How studying dogs can unlock the secrets of aging. Also in this edition: the hotels to visit in your dreams, a nail-biting story of a free-climb, and more.
How studying dogs can unlock the secrets of aging. Also in this edition: the hotels to visit in your dreams, a nail-biting story of a free-climb, and more.
Times editors have handpicked 10 stories for you to enjoy. Welcome toThe Weekender.
Old Dogs, New Research and the Secrets of Aging
By James Gorman
The ways that dogs grow and age may provide potentially useful similarities with people.
11 Hotels to Visit in Your Dreams
By The New York Times Style Magazine
Travel options may be limited, but here are places that writers, designers and others hope to get to — or get back to — someday.
How Dave Grohl found himself in an epic drum battle with a 10-year-old.
By Jeremy Gordon

A Record-Setting Ascent of El Capitan
By Marie Fazio
Emily Harrington is the first woman to free-climb the Golden Gate route up El Capitan, a 3,000-foot-high monolith in Yosemite National Park, in under 24 hours.
A stranger used my photos to con women online, so I messaged him.
By Michael McAllister

Meet the husband-and-wife team behind the leading vaccine to solve Covid-19.
By David Gelles

Abby Phillip Is Next-Gen CNN
By Katherine Rosman
In an election dominated by fast-talking policy dudes, her deliberate commentary and context stood out.
Inside the Mystery of a Country Moonshine Bunker
By Devorah Lev-Tov
Distilleries are trendy in rural New York. But this one was open 88 years ago, during Prohibition.
The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This
By Erin Griffith
They moved to exotic locales to work through the pandemic in style. But now tax trouble, breakups and Covid guilt are setting in.
Michael J. Fox opens up about his newfound, uniquely upbeat brand of pessimism.
By Elisabeth Egan

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This edition of The Weekender was edited byAnna Schaverien.