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Your picnic is missing biscuits

I have a small complaint about modern picnics. They are often beautiful. They are not always meals. Somewhere along the line, the ideal picnic became a scattering of photogenic snacks: a baguette, a wedge of cheese, a handful of berries,…
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Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is pointless

Throughout all three hours of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” — the acclaimed writer-director’s take on the ancient Greek epic attributed to Homer — I repeatedly returned to one question. This isn’t entirely atypical. In the past, Nolan’s films have pushed…
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An unnecessary amount of bread

One of the most interesting things about chain restaurants is that the bread is often the point. Not the entrées. Not the décor. Not even the dessert. The bread. People don’t just reminisce about their favorite evening at The Cheesecake…
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Trump’s latest spending defense springs a leak

President Donald Trump is defending the cost of a renovation project at the White House reflecting pool by arguing that former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden spent hundreds of millions of dollars on similar work. Available federal records, however,…
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Lower drug prices won’t fix cancer care

After former President Jimmy Carter used the cancer drug Keytruda — which ultimately helped him become the first U.S. president to live to 100 — cancer patients across the United States had one request for their doctors: “I want what…
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Hemingway’s Madrid, one bite at a time

Madrid remembers its writers. Barrio de Las Letras never let them leave. By the 16th century, it was theaters that drew the bohemians. Poets, playwrights, novelists, dreamers. The printers, the bookshops, the guesthouses and taverns, they followed. Lope de Vega…
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