains to state that the influencers didn’t know they were taking Russian money. Two of them even asked to speak to the fictional Hungarian businessman who was claimed to be the source of the funding." trib.al/4fUT5tO