The Week - USA (2021-11-26)

Social media stars are trying to get you to buy, not just follow or watch, said Mark Bergen and Lucas Shaw in Bloomberg.com. Thi ...

22 NEWS Health & Science Stardust in your teeth Astronomers have detected signs of fluo- rine, an element found in human bon ...

No matter how many pandemic novels are eventually written, Louise Erdrich’s current entry “may be the best one we ever get,” sai ...

Best books...chosen by Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson’s new novel, Termination Shock, focuses on looming climate disaster. But ...

ARTS 25 Review of reviews: Art & Music The Na tio na l^ G alle ry, Lo ndo n When it comes to hyper-realistic portrai- ture, ...

Jane Campion’s first feature film in 12 years “plays like a master class in sustained dread,” said Leah Greenblatt in Entertainm ...

The Beach “Slow TV” reaches U.S. shores with this unusual documentary series, which will stream continu- ously for a week on a n ...

Imagine yourself in a British pub, said John Holl in Wine Enthusiast. The beer you’d be drinking wouldn’t be a hoppy IPA or thic ...

Travel LEISURE 29 Dante Alighieri’s vision of the afterlife wasn’t entirely drawn from imagina- tion and lore, said J.R. Patters ...

Best properties on the market 30 1 X Dixon, N.M. Rio Canto, a 4-acre riverfront ranchette an hour’s drive from Santa Fe, was dev ...

Best properties on the market 31 6 X Central Village, Conn. The Daniel Angell House, built in 1820, has an updated chef’s kitche ...

Nothing is going to stop Beanie Babies from arriving on store shelves this holiday season, said Robert Channick and Lauren Zumba ...

Making money “It’s beginning to look like a good Christmas—for credit-card lenders,” said Polo Rocha in AmericanBanker .com. Aft ...

(^34) Best columns: Business Big business has few friends left in the political arena, said Michael Strain. There’s no question ...

As football began to rival baseball as America’s No. 1 sport in the 1950s and ’60s, Sam Huff emerged as the NFL’s menacing poste ...

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steady. The baby was me, the woman my mother, and the dog may well have been Lady Girl, Doc’s favorite dog. He had carried the p ...

(^38) The Puzzle Page Find the solutions to all The Week’s puzzles online: http://www.theweek.com/puzzle. Crossword No. 625: Gre ...

Learn 99 essential retirement tips—including ways to minimize taxes, maximize Social Security benefits and help your nest egg ou ...

A. B. S he’s been around for thousands of years, but she’s never gone out of fashion. We’re talking turquoise, one of the world’ ...