You’re not supposed to be here! How wild animals are adapting to our cities

You’re not supposed to be here! How wild animals are adapting to our cities

On July 9, 2015, a dead raccoon appeared on a Toronto sidewalk and, for reasons no one fully understood, four men from a nearby office decided to hold a funeral. They bought a cellophane-wrapped rose, signed a card, and placed it on the corpse, whom they named Conrad. In “Our Wild Familiars” (Crown, out Tuesday), … Read more

From tapas to mocktails: How restaurants are adapting to the Ozempic craze

From tapas to mocktails: How restaurants are adapting to the Ozempic craze

On a recent evening, the chic new Caviar Kaspia inside the Mark hotel was buzzing with a tony Upper East Side crowd including designer Libbie Mugrabi, who had gathered with five friends for a social dinner. But the group was unusually conservative when it came time to order, selecting scrambled eggs with salmon, a crab … Read more