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T's Nov. 12 Travel Issue

Highlights

  1. T's Travel Issue

    An Epic Pilgrimage Across Three Great Religions

    Before there was tourism, there was pilgrimage. One writer’s 40,000-mile journey through Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq reveals the ritual’s enduring transformational power.

     By Aatish Taseer

    The Great Mosque of Kufa during Ashura. For Shiite women, Ashura is a quieter affair. One night is dedicated to Zaynab, Hussein’s sister and the Prophet Muhammad’s granddaughter.
    CreditWilliam Keo
  4. Food Matters

    How the Humble Sheet Cake Became Top Tier

    In the world of special occasion baked goods, pastry chefs are embracing the birthday party staple for its vast canvas.

     By Martha Cheng and Sharon Radisch

    Sheet cakes by Noelle Blizzard of the Philadelphia-based bakery New June.
    CreditPhotograph by Sharon Radisch. Set design by Victoria Petro-Conroy

  1. A Garden Shed Becomes a Retreat Filled With Treasures

    At the far end of her London yard, a British interior designer has created a richly adorned work space.

     By Aimee Farrell and Emli Bendixen

    In the designer Tamsin Saunders’s garden shed turned studio, a pair of hand-painted chairs that once belonged to the British artist Elisabeth Frink flank the Shed’s casement window. The lamp, from the 1920s, is by Walligraph.
    CreditEmli Bendixen
    other rooms

  2. Black Folk Musicians Are Reclaiming the Genre

    In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be.

     By Adam Bradley and Justin French

    Dom Flemons at the nightclub FitzGerald’s in Berwyn, Ill., outside of Chicago.
    CreditJustin French
    arts and letters

  3. Slowly and Steadily, Snails Have Overtaken the Runway

    In an era of expediency, gastropods are oozing into fashion and design — and reminding us that we, too, can take our time.

     By Ella Riley-Adams

    “Snails at Sunset” (2022) by the American artists Aleia Murawski and Sam Copeland.
    CreditAleia Murawski and Sam Copeland
    notes on the culture

  4. A Wood-Lined Retreat in the Heart of Paris

    On one of the most Parisian streets in the city, two interior designers create a new kind of French fantasy.

     By Kurt Soller and Alexis Armanet

    CreditAlexis Armanet
    by design

  5. The Man Behind 250 Masks

    Inside the sizable collection amassed by the artist Marcel Dzama, whose work plays with disguise.

     By Julia Halperin

    Marcel Dzama at his Brooklyn studio, wearing a papier-mâché mask of a bull that he made in 2013 based on a painting by the Dadaist artist Francis Picabia.
    CreditChase Middleton
    My Obsession

  1. This Season’s Most Striking Sculptural Bags

    Accessories with distinctive silhouettes, from soft-sided globes to hard-edged minaudières.

     By Kyoko Hamada and Victoria Petro-Conroy

    Clockwise from top: Chanel bag, price on request, (800) 550-0005; Celine by Hedi Slimane bag, $7,400, celine.com; and Bottega Veneta bag, price on request, bottegaveneta.com.
    CreditPhotograph by Kyoko Hamada. Set design by Victoria Petro-Conroy
    Objects

  2. Five Things Tom Dixon Wishes He’d Created

    The designer, who’s debuting a line of portable lighting, looks to geodesic domes and bicycles.

     By Kurt Soller

    CreditClockwise, from top left: © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: © Christie’s Images Limited 2023; Nikreative/Alamy; Courtesy of Zanotta SPA; Universal History Archive/Getty Images; Farrar, Straus & Giroux
    Objects of Envy

  3. Winter Accessories That Sparkle and Shine

    Sequins, paillettes and rhinestones light up this season’s shoes and bags.

     By Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi

    Celine by Hedi Slimane, $1,400, celine.com.
    CreditMari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi
    Market Report

  4. Why Can’t We Give Up the Ghosting?

    How a disappearing act became the default ending to so much human interaction.

     By M.H. Miller

    Joe Bird in “Talk to Me” (2022).
    CreditMatthew Thorne
    notes on the culture

  5. How Hermès Turned a Dog Collar Into a Bag

    This cabochon-accented accessory nods to the brand’s animal-focused roots.

     By Lindsay Talbot

    A 1923 presentation of Hermès dog collars.
    Credit© Hermès
    First of Its Kind, Last of Its Kind

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  2. T’s Travel Issue

    The Enduring, Transformational Power of Pilgrimage

    The writer Aatish Taseer embarked on a journey through Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq. What he learned was less a life-altering revelation and more a lesson in curiosity itself.

    By Hanya Yanagihara

     

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