Harper Lee's '50s short stories, published tomorrow, are wonderful. There's one about attempting to sweet talk her way out of parking ticket by quoting Victorian literature. Sadly, the NYPD officer is unmoved www.thetimes.com/article/b4ff...

The cameras roll, the back of a lorry opens and out comes a swirl of dry ice and a silver DeLorean. “And this guy jumps out and he goes, ‘MARTY!’ ” says Michael J Fox. “I’m, like, ‘Holy shit!’" He shot that film with no rehearsal. It was wonderful to chat with him www.thetimes.com/article/1d91...

I've spoken to some brilliant comedy writers about the Jimmy Kimmel suspension, and how writers will respond www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

When the rapper Doja Cat eats a tube of lipstick, what does it mean for humanity and/or the advertising industry and celebrity endorsements? Answers to these pressing questions here www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Once there were some Americans who thought Oasis a poor imitation of the Beatles; now their music may be old enough to sound original. (£) www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda... Excellent line from @willpavia.bsky.social

I spent the day outside Bruce Springsteen's old bungalow, hoping to spot the Boss returning, as he apparently does each year, to solemnly contemplate the place where it all began. It was just me and about fifty other people www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Comet? UFO? Astronomers puzzle over fastest object in solar system www.thetimes.com/article/2720...

How to talk, or at least understand, Alpha. (£) www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda... Excellent by @willpavia.bsky.social What I like is that there is a kind of logic behind it all, so it's possible to get the answers in the quiz.

A (possibly far too lengthy) investigation into the moustaches appearing on the faces of young men, and what it might mean, including, I'm afraid, some undercover work www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

And sometimes they even feature Us in the news! Shout out to @thetimes.com and our incredibly brave and super cool news journalist friend, @willpavia.bsky.social! Check it out: www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

The Hollywood mogul, his gay lovers — and his fashion icon wife www.thetimes.com/article/cfd3...

I’ve spoken to some experts about the dangers of Italian brainrot, and only three of them were my children www.thetimes.com/article/3907...

In a further sign of the end times, the auto-transcriber I use keeps rendering Joan Didion as ‘Diddy’

Trump on the all important will James Bond be tariffed question www.thetimes.com/article/e7bb...

I went, very inadequately dressed, to New York's big fashion event of the week, the Debt Gala, which is like the one at the Met except that people enjoy it www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

I talked with Kelsey Grammer about piecing together the awful details of his sister’s murder, and about a glimpse of heaven, from a surfboard: ‘I looked up and saw the sun through the wave and it happened… an awareness suddenly that, oh, I’m in heaven already.’ www.thetimes.com/article/df64...

After a hundred days of Trump’s second term, town hall meetings in rural Iowa are pretty feisty www.thetimes.com/article/3e5a...

What it’s like to surf in the industrial marshland of northern New Jersey, with the only high school shopping mall surf club www.thetimes.com/article/155d...

I went on patrol with the fashion policeman Nicky Campbell (or at least we talked about crimes he has investigated, and he gently roasted my outfit) 🔓 This story is free to read www.thetimes.com/article/dd0f...

I have been in Central Park covering the conflict between runners and cyclists. I went in there at dawn, like the great Anthony Lloyd into a warzone, with barely a thought for my own personal safety www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

The Times paywall is down this weekend: it's a chance to read silly writing about Trump singing and Elon Musk looking slightly like a seal

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I can’t believe this. It’s like the masterpiece films that go up in smoke in a Paul Auster novel and all we have of them is the written account of someone lucky enough to see them www.thetimes.com/article/67b6...

My six-year-old tells me that the eggs we have bought do not have bird flu. He is confident of this because the hen portrayed on the box, in a cartoon diagram, 'looks pretty healthy'

I had an appointment with a doctor recently who is also, secretly, the author of four of the bestselling books of 2024, known to her fans as Freida McFadden. (I say appointment, I mean interview obviously. Still, it felt like the set up for one of her thrillers) www.thetimes.com/article/dbb0...

A fifteen foot bronze statue of Donald Trump will be unveiled in DC today, the ‘Don Colossus’, polished up to shine like the bathroom fixtures in Mar-a-Lago. I went to meet the sculptor, at the Ohio farm where it was cast www.thetimes.com/article/c976...

Evidence here of the striking similarities between me and Gigi Hadid www.thetimes.com/article/e617...

My colleague @harrietalexander.bsky.social on entering Rikers Island jail: 'Through this portal walk New York City’s boldest" says the sign above the door. Beyond it a disheveled man with wild hair and torn clothes was slumped on a bench, fast asleep... www.thetimes.com/world/us-wor...

Attempting to read The Little History of the World to a 6-year-old in 2024: Me: 'In the ruins of Ur they found tombs as old as the Pyramid of Cheops, containing treasures and a great many tablets on which was written...' 6 yr-old: 'Wait! What was a tablet doing in a tomb? Was it an iPad? etc etc'

A review of Johnny Depp's NY art show, one month into its run: paintings, immersive cinema and lots of 'concierges' who will tell you what it all means www.thetimes.com/world/us-wor...

I’ve recorded a rambly chat with Taryn Siegel about covering NYC for the last decade or so, possibly focusing a little too much on the subject of bear hunting in New Jersey podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Hugh Grant, on being a father of 3, via the NY Post. I’m afraid I relate quite strongly to this

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