Oprah - July 2016 by Lawrence Ambrocio

The Best Books of Summer Love, lust, betrayal—and the awesome return of Terry McMillan

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STEP AWAY FROM THE STOVE!

24 FABULOUS NO-COOK DISHES PLUS

THE GREATEST RIBS GAYLEÕS EVER TASTED The O List, pg. 47

A QUICK LESSON IN SELF-WORTH

...for anyone who’s ever sold herself short

How Not to Get Sick on Vacation

FIND YOUR HAPPY!

From reading to eating, rediscover what feeds your soul

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Contents

Features 80 IT’S BIG BOOK SEASON

Whether your idea of a page-turner is steamy or literary, provocative or just plain fun, you’ll find a stack of great summer reads in our annual roundup.

94 WHERE ARE YOU GOING? Take a walk in the clouds with daredevil Berlanti Azhak.

96 YOUR SUPER NO-COOK SUMMER!

Give yourself a vacation from your stove with these refreshingly simple recipes. Plus, ideas to make your next picnic a breeze.

106 GET GLAM IN A FLASH With our high-impact, lowmaintenance beauty tricks, you’ll look insta-gorgeous.

Live Your Best Life

May We Help You?

Love That!

17 INSPIRATION, MOTIVATION, CELEBRATION

30 ELIZABETH GILBERT

49 FAB FIND!

34 DEAR LISA A too-

50 GREAT BUYS UNDER $100 Patterns galore, from

Actress Danielle Brooks on fearlessness and midnight truffles...a woman who’s changing the world one tire at a time...Ghostbusters star Kate McKinnon on her favorite feline...who’s who in OWN’s new family saga of secrets and sins... and more.

25 THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GAYLE

Editor at large Gayle King kicks off her summer concert tour and gets pumped for the Olympics.

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What Mike Tyson can teach us about the things that really matter. punctual partner and a very hairy situation: Lisa Kogan untangles it all.

Colorful, casual watches, just in time for summer.

sporty stripes to feminine florals.

36 MARTHA BECK How

56 ADAM’S STYLE SHEET How to reimagine

38 FARNOOSH TORABI

59 ADAM’S HOME STYLE SHEET Three cheers for

to quiet the envy that can keep you from loving your life.

Tech-savvy ways to save time and money.

42 IYANLA VANZANT In

part 3 of our series, Iyanla helps a harried mom figure out her future.

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your Saturday staples for the workweek.

pom-pom embellishments.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: PAUL SIRISALEE. JOEL ROBISON. COURTESY OF OOMPH. ILLUSTRATION: YASMINE GATEAU. GREGOR HALENDA. JONATHON KAMBOURIS. DEVON JARVIS.

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O, Beautiful! 61 IT’S THE BALM A rich treat for lips that’ll leave you smiling.

62 HOW DO I DO THAT? EASY UPDO Four steps to

a perfectly imperfect bun.

63 VAL’S GUIDE TO GORGEOUS Beauty

director Valerie Monroe on a magic wand for flawless skin, two pedi-ready nail polishes, and more.

64 DREAM VACATION

You don’t have to hop on a jet to get that well-rested, beachy-bronze glow.

Feeling Good

Let’s Eat!

67 HOW TO NOT GET SICK ON VACATION Skip

111 THE POWER OF 3

70 EAT HEALTHY(ISH) WHEREVER YOU ARE THIS SUMMER Better

114 MIXING BOWL

the upset stomach, sniffles, and other travel snafus.

choices from the buffet to the ballpark.

75 NO FLY ZONE

Strategies to keep you bugbite-free.

76 4 APPS FOR A HEALTHIER SUMMER Let

your gadgets be your guide to sunscreen and more.

78 LET’S TALK THYROID Dr. Oz explains this small gland’s big impact on your health.

Our guide to turning three key ingredients into delectable dishes. A cornucopia of finds, favorites, and quick fixes, from Emeril Lagasse’s favorite chill-out treat to a gadget that’ll make your pies sing.

116 DRESSED TO IMPRESS O columnist

Curtis Stone spills the recipe for his secret sauce.

In Every Issue 6 CONTRIBUTORS 8 THE QUESTION 1 0 LET’S TALK! 1 5 OPRAH: HERE WE GO! 45 THE O LIST: Summer Food Edition 119 SHOP GUIDE 120 OPRAH: WHAT I KNOW FOR SURE ON THE COVER: Oprah photographed by Ruven Afanador. FASHION EDITOR: Jenny Capitain. HAIR: Andre Walker. MAKEUP: Derrick Rutledge. MANICURE: Roseann Singleton for Chanel at Art Department. SET DESIGN: Todd Wiggins for Mary Howard Studio. On Oprah: Top, JudyP Apparel. Earrings, Vaubel Designs. Ring and cuff, Yossi Harari. For details see Shop Guide.

WHERE DO YOU LOVE TO CURL UP WITH A GREAT SUMMER READ?

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On the porch swing at my friend’s country house, with my dog, who is too big to be a lap dog, pretending he fits just fine.

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Lucy Kaylin

EDITOR AT LARGE

Gayle King

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

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Deborah Way DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL EDITIONS AND LIFESTYLE

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In our ancient, puffy recliner—you press a button and up pops a footrest. It’s hideous, but feels like reading in a marshmallow.

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Leigh Haber

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In Prospect Park in Brooklyn—but only for a blissful 15 minutes or so. After that, the grass starts making me itchy, the nearby Ultimate Frisbee match starts making me nervous, and I head home to my airconditioned apartment.

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My parents’ RV. Every summer growing up was spent camping, and each night I would leave the fire early to curl up with the cats and read until everyone came in.

Megan F. Chiriani

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The sculpture garden at the Noguchi Museum. It’s one of the most quiet and zenful places in New York City.

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There’s a park in my hometown in Connecticut that has a giant, magicallooking tree, and I spent a lot of summer days reading on a blanket underneath it. I swear gnomes live in that tree.

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Martha Beck, Nate Berkus, Donna Brazile, Brené Brown, PhD, Meredith Bryan, Michelle Burford, Kym Canter, Jenny Capitain, Susan Casey, Elizabeth Gilbert, Bob Greene, Sanjay Gupta, MD, Andrew Holden, Phillip C. McGraw, PhD, Mehmet Oz, MD, Maria Shriver, Farnoosh Torabi, Iyanla Vanzant, Peter Walsh

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I usually fall asleep with my Kindle planted on my face.

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On the love seat in my study under my cozy chenille blanket with an iced coffee.

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Contributors Elizabeth Gilbert, Author

Summer Is Served

“IF SHE HOLLERS,” PAGE 30

The taste of summer is... corn on the cob. My favorite picnic spot is... the beach at dusk. When I head to the beach, I fill my cooler with...kombucha and beer—so I’ll have a choice of virtue or vice depending on the impulse of the moment.

Five of the creative minds behind this month’s issue chill out and chow down.

Jennifer Chen, Writer “AUTO CORRECT,” PAGE 21

Kaitlyn Du Ross Walker,

Tyler Kord, Chef

“SANDWICH GENERATION,” PAGE 100

Prop stylist

The taste of summer is...soup! Every summer I am surrounded by friends who want to eat cold things when it’s hot outside—so when I have a meal alone, it’s noodley and full of broth. The secret to a great barbecue is...vegetables. The grill is hot anyway, so why not throw on some asparagus and cauliflower?

“YOUR SUPER NO-COOK SUMMER!,” PAGE 96

The secret to a great barbecue is...properly salted food. Maldon salt all the way! My favorite picnic spot is...a coveted secret. After a day in the sun, I like to...take a nap.

Leigh Haber, Books editor “IT’S BIG BOOK SEASON,” PAGE 80

My favorite picnic spot is...a little creek in Pipersville, Pennsylvania. The water is low, and the trees are shady. My two sons loved going there when they were kids. After a day in the sun, I like to...hang out with a glass of wine while watching a Yankees game with other rabid fans. J U LY 2 0 1 6

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When I head to the beach, I fill my cooler with...chips and guacamole, pineapple slices, Trader Joe’s peanut butter–filled pretzels, and cupcakes. Always cupcakes. The secret to a great barbecue is...grilled pizzas. My friend hosts make-yourown-pizza parties, and you can learn a lot about people by how they top their pie.

The Question

ELIZABETH WHALEN, MD Litchfield, Connecticut

Following the loss of my 33-year-old daughter to suicide, I found comfort in Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief by Martha Whitmore Hickman. I give a copy to everyone I know who has experienced a loss. After six years, I still find solace in these pages and recommend this book to members of the grief support group I help lead. SHARON KOHOUT Lubbock, Texas

Q THIS MONTH WE WONDERED...

What book do you always recommend to your friends?

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Life by Keith Richards. I read it to understand why wholesome Patti Hansen would marry a “dangerous” man. I got what I was looking for, and learned not to judge a book—or a person—by its cover.

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf is an intimate look at how two aging people address loneliness after a spouse’s death. As a 77-yearold woman, I have many friends who have gone through that, and the most difficult issue is needing someone to spend quiet time with. This book is a lovely depiction of how they try to deal with their situation.

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A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle. It’s a quick read that makes you want to get on the next flight to France and enjoy all the wonderful experiences the region has to offer!

Freeman by Leonard Pitts Jr. It’s about a newly freed runaway slave who walks from Philadelphia to Mississippi to find his wife, whom he hasn’t seen in 15 years. It’s a historical novel and a love story rolled into one, and everyone has enjoyed it!

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Hardball for Women by Pat Heim, PhD, and Tammy Hughes (with Susan Golant). I found this truly helpful when negotiating with older men in positions of power. I recommend it to friends learning to advocate for themselves.

Daring Greatly by Brené Brown, PhD—nearly every page in my copy is highlighted. It completely shifted the way I see my life. I want my friends to see how understanding the depths of vulnerability can change everything. DEBRA SANDERSON, Lubbock, Texas

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Do the Bright Thing Guiding lights, trusty advice, and new reasons to smile.

I realized there could be some rays of sunshine in all the darkness I’d been enduring. There are so many lights in my life, and sometimes they’re right under my nose.

MARIA GIANFRANCESCO Dundas, Ontario

ODE TO JOY

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I recently lost my mom and my husband within five months of each other. I never thought I could feel so much grief. Though I’m generally a very happy person, suddenly I was faced with deep, dark pain. But after reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s column,

Kathleen Volk Miller’s essay, “Let’s Not Stay Inside,” had me in tears. I’ve lost loved ones, too, and I used to ask myself, Do I have the right to be happy? Reading this story freed me.

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I love O’s new look! And the May issue really resonated with me. I’m a caregiver for my husband, so when I had some downtime, I read my copy. By the time I finished, I had torn out several pages to mail to my sisters and friends. I also had a long list of products to investigate, sites to visit, and books to order. Thank you, Oprah, for opening your heart and life to those of us who sometimes feel isolated by our circumstances.

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I was excited to see Elizabeth Gilbert’s new column, and it was as inspiring as I knew it would be. I live in New York City, so I identified with that grumpy busload of passengers. The driver’s kooky kindness disrupted the bad energy and let positivity in. I’ll try to remember Liz’s story the next time I get frustrated by the close quarters of city living. I also hope to see that bus driver on my route! He’s a small but important example of being the change you want to see in the world.

I love to read stories about finding joy after tragedy, like “Let’s Not Stay Inside.” After my father died when I was 9, I was lost. We had no warning: He was happy and healthy, and we were on vacation, and then he had a heart attack. For the rest of my childhood, I was numb with grief, anger, and confusion. I didn’t even want to come up for air. When I read about families like Kathleen Volk Miller’s, who could see the beauty in the time they had together, I find new hope. I want to go back to the little girl I was and give her some light and some love. Thank you.

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Let’s Talk! Thank you to Val Monroe for sharing her experience with skin cancer. I had been putting off getting a checkup, but after reading her story, I’m making an appointment tomorrow!

LUCINE WATT Via email

Thanks to Valerie Monroe for sharing her photos and the tale of her skin cancer. Like Val, I didn’t think much of the little pimple that never went away—until I had Mohs surgery and met my more fragile self. I’m sure this story has saved people.

LIISA O’MALEY

Greenbrae, California When I came home from having Mohs surgery to remove squamous cell carcinoma from my nose, I started reading my copy of O, and there was Val Monroe’s article about skin cancer. What a coincidence! I can really relate to Val’s story: I’m also (soon to be) 65 years old and can remember many summers slathering on any kind of cream, lotion, or oil that would attract the sun. The name of the game back then was “Let’s see who can get the darkest tan!” Who ever heard of sunscreen? Well, now I’ve become a sunscreen advocate, always preaching to others about wearing it every day, rain or shine, indoors and out. Thanks for your tips. Here’s to our health!

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It was wonderful to enjoy all the “love” stories social media has brought to life. I’m grateful for my own: Thirty-five years ago, David and I attended the same high school, though we never exchanged more than an awkward hi in the hallway. Recently, we became Facebook friends, and now we’re collaborating as writers and business partners. Without social media, we wouldn’t be here!

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GLORIOUS RIPE TOMATOES in enough shades to make a rainbow jealous. Juicy peaches and corn so sweet you could cry. These are a few of the delights I’m enjoying this summer. It’s the season of bounty: so much delicious healthy food, perpetual sunshine, and, most important, long stretches of time to do exactly as you please. But while you’re doing exactly as you please, allow me to offer a few suggestions for what you shouldn’t do: Don’t sink a single unnecessary second into your beauty routine because we have easy tricks to help you look stunning in a matter of seconds (page 106). Under no circumstances should you turn on your stove—not when we’ve gathered such marvelous no-cook recipes for you to whip up (page 96). And whatever you do, please don’t miss the dozens of epic, and epically good, books hitting shelves this season— you’ll find them in our annual summer reading guide (page 80). Labor Day will be here before you know it, so it’s time to get down to business—by which I mean the business of eating, relaxing, reading, and doing the things you love. Enjoy!

HAVE YOU EVER BREWED ICED TEA AT HOME? ITÕS LIKE THAT. The best things in life are real. Which is why we only make iced tea one way. The way you do. With real leaf-brewed tea, from premium tea leaves. Deliciously chilled. We love iced tea the way you love iced tea. Pure and simple.

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“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.” —RUTH REICHL

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AW W W TO AW E S O M ME FRO !

The Gratitude Meter

Five things we can’t stop smiling about this month.

A Whole New World Owen Suskind was diagnosed with autism at age 3. For the next several years, he barely communicated—until his parents learned they could speak to Owen using dialogue from Disney movies. The family’s journey is captured in the new film Life, Animated, which shows how the magic kingdom helped Owen, now 25, discover his own voice. (lifeanimateddoc.com)

Talk to the Hand What to do when you’re in a country where you don’t speak the language and your phone is dead and you just lost your passport? With any luck, you’re wearing the Iconspeak shirt, which has 40 symbols you can use to convey your predicament (in this case, the passport pictogram would be a great start). Read the signs at iconspeak.world. For the Grill of It July is National Hot Dog Month (an estimated 150 million franks will be eaten on the Fourth of July alone). Despite the ongoing ketchup-versusmustard debate, nothing beats grilling over an open fire. The new hot dog and sausage holder from Mr. Bar-B-Q lets you do that times four, with coiled chambers that keep your dinner from flaming out. (lowes.com)

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Lucky Dogs For the past seven years, Fences for Fido volunteers have spent their weekends traveling around Oregon and Washington, fencing in yards for people whose dogs would otherwise spend their days chained up outdoors. To date, the organization has helped more than 1,350 deserving pups leave their tethered times behind—free of charge. Learn how you can support its work at fencesforfido.org.

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constantly stressed out, he pooped everywhere, he developed eating problems—it was a mess.

IF I HAD ONE SUPERPOWER, IT’D BE... the ability to stop time. Everyone would freeze except me. Mostly, I’d use my power to take naps or go on walks. And it would happen only with a particular flick of a finger— I wouldn’t want to stop time whenever I sneezed or something. Can you tell I’ve been thinking about this since I was 10?

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MOST PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THAT... I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes. Willy was J U LY 2 0 1 6

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climbs onto every surface and onto my head, he scratches anything he wants to, he drinks out of every cup, and I can’t—or I won’t—stop him. Well, I want to stop him, but he’s too cute! I’m not strong enough.

MY FAVORITE MEAL OF THE DAY IS... breakfast. I have to have coffee and two poached eggs with a vegetable quinoa mélange underneath. The dish takes way too much time, but I wake up early to make it because it’s my ritual. —AS TOLD TO Z.D. *For more on the new Ghostbusters, turn to page 25.

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The Peel Deal On her blog, Culinary Canvas, Canadian artist Lauren Purnell proves that playing with your food (scraps and all) can be an art form by turning fruits, veggies, and commonly trashed skins and rinds into colorful tableaus: a bicycle with blood orange slices as tires, a watermelon sailboat riding a blueberry wave. Well plated. (culinarycanvas .tumblr.com)

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Sibling rivalries, mountains of money, a mysterious death, and several very original sins: Welcome to the world of Greenleaf, an original drama from OWN centered on the fictional Greenleaf family and featuring Oprah in a sassy role. The Greenleafs run the Calvary Fellowship World Ministries megachurch in Memphis, and sordid secrets simmer beneath the dynasty’s holier-thanthou surface— threatening to boil over. In anticipation of the two-night series premiere on June 21 and 22*, here’s a cheat sheet to the twisted family tree. —JOSEPH ZAMBRANO

LADY MAE GREENLEAF

BISHOP JAMES GREENLEAF

(Lynn Whitfield) The glaring matriarch with a fondness for the finer things. Lady Mae is devoted to her shady brother, Mac, and intolerant of anyone who tries to “sow discord in the fields of [her] peace.”

(Keith David) Leader of Calvary Fellowship World Ministries. His outsize personality attracts passionate followers—and the scrutiny of the federal government.

CHARITY GREENLEAFSATTERLEE

JACOB GREENLEAF KERISSA GREENLEAF

(Kim Hawthorne) Fiercely faithful to her husband, Jacob; Lady Mae’s wannabe protégé. To keep up appearances, she is willing to tolerate her hubby’s meddlesome mistress as long as he complies with her bossy ways.

(Lamman Rucker) The only Greenleaf son and the new head of the ministry’s deacon board. He can’t resist being led into temptation, often sneaking off (even before church) for a frisky rendezvous with his “sidepiece,” a.k.a. his dad’s secretary.

GRACE GREENLEAF

(Merle Dandridge) The prodigal daughter and her father’s clear favorite. A preacher turned journalist who has forsaken her faith, Grace is determined to expose the truth about Uncle Mac.

(Deborah Joy Winans) The youngest Greenleaf daughter, known for her powerful pipes. Wants to be seen as a grown-up, because everyone keeps putting baby in a corner.

KEVIN SATTERLEE

(Tye White) Charity’s supportive husband; struggling to keep his secrets a secret. He may not have his wife’s musical chops, but his good looks score him plenty of male fans.

MAVIS M c CREADY (Oprah Winfrey) Brassy club owner and, according to her sister, Lady Mae, purveyor of “the devil’s music”; Grace’s only true confidante. Next on her to-do list: renovate the bar and tear down her scoundrel of a brother.

SOPHIA GREENLEAF

ZORA GREENLEAF

(Desiree Ross) Grace’s teen daughter, who is forced to enroll in a new school with depressing plaid uniforms when her mom moves them back to Memphis. Is the goodytwo-shoes falling under the spell of her wayward cousin Zora?

(Lovie Simone) Jacob and Kerissa’s teenage daughter. Her fear of performing poorly in school—where her mom is the principal— fuels a hush-hush Ritalin habit.

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(GregAlan Williams) Lady Mae and Mavis’s brother and the bishop’s righthand man in the church’s nefarious doings. His tactics include bribes, threats, and calling Mavis a “cheap-ass Jesus to these $3 ticket scratchers.”

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Patrice Banks is revved up about educating female drivers.

CABIN AIR FILTERS, clutch hoses, exhaust manifolds—do you feel lost? Patrice Banks did, too. Just a few years ago, the onetime “auto airhead” dreaded bringing her car in for an oil change. “I always felt taken advantage of,” says the 35-year-old former engineer. In 2011, after searching in vain for female mechanics in the Philadelphia area, she threw up her hands and decided to go to automotive school herself. By day, Banks worked as a failure analyst at DuPont, determining how equipment at chemical processing plants, like centrifuges, broke down. By night, she poked under car hoods at a community college, learning how to do everything from checking oil to replacing a brake rotor. “I couldn’t believe so many women don’t know how to do some of this stuff,” she says. “I was in school with 18-year-old boys, not rocket scientists!” But she loved it. A month after graduating, Banks gave up her six-figure salary and took a job at an auto repair shop making $600 per week. The pay cut paid off. This summer Banks moves into her own space to begin construction on Girls Auto Clinic, a full-service shop that she hopes will be a clubhouse for female drivers. She’ll run workshops for sororities, Girl Scout troops, and other groups of girls and women— whom she calls “sheCANics”—teaching them the nuts and bolts of vehicle upkeep. “I once got a text from a woman I’d taught whose car battery had died,” she says. “When a guy pulled over to help, he didn’t know how to jump the car—but she did.” — JENNIFER CHEN

Banks at Delaware Technical Community College in 2013.

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For pyrotechnician Catherine Lantis, every workday is a blast. ON HER ROARING START

ON BLOWING A FUSE

I was born into the fireworks business. My grandparents started their company in 1945, and later my dad and uncle took over. Fireworks have always been a big part of my life. As a kid, I used to pick up pieces of paper debris off the ground after my dad’s shows. Today I typically design between 12 and 20 displays each year as Lantis Fireworks and Lasers’ head pyrotechnician.

You can create complex displays with electrical firing—meaning you program a computer to ignite the fireworks—but it doesn’t compare to the thrill of hand-firing. When you hand-fire, you have to wear a lot of protective gear—flameretardant clothing, a helmet, goggles, gloves—because you’re lighting each individual fuse with a flare; you’re inches from the firework as it goes off! I’ve designed more than 120 shows, and I’m still startled every time I ignite that first shell.

ON PLAYING WITH FIRE Meeting clients’ expectations can be challenging. They usually say something like, “I want the one that’s like a ball of fire.” But our inventory has more than 2,000 varieties of fireworks, so I ask: Should the show be loud? Do you want it to look like an explosion of color? If it’s a show for a nursing home, we might have vibrant fireworks that are also fairly quiet. If we’re designing a huge Fourth of July production, we’ll put in shells like the salute for a thundering blast. OPRAH.COM

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ON HER BIGGEST FAN When my daughter was 2½, I let her attend one of my shows for the first time. I was worried she might freak out, but when I found her afterward, her eyes were wide with amazement. She shouted, “The booms, Mommy, the booms!” Now, for me, fireworks aren’t really fireworks anymore— they’re booms! —AS TOLD TO MELISSA GOLDBERG

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The star of stage (Sofia in The Color Purple on Broadway) and screen (the spirited Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black) celebrates small victories and the Spice Girls.

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BEST KARAOKE SONG

“Wannabe” by the Spice Girls. If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends. It’s really the all-time best song.

BEST CHILDHOOD MEMORY When I won $10 at a church raffle. I was about 12 years old, and there was a raffle held after our Wednesday night Bible study. When I heard my name called, I stood up with both hands in the air and screamed “Yes!” It was the first time I’d ever won anything—you would’ve thought I’d scored tickets to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. BEST SUMMER TRADITION Hanging out in New York City’s Central Park with friends. We head to Sheep Meadow with blankets and picnic food, play music, and throw a Frisbee around. And while you’re technically not allowed to bring wine into the park, we sneak it in anyway. You’ve got to have a nice bottle of red. BEST LATE-NIGHT SNACK Godiva dark chocolate truffles. I’m obsessed with them—and one is only three points on Weight Watchers! I’m not sure how. All I know is Jennifer Hudson did the math for me. BEST WAY TO UNWIND A bubble bath. I throw in a bath bomb that turns the water purple. I also toss in a little bit of a butter rum body scrub, which is made with sugar and real rum—smells like heaven! Then I lay out a whole bunch of candles, play some jazz, and chill. BEST WORDS OF WISDOM I’ve heard a lot, but one piece of advice that’s on my heart right now is from Nina Simone: “I’ll tell you what freedom is to me—no fear.” That’s the place I’m trying to get to in my life—as an artist, performer, and person. —AS TOLD TO Z.D. PHOTOGRAPH BY Caitlin Mitchell J U LY 2 0 1 6

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My RV Life Tia Sims, wife of former Miami Dolphins lineman Keith Sims, and her family are not your typical RVers. Learn why the self-titled Soulful RV Family loves the RV life. Visit Go RVing’s blog, The Scenic Route, at Blog.GoRVing.com for more RV travel inspiration and tips from Tia.

My Best RV Moment Every moment in the RV surrounded by family is my favorite. It never feels like I am traveling; I feel at home. I get to share such quality time with my kids and my husband, and make memories we will remember forever.

My Best Spot Mt. Rushmore was a family favorite. It almost doesn’t seem real when you are looking at it. There’s so much country out there to see and experience. We feel like we’ve only been to the tip of the iceberg.

My Best Memory with the Kids We involve the kids in every piece of the experience—whether it’s picking where we’re going, getting there, or exploring once we have arrived. I want my kids to have a natural curiosity, and the freedom to learn and to form their own viewpoints. Every time they are super-engaged with a speciﬁc place and ask loads of questions, it makes me so happy.

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Short shorts, ratty posters, iffy eggnog: Suzanne Rico never saw her mother pass up a deal—and now she knows why.

My mother had decided she would never again have nothing. The stuff had been a stockpile against loss.

The author’s mother, 1980.

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The author (left) with her mother in Los Angeles, 2012.

my mother better than Linda had loved hers. I searched the crowd for my mom and found her near the whitebrick house, behind which lay the lawn where Nixon’s helicopter had once landed for a golf date. Mom looked like a stick figure in the yoga pants we’d bought in Target’s children’s section. She held a poster of the horses of San Marcos. “Cropped and framed,” she said, beaming. Soon after, a plunging blood count landed her in the hospital. A month later, I bought a dress at an outlet mall for her funeral: Calvin Klein, $19.99. Afterward, my sisters and I sat on our mother’s bed, sorting her possessions. A colorful pile of short shorts— Mom’s Daisy Dukes, we joked—sat on a shelf, tags attached. compare at $29.99. clearance price , $2.99. “What the hell was she doing with all this junk?” I asked. Eager to banish any reminder of the battle we’d just lost, I donated nearly everything. Days later, this scattering of my mother’s stuff began to sting. I understood now: The thrill of finding a diamond in T.J. Maxx’s rough had helped remedy the desolation of her childhood. My mother had decided she would never again have nothing. The stuff had been a stockpile against loss. One spring morning, I dug out my mother’s denim short shorts and tried them on. They fit perfectly. Wearing them conjures the mom who climbed a ladder to trim her orange trees. She’s up there in the California sun, her legs summer brown. The Hopes’ colander is with me, too. When I use it to rinse bitter arugula and sweet strawberries, I no longer judge Linda for letting it go. SUZANNE RICO is a Los Angeles–based journalist. She is currently working on a memoir.

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ARLY BIRDS WERE ALREADY crowding the driveway of the Los Angeles estate when I approached with my mother, her gait tilted by the feeding tube in her side. Spread on tables were objects left behind by the house’s late owners, Bob Hope and his wife, Dolores: boater hats, a dart board, kitchen utensils. Here was Bob on a magazine cover, golf club in hand, a monkey as his caddy. Here was a plastic statue of Bob in fatigues, one finger missing from his salute. He’d been dead for nine years, Dolores for one. But Hollywood legends didn’t interest my mother. What mattered were bargains. She was born in Germany, two years before World War II began. Her mother was killed when a bomb struck their Bavarian farmhouse; her father was forced to send his children to an orphanage while he looked for work. “I didn’t even have a toothbrush!” Mom would say when, as a kid, I balked at brushing. She was 11 when she crossed the Atlantic and first saw America—a dream for the taking if, she came to believe, one could stretch a dollar. During my childhood, waste—of shampoo, paper towels, a squashed tuna sandwich in my sack lunch— was a crime. My sisters and I understood the concept of frugality but were baffled by our mother’s definition of a “deal.” She’d buy cartons of eggnog after Christmas— 10 cents each since they were about to spoil—and cram them into our freezer; we’d drink them until Easter. Now, at the Hopes’, a snow globe glinted in the November sun, the flakes the same color as my mother’s post-chemo hair. She picked up a 1950s-era colander— only a buck!—and ran her fingers over its metal rim. Linda Hope, Bob and Dolores’s first child, manned the nearest till. I wanted to speak to her. I wanted her to bestow some wisdom about the road of loss she had just traveled with her mother—the road I was now on. “This must be weird,” I said. Linda nodded as strangers rifled through her history. “But,” she said, “life moves on.” She rang up a woman clutching a turkey-shaped candle. Linda’s words pressed hard against my heart. How could she let it all go so easily? When my mother was gone, I told myself, I’d make a shrine of her things. I’d love

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WHILE TEAM USA

is picking up medals in Brazil, I’ll be watching from the safety of my family room, no doubt wearing the new GapFit summer collection. The Olympicsinspired line debuts in select stores and online on June 27. The sports bras, tanks, hoodies, shorts, capris, and pants come in vibrant colors that look good on every body type and skin tone, so there’s something for everyone. ($23 to $65 each; gap.com)

I LEAVE THE

crooning to the pros, but when Adele kicks off her tour on July 5, I can’t promise not to sing along—especially when she belts out my fave, “All I Ask.”

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many things—I thought it was a flask from Morocco—but it’s actually a waterproof wireless speaker that’s very cool and easy to use: Just connect it to your phone’s Bluetooth and select a song. I know my favorite son and daughter are going to play DJ with it on our annual vacation, and that’s fine by me as long as they include some country music. ($100; ultimateears.com)

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may be over, but that doesn’t mean J. Lo is taking time off. Now she’s the superstar in residence at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

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on July 9. So when he stopped by CBS This Morning recently, I asked him: If you could grab a beer with your 20-year-old self, what would you tell him? His response (left) was perfectly on brand for the most likable (and funny, smart, and charming) guy in Hollywood. I have a feeling that the Oscar-winning actor—who made me cry in Philadelphia, laugh in A League of Their Own, and go weak in the knees in Sleepless in Seattle—is just getting started.

Floss. Start watching the blood sugar right now, you idiot. Just calm down, would you? You’ll be okay. —TOM HANKS

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the Essence Festival is a weekend of inspiration and great music (hi, Kendrick Lamar!). Come July Fourth weekend, I’ll be heading to New Orleans for both.

AND...ACTION!

Thirty-two years ago, four brave souls saved New York City from ghosts. On July 15, a new team will answer the call. Though I’ve seen the other Ghostbusters movies, the 2016 reboot is the first I’m looking forward to. The simple

reason: the fantastically funny female cast— box office queen Melissa McCarthy, the kooky Kristen Wiig, the quirky Kate McKinnon, and the brilliantly brazen Leslie Jones. Who you gonna call? Those four!

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Worn down? Burned out? It’s probably time to let a few beastly burdens go.

D O YOU GUYS REMEMBER Mike Tyson’s white tigers? Those rare creatures were just a few of the small (and not so small) luxuries on which Tyson blew his tremendous boxing fortune. He also bought six mansions, more than 100 fancy vehicles, and a $2 million bathtub supposedly made of gold... but it’s the tigers I can never forget. There’s a picture of Mike Tyson that will stay with me forever. He’s posing in a jungle landscape, wearing nothing but a loincloth and baby oil, holding one of his two majestic white tigers by a chain. To my eye, he looks at once manic, defensive, and really, really tired. ILLUSTRATIONS BY Julia Breckenreid J U LY 2 0 1 6

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I promise I’m going somewhere with this. Have you ever been really, really tired? For most of my life, I was. All the time. For years, I struggled with the terrible problem of never having enough energy. My reserves were next to zero. I was always the first person to get sick during flu season, to quit on a hike, to leave the party and go home to bed. Once, I fell asleep in a lake. I was just standing there, up to my chest in cold water, and I dozed off from sheer exhaustion. Not easy to do, but I managed it. I worried that I had a metabolism problem, or a thyroid issue, or a brain tumor. Or perhaps I needed a better mattress? Or more flaxseeds? It wasn’t the flaxseeds. In fact, my problem was not that I had low energy at all; you could probably power a small city off my natural reserves of enthusiasm. My problem was that I had been squandering it. I spent years pouring my precious attention down a suckhole of exhausting behaviors, which included (but were certainly not limited to) engaging in unhealthy sexual relationships, clinging to toxic friendships, pretending to be somebody I was not, trying to please people who could never be pleased, trying to save people who could never be saved, trying to persuade people who were never gonna love me to love me, faking happiness during times of misery, and saying yes when what I actually meant was no. That’s all very tiring stuff. Honestly, it's no wonder I was so epically wiped out. But for me to have depleted myself in this fashion and then walk around saying “I have no goddamn energy, man!” is very much like that time Mike Tyson complained to Larry King, “I have no goddamn money, Larry!”

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No, Mike Tyson—you earned plenty of money, but you spent it on white tigers. Likewise, Liz Gilbert, you were given plenty of energy, but you chose to expend it on incredibly foolish things. We all have our own white tigers. And by that I mean we all have some very dangerous pet pathology that is capable of devouring our lives, and utterly depleting our energy, if we are not careful. Your tigers might be addiction, or codependency, or workaholism, or rage, or perfectionism, or blame, or gambling, or an eating disorder— I don’t know. But I do know, from my own experience, that when I am living sanely, my energy flows freely. So if my energy isn’t flowing freely, I know I need to once again ask myself: What are my white tigers right now? What craziness have I chained myself to this time? Once I’ve identified my tigers, I have an important choice to make. I can double down on my current madness and keep pretending that dragging a pair of rare white tigers

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around is a perfectly normal thing to do, or...I can drop the chain and simply let those tigers go. Now, let’s get serious here: The only way to rid yourself of your own cumbersome beasts is to tell the truth about your life. Tell the truth about your addiction, or codependency, or workaholism, or rage, or perfectionism, or blame, or gambling, or eating disorder— whatever it is that's sucking you dry, come clean to yourself about it and the dire effect it's having on your life. Once you do that, your energy will begin to return, in the form of power. Not the fake kind of power that comes from perpetuating some unsustainable myth about yourself (or from, say, purchasing a $2 million bathtub). I mean the power that comes from standing in your truth and embracing the desire to be fully, finally restored—and energy-rich— for the rest of your days. ELIZABETH GILBERT is the author of,

most recently, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Riverhead).

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I have to ask myself: What are my white tigers right now? What craziness have I chained myself to this time?

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Dear Lisa,

My mother has lousy eyesight and long chin hairs. I don’t know how to tell her. Any ideas? —LAUREL, TEXAS

This is yet another situation when a singing telegram just won’t cut it. Here’s the thing: Many are under the impression that women have babies in order to preboard planes. And sure, that’s a big part of it, but we also hope our girls will grow into the kind of people who offer humanitarian aid for any rogue facial hair. Be direct, but not so direct that you open with the words, “Listen up, Rapunzel.” Try instead, “You know, Mom, in certain light, I’m seeing a few stray chin hairs.” Note: The verb cornrow should be avoided at all costs. Present her with a magnifying mirror, tweezers, and, if need be, a stiff drink—then never speak of it again.

Dear Lisa,

My husband is perpetually on time, and I’m always a little late. I keep pointing out that parties never start right on the dot, most doctors make you wait a good 20 minutes, and movies show an eternity of previews before the feature begins. It’s the only major argument we ever have, but we have it a lot. So, who’s right? — J U NE, N O RT H CA ROL I NA

My friend ran into my ex-husband at Costco, and now she wants to know whether I’d be okay with her asking him out. We’ve been amicably divorced for almost three years, and I’m happily involved with somebody else. But the truth is, I do mind. I know I don’t have a leg to stand on, but I really don’t want them getting together. Now what? — G I A, TORO N TO Now, Gia, you take a deep breath.

Dear June—though I’m guessing your real name is April but you’re running a couple of months behind— It isn’t about right or wrong (though, for the record, you’re wrong); this is a peacekeeping mission. They say that for a marriage to be happy, you need separate bathrooms. But I say the key to living resentment-free ever after is this: If your husband can’t seem to cut you some slack and you can’t manage to be punctual, let go of the anger, put an end to the stress, and simply agree to get where you’re going separately. When your host has run out of cocktail shrimp, the dermatologist has no time to fill your crinkly forehead with Botox, and you end up wandering the world completely clueless that the new Bourne movie is opening—well, that’s for you to deal with. Meantime, your husband can mingle, control his blood pressure, and enjoy his Milk Duds secure in the knowledge that both Bryan Cranston and Edward Norton have films coming out this Christmas. LISA KOGAN is O’s writer at large and the author of Someone Will

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Dear Lisa,

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You appreciate the fact that your friend was up-front. You tell her the idea makes you surprisingly uncomfortable, but you’ll work to overcome that discomfort. And then you give your blessing. If you say no, you’ll be denying two decent people a shot at the kind of happiness you’ve been lucky enough to find for yourself. If you say yes and they end up clicking, you’re going to be just fine (though maybe not at first and probably not at Costco). You’ll be fine because you’ll know that you had a choice, and you chose generosity, compassion, and goodness. We weren’t put on this planet to be small, Gia. Our job is to be fantastic! And if that aches a bit—I promise you, it’s nothing more than a growing pain.

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Laurel, dear,

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MONSTER Envy turns life into an endless competition that nobody wins.

“WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME?” my friend Alice asked. “My sister was lonely for a long time, and when she found someone, I was really glad for her. Then she told me her new boyfriend wrote her a book of love poems—and I had this feeling that somehow I’d been wronged. I thought, Nobody writes poetry for me! Then, My life sucks. But I’m happily married! I don’t want to trade places. Why am I being so petty?” Ah, envy. The green-eyed monster that stalks our minds, devouring our best intentions. How lovely it would be if we could destroy envy simply by thinking Stop it! Unfortunately, that never works; attacking negative feelings makes them grow stronger. But if you can understand the assumptions that drive envy and replace them with more useful beliefs, your monstrous emotions will relax, allowing generosity to awaken. The first step is to stop blaming yourself. You were set up for a lifetime of comparison and competition literally from your first breath. When you were born, a doctor or nurse probably assigned you an Apgar score, a number

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We may actually feel threatened when good fortune befalls someone else, even someone we love deeply.

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that indicated how your muscle tone, heart rate, and other variables measured up. Throughout toddlerhood, the assessments continued as your height, weight, and other attributes were constantly compared with those of your peers. In the sandbox, you probably weren’t aware of your progress—but whoa, Nellie, along came school. With every test, report card, and athletic event, you got another ranking. Then, eventually, you most likely joined the working world, competing for jobs and striving to outperform colleagues. By the time we reach adulthood, we’re comparing continuously, almost reflexively: Is she smarter than I am? Richer? Does she have nicer legs, clothes, children? While driving ourselves toward success, we might even guiltily hope others will fall behind, because we’ve learned that for one person to win, many must lose. We may actually feel threatened when good fortune befalls someone else, even someone we love deeply. Some say the dog-eat-dog mind-set is natural law: The beastie who nabs the most hot-ticket items like food and mates will pass on his genes, while his weaker cohorts die off. Competition is how humans became the dominant species, by God! So we think—but not everyone agrees. For example, in rural South Africa, I've met many people who don’t have access to the material resources that I do, to say the least. They could feel envy and resentment, yet they treat me with enormous warmth and generosity. My African friends tell me this stems from their philosophical grounding in ubuntu. The word, which has no direct English translation, essentially means “I am because we are.” Ubuntu reminds us that humans didn’t become a dominant species by competing. We did it by cooperating. In small villages surrounded by threatening wild animals, each person is precious, and sharing brings abundance. If one villager learns a skill—say, a new way of growing food—she benefits more from teaching others than from using her knowledge to compete against them. When her neighbors thrive, they increase the group’s collective resources; there’s more for everyone, and the village is stronger as a whole. This is the lesson Alice needs to teach her green-eyed monster, which is bellowing our culture’s favorite lies— stories of competition and scarcity. Kindly but firmly, she must teach it the stories that highlight ubuntu. You

can do this with your own monster. For every envy story in you, there’s an ubuntu alternative. As you read each ubuntu example below, try to think of concrete facts from your life to support it. I predict that you’ll recall many times when things got better for you because they went well for someone else. ENVY’S STORY: If someone else has good fortune, there won’t be enough left for me. UBUNTU’S STORY: Human well-being is not a zero-sum game. Wanting the best for each other creates a feeling of abundance—and possibility. ENVY’S STORY: I need to be just like [my sister, my boss, Angelina Jolie], only better. UBUNTU’S STORY: We are all unique and incomparable. I thrive by fulfilling my own destiny, not anyone else’s. ENVY’S STORY: If I had what she has, I’d be happy. UBUNTU’S STORY: A positive life situation isn’t the cause of happiness, it’s the result of happiness. Happiness comes from acknowledging that I am enough. If you make a habit of replacing your stories of envy with stories of ubuntu, then you can begin to create new pathways in your brain, paths to a more relaxed and openhearted world view. Alice looked for ubuntu experiences from her own life: Had she benefited from her sister’s happiness? Well, since they no longer talked incessantly about her sister’s loneliness, Alice had felt more seen and understood. The new boyfriend was a warm, funny presence at family gatherings. He also helped Alice reprogram her smartphone. As she dwelt on such thoughts, Alice realized her sister’s happiness was actually increasing her own. As Alice practiced moving from envy to ubuntu, it slowly stopped mattering who had written poems to whom. What did matter—what could change Alice’s entire outlook—was that instead of telling herself My life sucks, she was focusing on a truer story: Our life rocks. Now she, her sister, and the men they love can celebrate their good fortune together while the envy monster snores in the background, blessedly asleep at last. MARTHA BECK’s latest book is Diana, Herself: An Allegory of Awakening (Cynosure Publishing).

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Like ubuntu, these words have no English equivalent, but they capture universal matters of heart and soul.

cwtch

Welsh (rhymes with butch), literally “a cupboard or cubbyhole”: a heartwarming hug from a loved one

chi ku

Chinese, literally “to eat bitterness”: ability to go through hard times, overcome challenges, and persevere

nam jai

Thai, literally “water” and “heart”: willingness to make sacrifices for others and extend hospitality to strangers

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OULD YOU drive an extra 20 minutes to save 8 cents per gallon of gas? Or spend an entire Saturday trying to set up your new flat-screen TV? Not every task is worth your precious time, especially when summer, with its late-setting sun and tank top–ready temps, is beckoning. Time, after all, is a currency, just like cash: There’s only so much, so it deserves to be safeguarded. These labor-saving tricks will let you stay on the beach longer— and may even put a little money back in your wallet. FARNOOSH TORABI, personal

finance expert and author of When She Makes More, hosts CNBC’s Follow the Leader and the podcast So Money.

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Toilet paper, dish soap, diapers: How many times have you squandered valuable leisure time to make a dash for these household items? Stay stocked up with autorenewal services at Soap.com, Amazon, and Diapers.com. As a bonus, you’ll usually save between 5 and 15 percent when you sign up for recurring shipments on these sites.

Budget Tracking A 2014 analysis showed that 65% of states saw lower prices at the pump on weekends.

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Cruising around town to potentially find cheaper gas? Forget it. The apps Gas Guru and GasBuddy can help you locate the least expensive nearby place to fill up.

54% of Americans keep track of their budget either with a pen and paper or in their head

26% use computer programs or phone apps 18% don’t keep a budget

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Reviewing monthly expenses isn’t easy, and most of us would rather spend our spare time with a margarita in hand. Thanks to Level Money, we can. This financial management app creates a free, customized budget for you and shows how much you can safely spend in a day, a week, or a month based on your earnings, bills, and savings.

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Is it worth it to pay someone to clean your house? To find your personal hourly wage, take your annual income, erase the last three digits, and divide that number by 2. So if you earn $50,000 a year, one hour of your precious time is worth $25. If it costs less to outsource a mundane task that would take you an hour or more, hire someone. A single mom I know paid the teen next door $10 an hour to fold her laundry. Don’t have a willing neighbor? On TaskRabbit.com, you can find and schedule prescreened workers.

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THE BACKSTORY: Last August, after Theresa Robbins’s children—Jon-Luc, 15; Nicholas, 12; and Liam, 7—returned from a summer at their father’s house, Jon-Luc announced that he wanted to live with his dad. Theresa hadn’t seen this coming—for four years she’d been taking care of the boys as a single mom. But she couldn’t ignore the fact that her work schedule was hectic; in addition to her full-time job, she was starting her own children’s book–publishing company. Finally, Theresa and her ex compromised: He’d take all three children for a year so she could get her work life under control. For Theresa, the custody concerns have been all-consuming, but in the third installment of our series, Iyanla urges her to set aside parenting questions and take time to focus on her own needs. ILLUSTRATION BY Aude Van Ryn

IYANLA VANZANT: Welcome back! Last

time we spoke, I advised you to see this parenting swap as a real opportunity. Your sons get valuable time with their father; you get to devote more energy to your business. This is truly a win-win. Does it feel like that to you? THERESA ROBBINS: It does feel like that, but after talking with you, I see that I won’t have the best relationship with my boys or be successful in my business unless I open my heart. But how do I do that? IV: Well, first, you have to get clear on what you want. What is it that

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you want to accomplish? What is it that you want to experience? What is it that you want to feel? Do you want a new relationship? What would it look like? Or are you now just going to bury yourself in work? You’re freer than you’ve ever been. You don’t have to cook every night. You don’t have to do much laundry. Your toilet paper lasts longer. This is a blessing!

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Relationship expert and life coach Iyanla Vanzant picks back up with Theresa, 38, and helps her explore how a sudden custody swap might have an unexpected upside.

IV: You’re breathing! What a lovely

TR: I guess I’ve been living a getthrough-the-day kind of existence. IV: How’s that working for you? TR: Not so well. I know where I want to take my business, but I still have no idea if I’m doing right by my boys. I want to feel like I’m making the right choices. IV: I think you need to create your vision and be able to articulate it and see it. Your vision for yourself as a woman first—that’s number one. Then you can create a vision for yourself as a mother and an entrepreneur. TR: [Takes a deep breath]

thing to hear. TR: I was just thinking about my vision for myself. It’s interesting to think about because part of being a single mom is trying to be both the mom and the dad, and that never left much time for me. I try to take care of myself and exercise, but I’m not used to seeing myself as a woman outside my role as a mother or my role in the business. Who am I? IV: Let’s break it down. Tell me what three things you need for yourself right now. TR: I need the confidence that I can— IV: Just confidence. Keep it to one word. No need to say more quite yet. What else? TR: I need love. I need to love myself. I need to feel loved by my boys. IV: Don’t put love from the boys on this list because they love you already. Confidence, love, and...? TR: The third thing that comes to mind is success. I need to feel successful. IV: That means you have to do something. Try again. What do you need? TR: I feel like I need a partner. IV: As in, a lover? TR: I don’t know. Most of us have a partner to go through these big issues with.... IV: You need support. TR: Yes, that’s it. IV: What kind of support? Are you looking for support for your work? Your place in the world? Are we talking about a companion in your home? You know what you really need? Clarity! You need to get clear about a few things. Let’s put that on the list, okay?

TR: Yes. IV: Okay, good. So we’ve settled on

confidence, love, and clarity. I’m going to give you some assignments to complete before we speak again. The first thing I want you to do is title your life in five words or fewer. Think about what you want your life to feel like. Maybe the goal is Moving in a New Direction, or maybe it’s Giving and Receiving. I name my life every year. Right now it’s called In Full Bloom. Does all of this make sense? TR: It does. IV: Then I’m going to ask you to pick a theme song for your life. Is your song “I Will Survive” or “A House Is Not a Home” or “I Am Woman”? Pick a song and learn the words to it. Then I want you to write down your intentions—what do you intend to do, what do you intend to feel, what do you intend to participate in? Finally, write down your vision for your future. I haven’t been able to hear it—you’re too overwhelmed by fear. What do you see for yourself as a woman? What do you see for your business? What do you see for your relationship with your sons? And while you’re working through all this, I want you to take three moments each day for the next 40 days to do something for yourself: a healthy moment, a wealthy moment, a joyful moment. This could mean drinking more water, saving $10, or eating a piece of chocolate. And—if you’re open to it—I want you to join a dating site. You don’t have to go out with anyone; just join and look. I want you to experience—once your heart begins to open—what it’s like to be out there as a woman again. TR: I can tell this is going to be an interesting 40 days. IV: It will be! My beloved, I’ll talk to you soon. IYANLA VANZANT is the host of OWN’s Iyanla: Fix My Life and the author of Trust: Mastering the Four Essential Trusts (SmileyBooks).

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The Chew

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There’s a new candy in town: These gourmet fruit snacks (orange, watermelon, and grapefruit) come in paper baskets, so they look fresh from the farmers’ market but taste even sweeter. (Farmer’s Market Sweets, $58 for set of three baskets; oliveandcocoa.com)

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Honey from New York, Cremont from Vermont, Gouda from Wisconsin... we salute the most patriotic meatand-cheese platter you’ll ever serve. Cue the national anthem and grab a cracker. (The Perfect Picnic collection, originally $96, now 20 percent off with code oprah; murrayscheese.com)

Easy-Pleasy

A happy marriage of sweet and tart: Whisk a fruit-infused vinegar with a bit of olive oil, drizzle over greens, bask in applause. (Belberry fruit vinegars, originally $10 each, now 20 percent off with code oprah; igourmet.com)

Special Delivery

Yes, this ice cream is all good, with no preservatives, stabilizers, or additives. But it’s the Pint of the Month Club that thrills us: Sign up to receive three seasonal flavors for 3, 6, or 12 months. Sweet! (Pint of the Month Club, $72 for three months; mcconnells.com)

My Blue Heaven

Organic wild blueberries are high in fiber and vitamin C and have more antioxidants than their conventional counterparts. And this fivepound box will last—freeze them and make berry shakes all summer long! (Originally $50, now 20 percent off with code oprah; joshpond.com)

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Double the decadence: a lobster grilled cheese—four cheeses and tender lobster packed between buttered sourdough—is the Maine event. (Originally starting at $55 for two, now 20 percent off with code oprah; hancockgourmetlobster.com)

Berry Nice

Cool Factor

Anyone can grill burgers or chicken breasts, but if you serve them with one of these sweet-and-tangy fruit ketchups (like raspberry chipotle) handmade in Georgia, you’ll be the belle of the barbecue. (Originally $8 each, now 20 percent off with code oprah; blackberrypatch.com)

Step 1: Take out your ice cream maker and recipe. Step 2: Skip the first six or seven steps and use this organic blend instead. Step 3: Add mix-ins and freeze, or just freeze and enjoy what is quite possibly the best vanilla ice cream the O staff has ever tasted. (Organic ice cream mix, originally $14 for two quarts, now 20 percent off with code oprah; homecranked.com)

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English Breakfast

The humble English muffin has been supersized and filled with so much flavor that it needs only a drop of butter. But we suggest topping the jalapeño cheddar variety with a fried egg and bacon for one serious breakfast sammie. (Signature English muffins, originally starting at $22 for four packs of four, now 20 percent off with code oprah; wolfermans.com)

Fizzy Logic

Set out chopped fruit, a little vodka and rum, and this delightful sparkling sangria and let the DIY fiesta begin! (N.2 white wine sangria, originally $19.50, now 20 percent off with code oprah; sangrialolea.com)

Baker’s Dozen

Here’s a commitment-phobe’s dream dessert: 12 different baked-from-scratch minipies, including classic apple, bourbon pecan, and strawberry lemonade. (Hill Country Pie Kitchen pie cups, originally $70 for pack of 12, now 20 percent off with code oprah; foodydirect.com)

Boss Cakes

No need to tell guests you only thawed these “taste homemade” orange, strawberry, and coconut cakes—they’d never believe you anyway. (Spring cake trio, originally $43, now 20 percent off with code oprah; savannahcandy.com)

Sweet Stack

Once you start snacking on these creative cookies (Peach Cobbler, anyone?), you may not be able to stop! Even Gayle thinks they’re worth a few extra Weight Watchers points. (Summer cookie box, $23 for 12 cookies; cookiegood.com)

Ribs: A Love Story

Self-proclaimed barbecue maven Gayle King can’t get enough of these ribs—sweet, smoky, and fall-off-thebone sublime. Rack ’em up! (Chipotle BBQ ribs, originally $24 per rack, now 20 percent off with code oprah; hushamericanbistro.com)

It’s in the Bag

Make your hostess breakfast, and you’ll eat for a morning. Give your hostess a tote chock-full of granola, pancake mix, coffee beans, maple syrup, and jam, and you’ll eat for a weekend. (Breakfast tote, originally $80, now 20 percent off with code oprah; havenskitchen.com)

Honey, Do

Adam Glassman took one bite of this almond and honey cake and exclaimed, “There’s good, and then there’s oh-my-God good!” Guess which one this is. (We Take the Cake Beehive cake, originally $90, now 15 percent off with code oprah; williams-sonoma.com)

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That’s a Wrap When the heat is on, trade in your oversize watch for something lighter. With a small face and thin woven strap, the Tory Burch double-wrap watch is fun, effortless, and totally warm-weather approved. Wear it alone for a casual-cool look at a Fourth of July picnic, or get fancy and mix it with some star-spangled bling. Watches, $295 each; toryburch.com. Ring and bracelet, heartsonfire.com. Nail polish, Dior Vernis in Pandore, $27; dior.com. For details see Shop Guide. PHOTOGRAPH BY Jeff Harris OPRAH.COM

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$30

A pencil skirt goes from corporate to cool with perforated fabric and an obi belt. Belt, New York & Company; nyandcompany.com. $30 Skirt, lulus.com

A swimsuit with diagonal stripes and a solid bottom is super-slimming on every body. Marshalls stores $99

GREAT BUYS UNDER $100

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The body-con shape, bold cobalt shade, and peekaboo mesh make this bombshell dress a triple threat. guess.com

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Score major style points in athletic-inspired pieces with graphic patterns and structured silhouettes. STYLE ICON

White trim updates a classic aviator frame. SEE; seeeyewear.com

$58 Wear this flowing tank over a bright fitted skirt and the asymmetrical hem will stylishly stand out. Rafaella; belk.com

$49 An ombré face adds an unexpected touch to a simple silver timepiece. ninewest.com

Stripes of varying thickness make a nautical cardigan feel fresh. Merona; target.com $23

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$88 An oversize hobo holds all your musthaves and goes with all your summer outfits. povertyflats byrian.com

Slip into a dotty sneaker that looks fab with any ensemble— dresses and skirts included. Wanted; wantedshoes.com $50

Baby, you’re a firework in these fun and flattering high-waisted shorts. TTYA x Long Tall Sally; longtallsally.com

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An oversize yet lightweight stunner like this natureinspired necklace easily elevates basics. Capwell + Co.; capwell.co

A ballerina-inspired lace-up flat is delicately on pointe. $40 Wanted; wantedshoes.com

GREAT BUYS UNDER $100

$70 A breezy botanical midi can be worn loose or belted to define your waist. zara.com

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$40

Soft blooms, luxe fabrics, and a little shine are perfect for summer days and nights.

Add a dose of glamour to your wardrobe and pair this dazzling number with a fitted white tee. zara.com

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$70

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Make an edgy statement in airy geometric earrings. Noir Jewelry; noirnyc.com

ACTRESS BRIE LARSON WALKS THE RED CARPET.

$98 With scalloped edges and dainty lace, these blush shorts look fabulous dressed up or down. anntaylor.com $40 Teeny, tiny studs on an ivory sandal are simply sophisticated. shoedazzle.com

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A brocade box clutch is a structured counterpart to flowy summer styles. $95 deuxlux.com Boudoir dressing is hitting streets in a classy way. Wear these tile-print pieces together for a luxurious take on the pajama trend. Top $80 and pants, thelimited.com

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Check out these sophisticated ways to work your weekend faves at the office. Follow O creative director Adam Glassman on Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat @TheRealAdamSays.

TANK, $11; oldnavy.com SKIRT, Nic + Zoe, $128; nicandzoe.com

BELTED JACKET, $94; asos.com TOP, $45; thelimited.com

PUMPS, Marc Fisher LTD, $160; marcfisher footwear.com

NECKLACE,$125; michaelkors.com SHORTS, $25; oldnavy.com

BRACELET, $125; michaelkors.com WATCH, rado.com

TUBE TOPS Never appropriate for the office.

BAG, Welden, $395; weldenbags.com

NUDE HOSE Skip them, especially with open-toed shoes.

Instant Outfit Makers We’re all a bit more laid-back in the summer, but casual doesn’t have to mean sloppy. Just add these polished picks and you’ll be in business.

Layer a T- shirt under spaghetti straps. TOP, COS, $115; cosstores.com TANK, $44; loft.com PANTS, $79; calvinklein.com

MULES, $129; louiseetcie.com

FLIP-FLOPS If they’ve touched the sand, they shouldn’t come to work.

DENIM CUTOFFS Short shorts are a major no-no!

EARRINGS, $1,750; heartsonfire.com

CUFF, $225; kennethcole.com WATCH, Victorinox Swiss Army, $495; swissarmy.com

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BRACELETS, Holst + Lee, $160 to $165 each; holstandlee.com WATCH, Apple Watch, $699; apple.com

MARY JANES, SJP, $365; couture .zappos.com

BAG, $98; bananarepublic.com

BAG, $100; zara.com

VEST A long vest, especially worn over a flowy dress or top, gives you the structure of a blazer without the bulk. ($370; reiss.com)

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SLIDES Sandals at work? Sure, but no crazy colors or embellishments. Try a minimal, metallic slide for a chic yet professional look. ($475; alumnae.nyc)

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“CHICKIES” A light-as-air chickie under low-cut pieces keeps you appropriately Hooks to covered and cool. any bra! ($45 each; chickiescleavage coverage.com) For details see Shop Guide.

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Love That! PUFF PIECE Yellow pom-pom throw pillow, $17; HomeGoods stores

STEP LIVELY Tassel bath mat, $30; potterybarnteen.com

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STRINGS ATTACHED Alabat beach towel, $80; johnrobshaw.com

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TOP DRAWER Easton nightstand, $2,850; oomphonline.com

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ALL THE TRIMMINGS

BRIMMING WITH STYLE The Marisol hat, $419; saradesigns.net

Pom-poms and tassels add a playful touch to home decor.

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Announcing the new gold standard for hydrating balms: Tarte Quench Lip Rescue ($19; sephora.com), a drenching blend of flower and algae extracts, coconut oil, and vitamin E. Choose from four delicate shades— Opal, Rose, Berry, and Nude—for a subtle juicy tint.

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Part dry hair on the side or down the middle, then mist with dry shampoo from midlength to ends to give hair some grip.

Pull hair back into a low ponytail and secure with a coated elastic.

Wrap the ponytail around the base, pinning it as you go. Pinning the hair in segments, instead of all at once, will give the bun more hold. Use hairpins—not bobby pins, which can shred your style if you need to readjust.

Pull out a few strands around your face for a bohemian, romantic effect. Finish with a quick overall mist of hairspray.

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PETAL POWER Add beachy color to your nail polish wardrobe with these two pretty shades inspired by the balsam flower (Jin Soon Rose Balsam Collection, $18 each; jinsoon.com). Blush gives nails a healthy-looking pink tint; Crush, a playful, sheer cherry sheen.

MAGIC TOUCH I typically use foundation only on formal occasions (in other words, rarely), but I wanted to make it a daily event after trying the Surratt Surreal Skin Foundation Wand ($65; sephora.com). Why? The brilliant delivery system: Click the end of the wand to release the silky formula into a soft angled brush, then glide it over your face for a natural, flawless-looking finish. Complexion perfection has never been easier!

The always ebullient (and helpful) makeup artist Mally Roncal suggests this foolproof way to find the most flattering neutral: Match the shade to the inside of your lower lip. And, of course, she recommends her Mally Beauty Lip Sculpting Double Ended Pencil Duo ($26; qvc.com) for defining and highlighting.

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Fantasizing about a sun-soaked holiday but can’t get away? Here’s how to look and (almost) feel like you’re having a week in Capri without setting foot on a beach.

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Fake a vacation glow with one of these brilliant bronzing formulas (from top): For golden skin, mix Clinique Sun-Kissed Face Gelee Complexion Multitasker ($27; clinique.com) with your favorite foundation. For sheer, sparkling color, try Sephora Collection I ♥ Cushion Bronzer ($16; sephora.com); just tap the sponge to pick up the perfect amount. Warm up your complexion with the slightly shimmery L’Oréal Paris Sublime Bronze Summer Express Wash-Off Face Bronzer Cream ($11; drugstores), which contains antioxidant vitamin E and broad-spectrum SPF 20.

For luminosity that lasts all week, in the evening treat your skin to an Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Concentrated Recovery PowerFoil Mask ($79 for four; esteelauder.com). It’s packed with super-moisturizing hyaluronic acid and a blend of plant extracts to calm irritated skin. To look as if you’ve enjoyed several nights of vacation sleep, try Olay Eyes DePuffing Eye Roller ($25; drugstores) in the morning. The roller-ball applicator cools and soothes the eye area. Throughout the day, refresh your complexion with a spritz of Philosophy Renewed Hope in a Jar Microrenewal Hydrating Mist ($30; philosophy.com). The glycerin and hyaluronic acid boost your skin’s moisture levels, giving you a dewy finish.

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A few spritzes of the subtle floral Christophe Robin Instant Volumizing Mist ($39; sephora.com) will have you thinking of fragrant beach roses while it adds serious body to your style.

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Davines SU/Aftersun Replenishing Cream for Face and Body ($29; davines.com) is deliciously redolent of salty ocean air, sweet tropical blooms, and crisp apple—and it’s formulated with healing aloe vera and softening argan oil.

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YOU CAN’T WAIT to get away from it all—annoying coworkers, traffic jams, the endless cycle of chores. But you may not realize that you’re also taking a break from many of the things that keep you healthy: fresh, well-balanced meals; regular exercise; and transportation that doesn’t involve long stretches cooped up in recirculated air with dozens of other passengers. Enjoy your R&R without getting sick, thanks to this doctor-approved advice:

SPRAY AWAY GERMS The Sahara-like air on planes may spell trouble for your immune system. Dry nasal membranes are very susceptible to germs, says Martin L. Hopp, MD, PhD, medical director at the Cedars-Sinai Sinus Center in Los Angeles. “The cells lining your nose have microscopic hairs that move germs along,” he says. “But if your nose is too dry, the hairs don’t work efficiently.” An hour before your flight, use a saline nasal spray or gel (rubbed around your nostrils and under your nose with a cotton swab), then follow up once an hour until you land. This helps prevent germs from making their way into your throat and lungs, where they can cause infection.

STICK TO CARBONATED WATER Traveler’s diarrhea, which can afflict up to 70 percent of tourists in some foreign countries, is most often caused by bacteria, which may be present in tap water. “When I’m on a trip, I drink only bottled beverages with an intact seal,” says Herbert DuPont, MD, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. “Carbonated ones are the safest.” That’s because carbonation kills intestinal pathogens

by reducing the water’s pH level, according to a report in the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews.

TAKE MAGNESIUM BEFORE BED Roughly 48 percent of women ages 31 to 50 don’t get enough magnesium in their diet, and low levels of the mineral can increase the likelihood of muscle cramping, migraines, and irritability, all of which can keep you up at night. “Magnesium acts as a natural relaxant,” says Tieraona Low Dog, MD, former clinical associate professor of medicine at the University of Arizona. “Taking 400 milligrams of magnesium citrate for the first two nights of travel may not only help you fall asleep, it also acts as a laxative by pulling water into the intestine.” This is key because a change in time zones, sleep patterns, and diet while on vacation can lead to sluggish bowels and bloating.

TRY THIS! One way to make sure you don’t drink tap water or use it to brush your teeth while you’re in a foreign country: Tie a ribbon around the faucet as a quick reminder.

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and director of the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in New York City. He recommends pills that contain lactobacilli and bifidobacteria with a total of at least 30 billion units (most products include this info on the label). Both strains may help prevent G.I. disorders.

FAST BEFORE A LONG FLIGHT A lab study in the journal Science suggests that animals have a second biological clock that can reset their circadian rhythms, telling the body to shut down when food is scarce and wake up when it’s plentiful again. Though it hasn’t been demonstrated in humans, there’s no reason to doubt that our biological clock works this way, too, says lead study author Clifford Saper, MD, PhD, department chair of neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. For an overnight flight to Europe, for example, you would stop eating after lunch, go to sleep when the plane takes off, then eat a hearty breakfast when you arrive the next morning to reset to your destination’s time zone. Bon voyage!

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Eat Healthy(ish) Wherever You Are This Summer Good eating habits don’t have to go bust while you’re enjoying fun in the sun. Consider this your mini-guide to guilt-free indulging. BY Kate Rockwood

TRYING TO EAT WELL when you’re away from home can sometimes feel like a lose-lose proposition: Give in to cravings and feel like sludge later, or deny yourself and feel left out—and hungry. Here’s how to find a delicious middle ground.

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A burger is a rich source of iron, a mineral women are more likely to be deficient in than men. Your body needs iron to build the red blood cells that transport oxygen throughout the body. Too little, and you may end up foggy and fatigued. (Needless to say, you should skip the chili and cheese to keep calories down.)

Baked potatoes make a substantial base for a pile of veggies, like sautéed spinach and mushrooms. And they can also slash the guilt of ordering BBQ brisket or pulled pork. Instead of eating a standard sandwich, ask for a spud with just a little meat on it— you’ll consume less, plus you’ll get more fiber and potassium, a mineral that helps control blood pressure.

“Soft pretzels are a solid choice, and if you split one with a friend, it’s even better,” says Shames. Despite the salt, this doughy treat typically packs less of a sodium wallop than stadium popcorn or cheesy nachos.

Pistachios, which are among the lowest-calorie nuts, contain powerful phytonutrients that help fight tissue-damaging free radicals. “And the ones with shells that most stadiums sell take a little longer to eat, so snacking on them feels more satisfying,” says Lakatos.

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Ballpark fare isn’t just peanuts and Cracker Jacks anymore. At Chase Field in Arizona, for instance, fans can order a deep-fried churro in a split chocolate-glazed doughnut topped with fro yo, caramel and chocolate sauces, and whipped cream. The monstrosity can have more than 1,100 calories. To eat smarter, use these tips from dietitians Tammy Lakatos Shames and Lyssie Lakatos, coauthors of The Nutrition Twins’ Veggie Cure.

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Fast Food Joint A drive-through meal can range from 300 to 3,000 calories—so don’t abandon all sense of discernment. Lakatos suggests picking a producecentric menu item—like the green beans at KFC, baked potato at Wendy’s, or garden side salad at Burger King—and building from there with other healthy additions.

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SNACKS

IF YOUR ONLY OPTION IS A

Head for the refrigerator case. “Yogurt or string cheese is always a great idea, and grab any fresh fruit you see,” says Penn State professor of nutritional science Barbara J. Rolls, PhD. If you have a sweet craving, go for a Kind dark chocolate, nut, and sea salt bar, which contains five grams of sugar—about one-fifth as much as some candy bars.

Opt for an egg-and-cheese sandwich on an English muffin—it will almost always clock in at under 400 calories and has enough protein to help keep you feeling full. And don’t shy away from egg yolks: They’re a top source of choline, a nutrient that’s been linked to better memory.

The taco truck’s siren song becomes even more irresistible when you’re hungry and emptyhanded. “It’s important to keep snacks around that have staying power,” says registered dietitian Katie Sullivan Morford, author of the upcoming cookbook Rise and Shine. She shares easy make-ahead bites that can power you through any outing.

NUT BUTTER ENERGY BALLS

SPICED CAULIFLOWER BITES

CHILLED YOGURT PARFAITS

In a bowl, stir together ½ cup nut or seed butter, ½ cup honey, 1 cup instant nonfat dry milk powder, and ¼ cup flax meal. With your hands, form 1¼" balls, arrange in a single layer in a container, and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. You’ll get a poppable snack that’s filling and full of protein and calcium.

Cauliflower doesn’t exactly say summer fun—but this Middle Eastern–spiced, savory treat is full of flavor: Put 1 head cauliflower, cut into florets, on a baking sheet; drizzle with 1 Tbsp. olive oil; and sprinkle with ¼ tsp. salt and ¼ tsp. each cumin and paprika. Toss well and roast at 400° for 30 minutes. Bonus: This cruciferous veggie is an excellent source of vitamin C.

Skip the ice cream—and still enjoy a refreshing parfait. Freeze grapes, blueberries, or raspberries ahead of time. Then, in a small jar, layer 1/3 cup frozen fruit with 2/3 cup yogurt and 2 Tbsp. slivered almonds or granola. The probiotics in many protein-rich yogurts may help improve digestion.

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POMEGRANATE POWER BARK Place 6 ounces finely chopped bittersweet chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over (not in) a pan of simmering water. Stir until melted, then add 1/3 cup cashew butter. Remove from heat, stir in 1/3 cup chopped roasted cashews and ½ cup raisins. Spread onto a parchment-lined baking sheet and sprinkle with 3 Tbsp. roasted, salted pumpkin seeds and 3 Tbsp. pomegranate seeds. Cool and break into bite-size pieces.

CRUISE CONTROL IF YOU CAN’T RESIST THE ICE CREAM TRUCK Both rocket pops and Fudgsicles will satisfy your sweet craving for 100 calories or fewer. Other frozen treats can be twice as high in calories.

Three tricks to help you leave the all-you-can-eat buffet satisfied, not stuffed.

FACE AWAY FROM THE ACTION

“Out of sight, out of mind” applies to the buffet, suggests research from Cornell University’s Food and Brand Lab. When scientists observed more than 200 diners at 11 all-you-can-eat restaurants, they found that those with a high BMI were more likely to pick seats facing the buffet than those with a low one.

SURVEY ALL YOUR OPTIONS

In the Cornell study, 71 percent of slim diners browsed all the buffet choices before serving themselves, compared with just 33 percent of eaters with a higher BMI.

PLAN A POSTMEAL ACTIVITY

Committing to some type of movement after a meal makes buffet eaters less likely to overdo it, says David Just, PhD, a behavioral economics professor at Cornell. In his study, subjects who had an all-youcan-eat lunch before playing volleyball ate fewer calories than those who planned to be sedentary afterward.

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Keep mosquitoes, biting flies, and other pests at arm’s length. BY Elyse Moody

THE BUZZ ABOUT BUGS—and the health problems they can cause—is louder than ever. Thanks to the rise of the Zika virus—a flu-like disease spread mostly by mosquitoes that has been linked to an array of birth defects—using insect repellent is becoming a no-brainer, just like slathering on sunscreen. You may be aware of what SPF you need and how often to reapply, but do you know the numbers when it comes to bug spray? Now’s the time to find out: The CDC reported this spring that Zika may affect many parts of the U.S., and it’s only one of several mosquito-borne diseases you’ll want to ward off. Follow these three rules to protect yourself.

CHECK THE LABEL

The most effective insect repellents include one of these active ingredients: DEET, picaridin, the chemical IR3535, or OPRAH.COM

oil of lemon eucalyptus. “DEET, picaridin, and IR3535 confuse an insect’s sense of smell,” says Kathy Cearnal, senior director of research and development for Spectrum Brands, which includes Repel and Cutter. “If a bug can’t smell you, it doesn’t know to bite you.” Oil of lemon eucalyptus, on the other hand, acts as a true repellent, she says: “Insects don’t like the smell, so they simply won’t come near treated skin.” The general rule is that the higher the concentration of the active ingredient, the longer the protection. For one to two hours outdoors, use a low level (5 to 10 percent) of picaridin or DEET; for a longer period (eight to ten hours) or a buggier situation, like a hike in the woods, use 20 percent or higher picaridin, IR3535, or DEET. Most products with oil of lemon eucalyptus come in a 30 percent concentration, which works well for up to six hours.

STAY PROTECTED

Depending on the mosquito population in your area, it may be more important to wear repellent for your morning walk than for dinner on the porch, but play it safe and use some whenever you’re heading outside. For instance, Aedes aegypti, the main species responsible for Zika and chikungunya (a painful virus that swept through the Caribbean in 2015), bites primarily during the day, while a West Nile–spreading cousin attacks mostly at night.

APPLY CORRECTLY

Order matters: Put on sunscreen first, let it dry for up to 30 minutes, then spray insect repellent. You can apply DEET and picaridin products to your clothes (but don’t put DEET on rayon or spandex—it’ll damage the fabric) to prevent mosquitoes from biting through them. (Don’t use any under your clothing; your skin should be able to breathe.) As with SPF, you may need to reapply more frequently if you’re going to be in water or getting sweaty. And don’t forget your feet! Mosquitoes often fly low to the ground and go for the ankles.

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SOPHISTICATED WELLNESS apps are turning our phones into portable health advisers—just the thing for the season when everyone’s on the go. This handy bunch will keep you feeling your best through Labor Day and beyond.

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Only about 30 percent of American women regularly use sunscreen on both their face and other exposed skin, according to a recent report from the CDC. Consider downloading this mini sun-care manual, which clearly displays the UV index in your area using vibrant colors: Blues and greens mean that the average person should use modest sun protection (sunglasses and SPF 30+), while reds and purples signal a dangerously high index. bonus f eature : The app also includes general sun safety advice, so you’ll know when it’s time to put on a hat or avoid going outside altogether.

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HARVEST—SELECT THE BEST PRODUCE Missed the Saturday farmers’ market? This app can help you pick the ripest and freshest produce at the grocery store with smart buying advice for more than 100 fruits and veggies. For instance, the more vivid a strawberry’s color, the more likely it is to be high in antioxidants. bonus f eatur e : With pesticide data from the Environmental Working Group, you’ll know which produce has the least residue.

LYME DISEASE TICK MAP New research from the CDC shows that Lyme disease–spreading ticks have been found in nearly half of U.S. counties, possibly because of climate change. The good news: You no longer have to worry needlessly. With the Lyme Disease Tick Map, created by the American Lyme Disease Foundation with the Yale School of Public Health and the CDC, you have a guide right in your pocket that helps you identify ticks you might encounter (blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that cause the disease). bonus f eatur e : The in-app physician database makes it easy to get help if you’re concerned about a bite.

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Thyroid

Women are far likelier than men to suffer from issues with this hardworking gland. Here’s what to watch out for.

YOUR THYROID , the butterfly-shaped

gland in your neck, has a mighty job: producing hormones that regulate nearly every system in the body, including metabolism, energy, and brain function. But it’s also prone to go on the fritz. More than 12 percent of Americans will develop a thyroid disorder in their lifetime, but up to 60 percent of them won’t know it because the conditions are difficult to diagnose. The classic symptoms— sluggishness, weight loss, weight gain—can mimic those of chronic stress or other conditions and, as a result, can be overlooked by sufferers and their doctors. Don’t let that happen to you.

THYROID CANCER The chance of receiving a thyroid cancer diagnosis has tripled in the last 30 years, making this the most rapidly increasing cancer in America—and women are three times more likely than men to develop the disease. While doctors estimate that part of this increase is

HYPOTHYROIDISM This is the most common thyroid disorder, occurring when the gland doesn’t produce enough hormones and, as a result, metabolism slows. h ow to spot it : Symptoms range widely, from frequent constipation, low energy levels, and shortness of breath to weight gain, depression, and hair loss. Your doctor can check your levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) using a simple blood test. (If TSH is high, thyroid levels are low.) to low er you r ris k : Since some forms of hypothyroidism may be genetic, the best thing you can do is check your J U LY 2 0 1 6

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family’s medical history in case you need to be on the lookout for red flags. common tr eatmen t : Levothyroxine, a synthetic version of the thyroid hormone T4, regulates metabolism and steadies hormonal imbalances.

HYPERTHYROIDISM This condition occurs when your thyroid is hyperactive and speeds up metabolism. how to sp ot it: Telltale signs include sudden weight loss, a fast and irregular heartbeat, excessive sweating, difficulty sleeping, and more frequent bowel movements. to low er your ri sk : Don’t smoke; lighting up is associated with a greater risk of Graves’ disease, the most common cause of hyperthyroidism in the U.S. common tr eatmen t : Radioiodine, which is given orally to shrink the thyroid and help get it back on track, is the first course of action. Make sure your doctor keeps tabs on your blood work—the substance will often cause you to underproduce T4, leaving you with hypothyroidism, which has fewer long-term complications. MEHMET OZ, MD, is the host of The Dr. Oz Show (weekdays; check local listings).

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due to overdiagnosis (one type of thyroid tumor has recently been downgraded from cancer), some invasive cases are also on the rise. h ow to spot it : Women diagnosed with thyroid cancer are usually in their 40s or 50s. It doesn’t always have noticeable warning signs, but you should see a doctor if you feel swelling or lumps in your neck or have trouble swallowing—and make sure your neck is examined at your annual physical. to lowe r you r ris k : Lose weight. A recent study found that overweight people had a 25 percent higher risk of thyroid cancer; for those who are obese, the risk rose to 55 percent. The link is still unclear, but one possible explanation is that excess fat releases proteins that may contribute to tumor formation. co mmo n tre at men t : Removing the thyroid (some or all of it), followed by radioiodine therapy, a medication given in capsule or liquid form to destroy any remaining thyroid tissue and treat or prevent the spread of the cancer. For cases that don’t respond to radioiodine therapy (5 to 15 percent of patients), a new drug called lenvatinib has been shown to shrink tumors in nearly 65 percent of progressive cases, according to one clinical trial.

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WHAT ARE YOU IN THE MOOD to read this summer? A classic page-turner, light and diverting? We’ve got just the books for you! But if you’d prefer to plumb deeper depths, you’re in luck, too: This year boasts an unusual volume of volumes exploring the thrilling and thorny stuff that makes us human— stories of love, loss, friendship, ingenuity, daring, and spirit. We think of them as books that make a difference—every one of them worth the plunge! R E V I E W S B Y L E I G H H A B E R , D O T U N A K I N T OY E , N A TA L I E B E AC H , H A M I LT O N C A I N / P H O T O G R A P H S B Y JOEL ROBISON

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IF YOU’VE EVER DROPPED everything to follow your heart, been betrayed or betrayed your own vows for lust, or magically found (or refound) “the one” after giving up hope, feast on these six delectable books, all celebrating the soul-reviving, hormonepumping, faith-renewing power of love.

I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT YOU by Terry McMillan (Crown)

Meet Georgia Young, a 50-something optometrist whose comfortable life is upended by news of her first boyfriend’s death in a car accident. Georgia reacts to the jolt by chucking her career, putting her house on the market, and resolving to track down all her past sweethearts. Lucky for her, two of her college friends and her daughters are always there to catch her if she falls. McMilllan paints relationships in joyous primary colors; her novel brims with sexy repartee, caustic humor, and a fluent, assured prose that shines a bright light on her memorable characters. Her very best since Waiting to Exhale.

Invincible Summer

by Alice Adams (Little, Brown)

Four college besties are separated by time, experience, and geography, but when the chips are down, these friends with benefits find one another again, in a fun and frothy debut novel set in England, India, Spain, and beyond.

What We Become

by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Atria)

This riveting, intricately layered historical novel follows two paramours: Mesha is the beautiful wife of a famous composer, and Max is a charming con artist and spy. Their illicit affair begins aboard a luxury liner traveling from Lisbon to Buenos Aires.

The Blackbirds by Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton)

A hot-as-all-get-out novel about four women and the relationships—a fling with an older man,

a toe-curling afternoon with another woman— that could end their friendships once and for all.

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THE GILDED CAGE

GIVENCHY GOWNS. Penthouse apartments. Black Escalades. Private jets. The trappings of the 1 percent may seem as enticing as they are elusive, but is there something corrosive about überwealth? This mélange of titles (five novels and a memoir) look beneath the sheen of affluence to lay bare its not-so-appealing side—say, Park Avenue as prison, or a Dickensian alternate reality perfectly drawn for our status-obsessed era—and underscore the truth that in the end, mortality gets us all.

This Is Not My Beautiful Life by Victoria Fedden (Picador)

The author was nine months’ pregnant when the feds raided her parents’ home and arrested her mother for fraud. A scandalously funny memoir about starting a new family while taking care of the felonious one you’ve already got.

by Emma Straub (Riverhead)

Even gentrifiers get the blues in this bittersweet novel following the intertwined lives of now-middle-aged Oberlin graduates, complete with historic homes, farm-to-table restaurants, and adolescent children who have—typically, yet shockingly—started sleeping with each other.

We Could Be Beautiful by Swan Huntley (Doubleday)

Love Wins

by Debbie Cenziper (William Morrow)

A galvanizing reallife account of how devotion in the face of terminal illness and disenfranchisement brought together a widower and a group of ferociously principled lawyers who waged and won the legal battle for marriage equality.

SMOKE

by Dan Vyleta (Doubleday)

If Bernie Sanders wrote a Victorian thriller, it might read something like this—a stunningly inventive social novel in which your economic class is revealed not by the car you drive or the school your kids attend, but by whether your body emits smoke when you think an impure thought. The poor are covered in soot, while the rich remain clean even when they think dirty—proof that the aristocracy has a divine right to rule. Or so it seems, until three teenagers risk their lives to expose the gritty truth.

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A novel that is deeper than its heiress-meetsman-of-her-dreams setup. The reason: Huntley’s uncanny ability to detect the fault lines in Manhattan’s glitterati as if flaws in a precious diamond— and make us laugh about them.

Rich and Pretty

by Rumaan Alam (Ecco)

Sarah, daughter of socialites, is rich. Career-driven Lauren is—you guessed it— pretty. Their sisterlike friendship is put to

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the test when one gets married and becomes a stay-athome mom while the other remains in the fray. Can they find a new way of fitting together?

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (Grand Central)

A struggling painter is inexorably drawn into the lives—and fiery deaths— of two moguls, one financial, the other media, in the suspenseful new novel by the showrunner for FX’s darkly humorous hit series Fargo.

Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty

by Ramona Ausubel (Riverhead)

In 1976, amid the cloistered estates of Martha’s Vineyard, an idyllic vacation is cut short when a couple learns that the trust fund they’ve been living off of is kaput. Ausubel’s timely, sophisticated tale explores what happens when a charmed life loses its luster.

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IS AMERICA DIFFERENT from other nations for its obsession with liberty and justice, its wide open spaces, its questing and restless innovation? Each of these provocative books offers surprising takes on protest, courage, big-picture thinking, nature, genius. Taken together, they enrich our understanding of our roots and our appreciation of the challenging expanse we call home.

THE HOUR OF LAND

by Terry Tempest Williams (Sarah Crichton Books)

“Our national parks are memory palaces where our personal histories reside,” muses naturalist and activist Williams in her ode to the sacred spaces—millions of acres from Alaska to Maine—that are the legacy of Abraham Lincoln’s 1864 Yosemite Grant Act. Whether contemplating the spiritual life she finds “inside the heart of the wild” or marveling at the peaks and monuments that comprise “our best idea”— the National Parks system—Williams movingly urges us to remember that “heaven is here.”

The Lynching

by Laurence Leamer (William Morrow)

Morris Dees, the civil rights attorney who cofounded the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the landmark 1984 lawsuit he won on behalf of a slain black man’s family are at the heart of this stirring true story of racial politics and the legal takedown of the Ku Klux Klan.

Witness to the Revolution by Clara Bingham (Random House)

A gripping oral history of the centrifugal social forces tearing America apart at the end of

the ’60s—Nixonian corruption, the war in Indochina, the Black Panthers, psychedelic drugs, Cointelpro, youthquake, domestic terrorism—with recollections by Bill Ayers, Jane Fonda, and Carl Bernstein, among others. This is rousing reportage from the front lines of U.S. history.

amenities in tow, the disaster-prone White revels in a cherished national pastime— camping—with curiosity and humor.

Never a Dull Moment: 1971—The Year That Rock Exploded by David Hepworth (Henry Holt)

Under the Stars

by Dan White (Henry Holt)

Whether sharing the backstory of everyone’s favorite fireside dessert (s’mores, of course), roughing it in the buff, or braving the wilderness with 21st-century

A revelatory account of the bombshell 365 days that gave birth to what the author dubs “the rock era”—12 months when Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, Sly Stone, and a host of others broke with convention to give us the music that made us.

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How the Post Office Created America by Winifred Gallagher (Penguin Press)

Without a postal service linking far-flung territories together like “a central nervous system,” our country’s story would have been radically different. Including American originals like Ben Franklin (the first postmaster general) and the young riders of the Pony Express, this invigorating book tells the unlikely story of snail mail—not at all dull, though perhaps soon to be extinct.

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Writers’ Writers Are there certain books you go back to again and again, that enrich your understanding, that make you laugh—that keep you sane? That’s the question we posed to some of our most intriguing authors. Their surprising answers... I cherish essay collections— they are long-term companions one repeatedly dips into. Three favorites are There & Then by James Salter, Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith, and Portraits by John Berger. In all, beautiful writing and good thinking meet so completely, you can’t tell where one ends and the other begins. —TEJU COLE,

author of the novels Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief

I once saw a sign in front of a church: we’re all just trying to get home. No book does a better job of reminding me of that than The Odyssey. —JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER,

author of the bestselling Everything Is Illuminated and the forthcoming Here I Am Lynda Barry might be the most underrated writer ever. She is the wisest and funniest chronicler of adolescence in America, and when my inner loner starts wailing uncontrollably, I pick up anything of hers and laugh until my face hurts, until she inevitably hits me with something so profoundly true and heartbreaking, I wonder if she’s been spying on me my whole life. —MARY-LOUISE PARKER,

actress and author of the memoir Dear Mr. You

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THE WOMEN AT THE CENTER of these six essential titles are united in their attempts to navigate a host of fresh-off-yourTwitter-feed issues including but not limited to sexism, sizeism, public exhibitionism, boring boyfriends, violent boyfriends, cocaine, the internet, date rape, family secrets, judicial corruption, writer’s block, hookup culture, and Eastern European sex slavery. In genres ranging from memoir to crime thriller to short fiction, the scenes—even those that, on the face of it, seem far-fetched—are achingly familiar and all too real.

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on the topic of rape culture, internet trolls, or loud-and-proud fat activism. We’re all ears!

Dating Tips for the Unemployed by Iris Smyles (Mariner)

The prodigiously inventive Smyles melds novel, autobiography, and all manner of asides as she flails at art, love, and friendship with the wry intelligence of someone just wise enough to realize they have no idea what they’re doing. A flatout joy to read. by Jessica Valenti

(Ecco)

Girl meets girl, girl gets life-threatening intestinal infection, girl’s mother dies, girl breaks up with girl, girl gets breast cancer, girl performs groundbreaking comedy routine about said tragedies, girl skyrockets to pop culture stardom. Notaro’s story is funny not because it’s true (although it is), but because it’s told by the world-class stand-up with wit and vulnerability.

A zesty, zeitgeisty memoir in three acts—bodies, boys, and babies—from the cofounder of the trailblazing blog Feministing.com.

Lippman draws on two decades of crime reporting to produce a heart-stopping new thriller, which pivots on a state attorney’s drive and cunning as she unravels a baffling murder case with personal implications.

(Spiegel & Grau)

In this sardonic, smart, and thoroughly modern debut collection, Ulman presents nine stories about young women on the verge of adulthood, motherhood, and more who make momentous decisions while delirious with desire.

Shrill

by Lindy West (Hachette)

The literary debut of a critic unafraid to knee the patriarchy in the groin—to wit, her slogan: “Silence is not an option.” West takes no prisoners, whether

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Stories by Abigail Ulman

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by Tig Notaro

by Laura Lippman

Hot Little Hands

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HOMEGOING by Yaa Gyasi (Knopf)

Spanning two continents and three centuries, Yaa Gyasi’s luminous debut evokes the tortured legacy of the slave trade through the story of two half sisters and their descendants. The novel toggles between plot lines: one set along Africa’s Gold Coast, the other against the brutality of American racism. The author thrillingly depicts her characters’ migrations from mud-hut villages to Harlem’s jazz clubs to Ghana’s silvered beaches, celebrating how place and fate shape us all.

The Nordic Theory of Everything

by Anu Partanen (Harper)

After Newsweek declares Finland “the best country in the world” and the United Nations names it the second happiest, a Finnish transplant to the U.S. sets out to find a cure for her anxiety by looking homeward, in an engaging fusion of reportage and memoir.

The Gene

by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)

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A HERO OR HEROINE embarks on a voyage and in the process is transformed: It’s the oldest story we tell. Whether it’s the tragedies of the African diaspora, a scientist decoding the mysteries of medicine while unearthing family secrets, or a gourmand’s gastronomical quest among the cities and villages of China, these enthralling titles explore how personal journeys can mirror dramatic developments in the world and in our hearts.

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The Pulitzer Prize winner weaves an epic history of human speculation, error, discovery, and wonder about our genetic code in a close-to-the-bone story of hereditary mental illness in his own family. An unexpectedly enthralling inquiry into the realm of bioethics.

Double Cup Love by Eddie Huang (Spiegel & Grau)

When a ChineseTaiwanese-NYC celebrity chef falls in love with an

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Italian girl from Scranton, Pennsylvania, he resolves to retrace his family’s migration to reconnect with his roots. From the enfant terrible behind Chairman Mao’s Cherry Cola Skirt Steak recipe and the hit memoir Fresh Off the Boat.

The Noise of Time

by Julian Barnes (Knopf)

Barnes’s exquisite new novel charts the peripatetic career of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906– 1975), Stalin’s almost victim—spared so he could show the world the power of Soviet culture even as he grapples with troubling questions about politics and art.

In the Darkroom

by Susan Faludi (Metropolitan Books)

When a feminist writer learns that her once-abusive father is now living as a woman, she flies to Hungary to meet the parent she never really knew and investigate urgent new questions of identity.

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IN A WORLD consumed by wars of all kinds, how do we make sense of the madness? Through peerless on-the-ground reporting, inquiries into the impact of “sanitized” modes of warfare, and fictional adventures and misadventures, these six books invite us to swim against the tides of violence and ask why we so often fail to give peace a chance.

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GRUNT: THE CURIOUS SCIENCE OF HUMANS AT WAR by Mary Roach (W.W. Norton)

Our most consistently entertaining science journalist wanders into the “corners and crannies” of military technology. Roach goes where other writers wouldn’t dare (witness her classic take on cadavers, Stiff), here eyeing “the parts no one makes movies about—not the killing but the keeping alive.” And her search produces images—a kind of technopoetry—that are hard to forget: a cannon firing chickens into airplanes, urethra replacement surgery, a “brief history of stink bombs.”

Tribe

by Sebastian Junger (Twelve)

Drawing on his extensive reporting in Afghanistan and marrow-deep empathy for veterans afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder, Junger argues with candor and grace for the everlasting remedies of community and connectedness.

A Hero of France

by Alan Furst (Random House)

Considered one of the premier writers of historical spy fiction,

Furst delivers a vivid portrait of a French Resistance fighter in World War II Paris and of a city still alive and very much itself—even as the Nazi grip tightens.

Native Believer by Ali Eteraz (Akashic)

M.’s life spins out of control after his boss discovers a Qur’an in M.’s house during a party, in this wickedly funny Philadelphia picaresque about a secular Muslim’s identity crisis in a country waging a never-ending war on terror.

Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals

The Way to the Spring

(Blue Rider)

An American Jewish writer resides in the West Bank off and on for three years. What follows is an impassioned and humane story of Palestinian resilience in the face of daily humiliations, bloodshed, and a decades-long struggle for home.

by Jesse Armstrong

From the Oscarnominated cowriter of the British film comedy In the Loop comes a blistering satire about a London theater troupe attempting to end the Bosnian conflagration of the mid-’90s, wielding only the weapons of youthful idealism and an unfinished script.

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by Ben Ehrenreich (Penguin Press)

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Writers’ Writers Give me an English family—a bit eccentric, prone to romantic misbehavior, sexual secrets, and large dinner gatherings—and I will surrender, sink in, and be gone. Anthony Powell’s 12-volume cycle of novels, A Dance to the Music of Time, is one. English novels almost always make me happy. —GEORGE HODGMAN,

author of Bettyville, a memoir

I adore the refreshing skepticism of Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science. Whenever a story on Facebook fills me with mother-guilt (panic that I’ve done my son or daughter permanent harm by letting them have cell phones or not washing their fruit), I channel my inner Goldacre: Oh, really? Who says? Based on what? —EMMA DONOGHUE,

author of the novels Room and Slammerkin

Just occasionally a book comes along that dramatically rewires your world view. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is one such. It tells our story—our human history—in a way that challenges every assumption we have. Some might find it unsettling, but for me it was exhilarating and unputdownable. —CHRIS ANDERSON,

author of TED Talks

The Autobiography of Malcolm X grounds me. It’s my go-to. —SHAKA SENGHOR,

author of Writing My Wrongs, a memoir

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Writers’ Writers I’ve loved Calvin Trillin’s The Tummy Trilogy since I was a child, when my dad read it aloud to me. —REBECCA TRAISTER,

author of Big Girls Don’t Cry and All the Single Ladies I recently came upon the unjustly neglected but blissful novels of William Dean Howells. Like Jane Austen, they revel in domestic success and unsuccess; like Henry James, they sometimes set their Americans in Europe; like Anthony Trollope, they are skeptically aware of political turmoil. —CYNTHIA OZICK,

author of Quarrel & Quandary and The Shawl

I was 45, and all I knew about the Civil War was what I’d read in high school. Embarrassed by my ignorance, I made Shelby Foote’s nearly 3,000-page, three-volume trilogy (The Civil War) my bedtime reading for several months. Foote’s gift for storytelling creates a narrative so engrossing, I’d forget I knew the war’s outcome and keep turning pages, desperate to find out what happened. —DAVID BENIOFF,

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THEY SAY DON’T meet your heroes, lest they disappoint you.... We say you should bring them along on vacation. These vivid portraits of rock luminaries, poets, provocateurs, and literary lights will provide scintillating companionship wherever summer finds you.

co-creator of HBO’s Game of Thrones and author of the novel The 25th Hour

Post Office by Charles Bukowski is the book I refer to when I want to confront the narrative voice at its barest, most honest, most unflattering—and most winning. —OTTESSA MOSHFEGH,

author of Eileen, a novel

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PAUL McCARTNEY: THE LIFE by Philip Norman (Little, Brown)

What’s left to reveal about one of the most chronicled musicians of the 20th century? As it turns out, a great deal. With the notoriously guarded McCartney’s “tacit approval,” Norman sheds new light on well-known Beatles stories and then goes further, forging a thoroughly absorbing account of McCartney’s life after the group’s breakup: business ventures, parenthood, personal tragedy, the struggle to live and create beyond the legacy of his fabled band. The result is a tantalizing trip down the legend’s own long and winding road.

Everybody Behaves Badly by Lesley M.M. Blume (HMH)

Few writers mythologized their own misbehavior with more gusto than Ernest Hemingway. In this history of the Spanish sojourn that inspired The Sun Also Rises, we encounter Hemingway before his fame—a charming, at times cruel social climber on the cusp of brilliance.

The Sun and the Moon and the Rolling Stones by Rich Cohen (Spiegel & Grau)

A “rock-’n’-roll monotheist” riffs with revivalist fervor on the sacred relics of his devotion: Mick, Keith, and their music, “a saga in which a handful of musicians stand for the longings of a society.”

A Loaded Gun by Jerome Charyn (Bellevue Literary Press)

Still obsessed with his subject years after writing the 2010 novel The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, Charyn converts his

preoccupation into a magnetic nonfiction reevaluation of the mystifying, radical, perhaps bisexual, and maybe greatest-ever American poet.

Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays by Cynthia Ozick (HMH)

Audacious, outrageously erudite, trenchant, and cranky as ever, one of our leading women of letters fixes her steely gaze on the essential role of the critic in witty, absorbing essays that encompass such literary heroes as Saul Bellow, W.H. Auden, and Franz Kafka.

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AMERICAN PASTORAL

SOMEWHERE in the endless vistas of our wide and deep country are young girls becoming indigenous berserks, little towns slowly and silently fading away, fruited plains and ferocious rivers, natural disasters and manmade ones, wild horses and their even wilder masters—all coexisting on a vast, mystic frontier.

THE GIRLS

by Emma Cline (Random House)

Evie is like most 14-year-old females: slightly awkward, beginning to be sexually curious, and constantly measuring herself against other girls. But it’s California in the summer of 1969, and the other girls are members of a Manson-like cult that Evie does not have the sense of self to resist. A mesmerizing debut from an author on intimate terms with the blood, sweat, and tears of American adolescence.

The Sport of Kings

by C.E. Morgan (FSG)

The splendor and barbarism of horse racing and the legacy of slavery are just two of the threads in this sprawling, magisterial Southern Gothic for the 21st century.

Marrow Island by Alexis M. Smith (HMH)

A faltering journalist returns to an island abandoned after an earthquake released a toxic spill. That’s the beautifully wrought setting of this novel, which reunites two childhood friends, one of whom has joined a sect claiming it can heal the land.

Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer by Arthur Lubow

Lions

(Ecco)

by Bonnie Nadzam

A magnificent biography of an artist who trained her lens on unconventional subjects—drag queens, circus performers, dominatrixes—knowing there were “things that nobody would see unless I photographed them.”

(Black Cat)

“How long can a man believe he lives in a country that doesn’t actually exist...?” This is the question the

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people of the isolated fictional town of Lions, Colorado, must ask themselves in this story of haunted histories and broken promises.

Buffalo Jump Blues by Keith McCafferty (Viking)

A small herd of bison stampede off a cliff. Among the carcasses is the body of a Native American man killed by an arrow shot. Enter P.I. Sean Stranahan and his ex, Sheriff Martha Ettinger, trying to find out whodunit without driving each other over the edge in this Montana-flavored mystery.

Nitro Mountain by Lee Clay Johnson (Knopf)

This darkly stunning tale of stark dramas and tragic lives plays out against a backdrop of mournful country music and Appalachia’s lush, lonely peaks.

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LIKE ALL STANDOUT speculative fiction, these books use alternate realities as MacGuffins, telling tales about the present, the past, or eras that have yet to occur. In their visions of pandemics, fiscal crises, alternate histories, environmental disasters, and life-size sex dolls, you’ll discern a terrifying familiarity among the bizarre.

THE MANDIBLES: A FAMILY, 2029–2047 by Lionel Shriver (Harper)

In a Brooklyn soon to be, the upper-middle-class Mandible family copes with extreme water and food shortages, rampant homelessness, and an economy in meltdown. Tracing her characters’ varying responses to the emergency, Shriver deftly blends parable and satire with today’s headlines, creating a nightmarish world that looms just over the horizon.

The City of Mirrors

by Justin Cronin (Ballantine)

In the explosive climax to Cronin’s best-selling Passage trilogy, a century-long vampiric siege has seemingly ended. But one monster lives on, determined to kill the young woman who is humankind’s only hope.

Underground Airlines

by Ben H. Winters (Mulholland Books)

An altered past in which the Civil War was never fought and slavery not fully abolished leads to the strange, modern universe of this genrebending detective yarn, in which Victor, formerly a slave, works as a bounty hunter tracking a mysterious runaway.

The Swan Book by Alexis Wright (Atria)

Set in a surreal Australia that melds myths and fairy tales with political and environmental

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tumult, Wright’s astonishingly inventive novel creates its own language and illuminates the embattled history of the Aborigines.

Some Possible Solutions Stories by Helen Phillips (Holt)

Phillips’s gift is for making the peculiar seem like it’s happening down the street: A couple in crisis decides to formally bring in a Stepford wife–like third party; a woman inhabits a city where she keeps encountering doppelgängers. And just when you think you’re onto Phillips’s game, here comes another little fable, postmodernist puzzle, or sly revelation.

The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan (Hogarth)

The eagerly awaited second novel from the author of The Panopticon imagines an ice age in which Stella, a transgender preteen, must make sense of herself and the glacial entropy around her.

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CHARCOAL JOE by Walter Mosley (Doubleday)

It’s never easy being Easy Rawlins, especially when his main squeeze, Bonnie, cuts and runs just when he’s ready to pop the question. Next thing he knows, murder and intrigue are afoot, and we’re cruising the City of Angels in ’68, chock-full of degenerates, a few backsliding do-gooders, and everything in between. This is the 14th installment in Mosley’s celebrated mystery series. We say keep ’em coming.

The Hospital Always Wins by Issa Ibrahim (Lawrence Hill Books)

Madness led Ibrahim to believe his mother was possessed and then kill her during an exorcism. His subsequent 20-year struggle to regain his sanity as a patient in a Cuckoo’s Nest–esque asylum roars to a searing, poignant climax.

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by Elizabeth Swados (Feminist Press)

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In this edgy noir from a crime fiction maestro, an ex-con struggles with unexpected freedom, falteringly rebuilding his life while a depraved puppet master still behind bars pulls his strings.

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(G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

The Crow Girl

After his older brother is murdered, the author quits college to run the family drug business. An East Baltimore bildungsroman memoir about hope, hustle, and getting out while you can.

START WITH THE BASICS: bad guys and gals trying to make good. Sprinkle in a detective here and a paranoid schizophrenic there. Set deft fiction side by side with harrowing real-life stories, then fold in heaping helpings of moral complexity. Sweeten with a touch of redemption, and devour.

by Steve Hamilton

The Cook Up by D. Watkins

SINNERS & SAINTS

The Second Life of Nick Mason

Following a lengthy prison term, Carleen lands a job as a dog walker in Manhattan, hoping to reconnect with her estranged daughter. Brilliant and layered, Swados’s posthumous novel asks searching questions about the delicate nature of atonement.

by Erik Axl Sund

What is it about Sweden that produces such deliciously, darkly off-kilter thrillers, featuring idiosyncratic, complex characters such as Lisbeth Salander (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and now Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg? As Kihlberg investigates a killer who targets immigrant children, she must deal with xenophobia, extreme right-wing politics, and other hot-button issues that only deepen our morbid fascination.

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Wing Walking in California

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Three years ago, right when I thought my boyfriend and I would get engaged, we broke up instead. I had one month of absolute, crushing grief. Then I remembered the list. Back in 2008, I’d started making a list of everything I wanted to do before I settled down: ride through Bangkok on the back of a motorcycle, scuba dive the Great Blue Hole, trek through the Amazon, swim with sharks. My boyfriend hadn’t been able to find the time, but now that he was out of the picture, there was no stopping me. I first saw wing walking on a travel show; I had gone skydiving before, but this looked infinitely cooler. I wore a rock-climbing harness, which was attached to the plane with a steel cable. In the air, the wind resistance was so fierce that it took all my strength just to climb out of my seat, and every inch of my skin was flapping. When the pilot started doing flips, it felt like zero gravity, an out-of-body experience. But I wasn’t scared. I just kept thinking, I’m getting to do what I want. Now nothing seems very intimidating anymore. As for my ex, there are no hard feelings— our breakup put me right where I needed to be. J U LY 2 0 1 6

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Spicy Peanut Shirataki Noodles MAKES 4 servings TOTAL TIME: 20 minutes

Grain With these toss-and-go salads, you’ve got a meal in minutes— no sweat.

2. In a small bowl, whisk together oil, lemon juice, salt, garlic, and sumac; set aside. 3. In a large bowl, mix tomatoes, cucumber, chickpeas, parsley, mint, and scallion. Add pita and toss with reserved dressing. Let sit 15 to 30 minutes, transfer to a platter, and serve.

Middle Eastern Bread Salad

Kale Pesto Bulgur Salad

A classic Italian panzanella—tomato and ciabatta tossed with olive oil and vinegar—is a summer staple. To mix things up a little, try new combinations of breads and dressings, starting with this refreshing Lebanese version from Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez of the bakery Hot Bread Kitchen. To try her Tex-Mex, Indian, and Mediterranean variations, go to oprah.com/breadsalads.

Bulgur, the irresistibly nutty, versatile grain, is a busy cook’s dream—just soak overnight and it’s ready to go. With fresh veggies and crunchy almonds, this recipe from Naturally Ella blogger Erin Alderson is ultrahealthy and utterly tasty.

MAKES 4 to 6 servings ACTIVE TIME: 25 minutes TOTAL TIME: 40 minutes

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(6") pocketless (Greek) pitas cup extra-virgin olive oil Tbsp. lemon juice (from 1 lemon) tsp. kosher salt small garlic clove, minced tsp. sumac or lemon zest large tomatoes, cut into ½" dice English cucumber, cut into ½" dice cup cooked or canned chickpeas, rinsed and drained ¼ cup flat-leaf parsley leaves, chopped ¼ cup mint leaves, chopped 1 scallion, thinly sliced

1. Toast pitas until golden (cut in half if needed to fit in toaster). When cool enough to handle, tear pitas into bite-size pieces and set aside.

MAKES 4 to 6 servings TOTAL TIME: 20 minutes, plus soaking overnight

SALAD: 1½ cups bulgur

½ tsp. kosher salt, plus more to taste 1 pint grape tomatoes, halved ½ pound green beans, trimmed and cut into bite-size pieces ¼ cup sliced almonds, toasted, plus more for garnish PESTO: 1 garlic clove

1 cup stemmed and thinly sliced lacinato kale (from about ½ bunch) ½ cup packed basil leaves ¼ cup packed flat-leaf parsley 3 Tbsp. sliced almonds ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil ¼ cup lemon juice (from about 2 lemons) ½ tsp. kosher salt ¼ tsp. ground black pepper J U LY 2 0 1 6

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No-cook noodles with fewer than 20 calories per serving—sound impossible? Meet shirataki: springy, al dente delights made from Japanese white yams. (You’ll typically find them next to the tofu in your grocery store.) Shirataki have a very mild flavor, so J. Kenji López-Alt, author of The Food Lab, tosses them in a creamy, Southeast Asian– inspired sauce that packs a fiery punch. 2⁄3 cup chunky natural peanut butter 2 Tbsp. soy sauce 2 Tbsp. lime juice (from 1 lime) or rice wine vinegar 1 Tbsp. sugar or honey 2 to 3 tsp. Asian chili sauce, such as sambal oelek or sriracha 2 tsp. toasted sesame oil 1 small garlic clove, finely grated 2 (8-ounce) packages shirataki noodles, rinsed, drained, and patted dry with paper towels 1 cup loosely packed mix of basil, mint, and cilantro leaves 1 cup mung bean sprouts 4 scallions, sliced into strips 1 jalapeño, seeded and thinly sliced 1 large red bell pepper, cored and sliced into strips ½ large English cucumber, cut into half-moons 1 or 2 red Thai bird chilies, minced (optional) ½ cup roughly chopped roasted peanuts In a large bowl, whisk together peanut butter, soy sauce, lime juice, 2 Tbsp. warm water, sugar, chili sauce, oil, and garlic until well combined. Add noodles and toss gently to coat. Add herbs, sprouts, scallions, jalapeño, bell pepper, cucumber, and chilies (if using) and toss gently to combine. Transfer to a platter, scatter peanuts over top, and serve.

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CANTALOUPE + FETA + BASIL

Cantaloupe, Feta, Basil, and Pepita Salad

MAKES 4 servings TOTAL TIME: 10 minutes Ghayour loves the contrast of crunchy pepitas and tangy feta with honey-sweet melon.

If you live on tomato-mozzarella and melon-feta salads all season, here are a few new riffs that recombine these favorite summer flavors— courtesy of Danielle Walker, author of Against All Grain; Sabrina Ghayour, author of Sirocco; and chef Bryan Calvert, author of Brooklyn Rustic.

Thinly slice 1 large cantaloupe, seeded and rind removed. Arrange cantaloupe on a large platter, crumble 5 ounces feta over top, then drizzle with a little extra-virgin olive oil. Sprinkle with 1 tsp. Aleppo pepper (or a mix of sweet paprika and cayenne) and ½ cup roasted salted pepitas. Scatter a handful of Greek basil leaves (or 2 Italian ones, thinly sliced) on top.

TOMATO + MOZZARELLA + BASIL

Hasselback Tomato with Avocado, Mozzarella, and Pesto

MAKES 4 servings TOTAL TIME: 20 minutes Walker reimagines the Hasselback potato— a buttery baked spud sliced accordion-style— using the ingredients of a tomato salad.

Thinly slice 4 large Roma or plum tomatoes crosswise, being careful not to cut all the way through to the bottom, to create 5 or 6 pockets. Halve 1 (8-ounce) ball fresh mozzarella lengthwise and thinly slice it. Peel, pit, and thinly slice 1 avocado. Arrange tomatoes on a serving platter, then fill each pocket with a slice of mozzarella and a slice of avocado. Sprinkle with ½ tsp. kosher salt and ¼ tsp. ground black pepper. Spoon 1 Tbsp. prepared pesto over each.

CANTALOUPE + MOZZARELLA + BASIL

Prosciutto and Cantaloupe Salad

MAKES 4 servings TOTAL TIME: 20 minutes Melon and prosciutto are the ideal balance of sweet and salty, and Walker tosses in mozzarella for a bit of silky richness.

In a large bowl, mix together 2 cups (1") cantaloupe melon balls; 1 (8-ounce) tub pearlsize fresh mozzarella (or a ball cut into ½" pieces); 4 ounces thinly sliced prosciutto, cut into 1"-wide strips; ¼ cup chopped mint leaves; ¼ cup chopped basil leaves; 1 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil; 2 tsp. white balsamic vinegar; ½ tsp. kosher salt; and ¼ tsp. ground black pepper.

TOMATOES + FETA

Heirloom Tomatoes with Gin, Feta, and Dill

MAKES 4 to 6 servings ACTIVE TIME: 10 minutes TOTAL TIME: 40 minutes The juniper scent of the gin adds depth and brings out the tomatoes’ flavor, says Calvert.

Core 2 pounds heirloom tomatoes and slice into ¼"-thick rounds. Season both sides with ¼ tsp. fine sea salt and a few grinds of black pepper. Layer tomatoes in a large bowl, drizzling between the layers 2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil; 2 tsp. gin; ¼ cup loosely packed, coarsely chopped dill; and 1 large shallot, finely chopped (about 2 Tbsp.). Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature for 30 minutes, gently tossing after 15 minutes. Transfer to a large serving platter, sprinkling 4 ounces sheep’s-milk feta, crumbled, between the layers. Whisk remaining liquid from mixing bowl and pour it over top. Serve at room temperature. MOZZARELLA + BASIL

Watermelon and Peach Caprese

MAKES 4 servings TOTAL TIME: 30 minutes Fruit, cheese, and balsamic go together any way you stack ’em, says Walker.

Cut 1 small seedless watermelon into ½"-thick slices. Using a round cookie cutter, cut out 12 (3") circles of watermelon and transfer to a plate. Slice 2 ripe large yellow peaches into 8 thin rounds. Thinly slice 1 (8-ounce) ball fresh mozzarella. On each of 4 serving plates, arrange a slice of watermelon and top with a slice of peach, a slice of mozzarella, and a basil leaf. Repeat to make a tall stack, then add 1 more watermelon slice on top. Drizzle each stack with 1½ tsp. extra-virgin olive oil and 1 tsp. balsamic vinegar. Sprinkle each with 1⁄8 tsp. kosher salt and a grind of black pepper, then garnish with more basil.

Sandwich Imagine a great meal, chock-full of flavor and textures that make every bite amazing— then put the whole thing in a sandwich. That’s how Tyler Kord, chef and co-owner of New York City’s No. 7 sub shops and author of the new cookbook A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches, comes up with his unconventional creations. The pork, spicy mustard, and wontons of Chinese takeout are reimagined as a ham sandwich with major crunch. Turkey plus a jammy sauce? That’s a combo too good to save for Thanksgiving. Here, Kord shares five recipes that could be the best things since sliced bread.

Broccoli Puree

MAKES ¾ cup TOTAL TIME: 5 minutes In a blender, combine 1 cup frozen broccoli florets, defrosted; 1 Tbsp. olive oil; ¾ tsp. kosher salt; and 2 Tbsp. water. Puree until relatively smooth, stopping periodically to scrape down sides. You’ll have a few lumps, but don’t worry—they’ll add texture!

Cucumber Salad

MAKES ½ cup ACTIVE TIME: 5 minutes TOTAL TIME: 15 minutes In a medium bowl, mix 1⁄3 cucumber, cut into thin half-moons; 1 Tbsp. thinly sliced red onion; 2 tsp. distilled white vinegar; 1 tsp. extra-virgin olive oil; ½ tsp. fish sauce (optional); ¼ tsp. minced garlic; and ¼ tsp. salt. Let marinate at least 10 minutes. Salad will keep, covered, up to 3 days in refrigerator.

NEW CHIPS ON THE BLOCK

Unique flavors to savor with your out-of-the-ordinary sandwich. SPICY Late July Buffalo Queso Chips

MULTIGRAIN The Better Chip Radish Chia

VEGGIE Terra Chips Pickled Beets

Like nacho-cheese chips on steroids, these evoke classic sports bar wings, with a bit of heat to keep you cheering. ($3.50; latejuly.com)

Chia seeds add extra texture; the garlic and radish flavors are subtle yet completely addictive. ($4; thebetterchip .com for stores)

Elegant crisps with a salt-and-vinegaresque appeal, plus the earthy sweetness of beets. ($5.50; terrachips.com for stores)

Rotisserie Chicken Cordon Bleu Slice open a hunk of crusty French bread and toast. Spread one side with 3 Tbsp. Broccoli Puree (see recipe, above). On the other side, layer 1 slice Swiss cheese; 2 slices ham; and ½ cup warm rotisserie chicken, torn into bitesize pieces. Sprinkle with 1½ tsp. seasoned bread crumbs. Close sandwich with broccolicovered side on top.

Vietnamese PB&J

Lay out 2 slices white sandwich bread. Spread 2 Tbsp. chunky peanut butter on one slice and 1 Tbsp. mint jelly on the other (or use your own preferred ratio of peanut butter to jelly). Top one side with ¼ cup Cucumber Salad (see recipe, above) and save the rest of the salad for a second sandwich. Because you will definitely want another.

Carrot-Ginger Dressing

MAKES ½ cup TOTAL TIME: 5 minutes In a food processor fitted with a metal blade, combine 1 small carrot, peeled and chopped (about ½ cup); ½" piece of ginger, peeled and thinly sliced; ¼ small red onion, chopped; 2 Tbsp. distilled white vinegar; 2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil; 1 tsp. maple syrup; and 1 tsp. kosher salt. Puree until smooth, scraping down sides a few times.

Avocado-Ricotta Spread

MAKES 1¼ cups TOTAL TIME: 5 minutes In a small food processor fitted with a metal blade, combine 1 avocado, cut into pieces; 3 Tbsp. ricotta; ¼ tsp. kosher salt; and 2 tsp. lemon juice (from ½ lemon) and puree until smooth.

Salami with Sauerkraut, Chinese Mustard, and Wonton Chips

Lay out 2 slices marble rye. Spread 1 tsp. Chinese mustard (or a little more if you really like mustard) on 1 slice. Top with ¼ pound Genoa salami or mortadella; 2 Tbsp. sauerkraut, drained; and a small handful of wonton chips.

Brie with Fried Onions and Carrot-Ginger Dressing

Lay out 2 slices whole grain bread. On 1 slice, arrange 2 to 3 ounces Brie, sliced. Spoon on 2 Tbsp. Carrot-Ginger Dressing (see recipe, above). Top with ¼ cup loosely packed cilantro leaves and 1 Tbsp. French fried onions.

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Smoked Turkey with Avocado-Ricotta Spread and Blueberry Jam

Open 1 sesame seed hamburger bun. Spread 2 Tbsp. Avocado-Ricotta Spread (see recipe, above) on the top and 1 Tbsp. blueberry jam on the bottom. On the jam side, arrange ¼ pound smoked turkey, sliced, and thin slices of red onion to taste. Finish with a couple twists of a pepper mill.

Here’s Life’s too short for sad platters of carrot and celery sticks. Add diversity with these creative crudités from Kristin Donnelly, author of Modern Potluck. Her zesty dip will even win over the kids—just tell them it’s like hummus, but better.

Miso–White Bean Dip MAKES 2¼ cups TOTAL TIME: 10 minutes

In a food processor fitted with a metal blade, combine 2 (15-ounce) cans cannellini beans, rinsed and drained, and 1 small garlic clove. Pulse until finely chopped. Add ¼ cup plus 2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil, 2 Tbsp. lemon juice (from 1 lemon), 2 Tbsp. water, 1 Tbsp. plus 1 tsp. miso, and ¼ tsp. kosher salt and puree until smooth. Transfer to a serving bowl, then drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with smoked paprika.

SAVE THE GREENS

Leave the tops on radishes and carrots: They’re tasty—and make convenient handles when dunking. (Just make sure to wash them well.)

GET COLORFUL

Rainbow carrots can be white, yellow, red, or purple—and they have more sweet carroty flavor than the bagged baby variety.

GO SPOONING

Thicker dips demand a sturdier vegetable with a concave shape. Baby bell peppers, halved and seeded, are the perfect two-bite scooper.

MAKE IT MINI

Buy Persian cucumbers, which are just four to six inches long and don’t need to be peeled or seeded. Quarter them lengthwise to create spears made for dipping.

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MAKE A QUICK GETAWAY

Between prepping food, packing supplies, and schlepping it all, the supposedly carefree picnic can feel like a lot of work. But thanks to alfresco artists Marnie Hanel, Jen Stevenson, and Andrea Slonecker, authors of The Picnic: Recipes and Inspiration from Basket to Blanket, yours can be a walk in the park.

GROCERY GOURMET

Keep a roomy tote or basket stocked with picnic essentials— plates and cutlery, napkins, salt and pepper, and a bottle opener, plus sunscreen, bug spray, hand sanitizer, wet wipes, and a trash bag for cleanup—and you’ll always be ready to go. To take your outing to the next level, try these nifty accessories:

Make the meal feel special without cooking a thing: Just pick a theme when you hit the supermarket and stick to it. These three fun menus let you get a little fancy—not fussy.

French Épicerie Baguette (buy one for every four people); Camembert (two ounces per person); sliced salami and prosciutto (at the deli get three slices—about an ounce—of each meat per person); olives and cornichons; fresh fruit like grapes, cherries, plums, or strawberries (slices of Camembert and strawberry on a baguette make a decadent sandwich); and a chocolate bar or two. Mediterranean Market A dozen dolmades—grape leaves stuffed with mint, herbs, and rice (find them at the olive bar or look for the jarred kind packed in olive oil); spreads like hummus, pesto, baba ghanoush, or olive tapenade (in the pickle aisle); tabbouleh (in the bulk deli salad case or near the hummus); pita bread; and wedges of baklava (check the bakery).

WATER-RESISTANT BLANKET

Hanel and friends swear by the Pendleton Glacier Roll-Up Blanket ($299; pendleton-usa.com), a deluxe model with a snap-off, waxed-cotton bottom. To weatherproof any blanket in a pinch, bring a few yoga mats to place underneath. Spacewise, plan for nine square feet per picnicker.

CUTTING BOARDS

Farm Stand Artisanal cheeses (choose one cow’s milk, one sheep’s, and one goat’s for variety; two ounces of each per person is plenty), crackers, honeycomb or honey (chunks of honeycomb are great for spreading on cheese and crackers, or you can drizzle honey over a cheese wedge), hazelnuts, easy-to-eat produce like sugar snap peas and cherry tomatoes, and fresh pastries.

A few small ones can do triple duty as cheese and charcuterie boards, slicing surfaces for bread, and reliable resting spots for drinks.

KNIFE WITH GUARD

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

Stevenson often heads to the park a half hour early to scope out a spot with the prettiest grass and the best view, situated an ideal distance from a bathroom (“close enough, but not too close”). Consult a park map online to narrow down your options, and steer clear of areas with bloom-heavy plants that attract bees. Once you’ve staked your claim, invite your fellow feasters: Use a map app to send a dropped pin via text message to guide them to your spot.

The sheath protects the blade and makes it safe to carry in your bag. Use the knife—the authors’ favorites are Kuhn Rikon (from $10; surlatable .com)—for slicing bread and cheese, sharing fruit, and cutting pies or cakes.

FIT TO A

A few of our favorite brand-new brews. Fruity Pure Leaf TeaHouse Collection Fuji Apple & Ginger Green Tea Slightly sweet, with fresh apple and ginger notes. ($2.50 for 14-ounce bottle; pureleaf.com for stores)

Fizzy Lipton Sparkling Peach Iced Tea A bubbly beverage that will charm even die-hard soda fans. ($1.50 for 12-ounce can; Kroger stores) OPRAH.COM

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Tropical The Republic of Tea Organic Mango Coconut Water Iced Tea Pouches These large bags yield quart-size pitchers with a coconut water base. ($8 for eight-pouch tin; republicoftea.com)

I’M GOING TO A BARBECUE. Yes

Are you handy in the kitchen?

Are you thinking sweet or savory?

If a kid can do it, so can I.

Savory

I store shoes in my oven. Bring lemon meringue s’mores fixings.

How much time do you have? Ten minutes. Give spiced fruit dip a whirl.

In a medium bowl, use a hand mixer to beat together 1 (16-ounce) box confectioners’ sugar and 2 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, softened. Add 2 tsp. Angostura bitters and mix to combine. Serve with strawberries, pineapple, kiwi, or other fruit cut into pieces for dipping.

The party’s tomorrow.

Go nuts with your guacamole. For every avocado, mix in ¼ cup chopped, toasted pistachios.

Something store-bought, then. Is the host making burgers? Make a chocolate icebox cheesecake. In a medium bowl, use a hand mixer to beat together 2 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, at room temperature, and 2/3 cup chocolate syrup. Spread into a 9" ready-made chocolate piecrust and refrigerate overnight. Garnish with shaved chocolate.

Yes

Buy lemon curd, marshmallows, and shortbread cookies. To make, spread lemon curd on a cookie, add a toasted marshmallow, and top with another cookie.

Buy upgraded toppings and condiments.

Some options: Pernicious Pickling Co.’s sweet-sour Pickled Red Onions ($10; perniciouspickling.com), Mustard and Co.’s delightfully spicy Honey Curry Mustard ($7; mustardandco.com), and Sir Kensington’s smoky vegan Chipotle Fabanaise ($6; sirkensingtons.com for stores). J U LY 2 0 1 6

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Pick up some fun drinks!

Try Seagram’s Hard Soda, a cross between a soft drink and a wine cooler ($14 for 12-pack; seagramshardsoda.com).

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How clueless are you?

Lazy If homemade ice cream sounds appealing but too ambitious, you’re in luck: With this dead-simple three-ingredient method from Stef Ferrari, author of Ice Cream Adventures, you can create the soft-serve of your childhood—no ice cream maker required.

Sweet Cream Softer-Serve MAKES 1½ quarts TOTAL TIME: 5 minutes, plus freezing overnight In a large bowl, gently fold together 12 ounces whipped topping, 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk, and ¾ cup heavy cream, taking care not to deflate the air from the whipped topping. Once well integrated, store in an airtight container and freeze overnight.

CHERRY ON TOP

For Ferrari, there’s no substitute for Italian Luxardo maraschino cherries. The savvy bartender’s staple—which bears practically no relation to the neon-bright, almond-flavored kind you’d find in a Shirley Temple—has a deep red color and a rich sweet-tart flavor. Bonus: The syrup is just as delicious. Drizzle it on ice cream or mix it in a cocktail. ($20 for 12.7-ounce jar; williams-sonoma.com)

Bourbon Ganache MAKES 1¼ cups TOTAL TIME: 5 minutes In a medium glass bowl, combine ½ cup very finely chopped chocolate and ¾ cup heavy cream. Microwave on high for 30 seconds, then stir to combine. Repeat until chocolate is melted. Add 1½ Tbsp. bourbon (or other spirit of your choice; optional) and stir until mixture is smooth and creamy. Allow to cool completely and store, refrigerated, in an airtight container.

Honeyed Peanut Butter Sauce MAKES 2½ cups TOTAL TIME: 5 minutes In a medium glass bowl, place 1 cup smooth peanut butter and 1 cup honey. Microwave on high for 30 seconds, then stir to combine. Repeat two more times until smooth. Pour in ½ cup heavy cream and stir to combine. Allow to cool completely and store, refrigerated, in an airtight container.

Sea-Salted Whip MAKES 2 cups TOTAL TIME: 5 minutes Using a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, combine 1 cup cold heavy cream, 3 Tbsp. turbinado sugar, and ¾ tsp. flaked sea salt. Beat mixture until stiff peaks form, 2 to 4 minutes. Serve immediately.

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On languid, lazy summer days and nights, who wants to fuss over a beauty routine? We’ve got 20 tricks to increase your gorgeousness quotient fast. PHOTOGRAPHS BY

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The hands-down prettiest lacquer for the new elongated oval nail shape: a neutral, like OPI Infinite Shine Lacquer in No Stopping Zone. The flattering shade goes with everything, and chips are hardly noticeable, which means more style, less maintenance.

For instant polish, define your brows with a pencil (like Benefit Goof Proof Brow Pencil) the same color as the lightest tone in your hair, filling in sparse areas with short strokes.

Quickly add a dash of nighttime drama: After your last eye makeup step, trace your top and bottom waterline with a nude pencil (such as Urban Decay 24/7 Waterline Eye Pencil in Walk of Shame)—it’ll make the whites of your eyes appear brighter. Then use a flat brush dipped in brown gel liner to lightly outline your lower lashes.

The new moisturizing matte lipsticks (try Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick) are the surest route to chic, even if you’re not wearing any other makeup. And the formulas are so creamy and light, you can apply the deepest shades without a mirror.

Find your most natural-looking pink effortlessly with a superhydrating lip balm, like 3Lab Healthy Glow Lip Balm, or one containing pigments that react to your skin’s pH, giving you a custom shade. Try Clarins Daily Energizer Lovely Lip Balm (front).

Lighten up! Swap your usual foundation for a sheer formula that does double duty: Clinique Super City Block BB Cushion Compact provides just enough coverage and contains ultraprotective broad-spectrum SPF 50.

For a quick touch of glitz, pump up your mascara game with gold: After one coat of blackest black, apply the gold starting midway from the root of the lashes and rolling the brush to the tip. (We like YSL Mascara Vinyl Couture in I’m the Clash and I’m the Fire.)

MASTER CLASS

Makeup Artist Sonia Kashuk’s Five-Minute, Five-Step Routine Then I apply a dab of my Crème Blush to the apples of my cheeks for a subtle flush.

I groom my brows quickly with my Tinted Brow Gel to fill in sparseness and keep hairs in place.

After that I line my eyes with my Longwear Eye Definer in Dark Chocolate, applying it close to the upper lashline.

WANT TO MAKE A BOLDER LIP STATEMENT WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR COMFORT ZONE? SWITCH TO A VIVID ROSE, LIKE THE ONE IN L’ORÉAL PARIS COLOUR RICHE LA PALETTE LIP IN PINK.

You can skip the separate lotions for your neck, chest, and hands if you get one luscious cream. Look for hyaluronic acid or glycerin near the top of the ingredients list (try Sephora Collection Whipped Cream Body Moisturizer).

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I finish with my Satin Luxe Lip Color in Roseberry, a flattering neutral. That’s it!

Don’t worry about washing your face in the a.m. Just give yourself a few splashes of tepid water; if your face feels oily, try an alcohol-free toner (like Perricone MD Pre:Empt Series Exfoliating Pore Refiner) to create a fresh canvas for your serum or moisturizer.

Instead of sudsing up with soap in the shower—which can strip the skin of natural oils and proteins, leaving it tight and parched—try a hydrating body wash, such as Dove Dry Oil Moisture Body Wash, to restore lipids.

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I start with my tinted moisturizer (Radiant+ Tinted Moisturizer SPF 15) to even out skin tone.

The ultimate smart, no-fuss haircut: a shoulder-grazing bob. It’s short enough to style quickly, but long enough to pull back into an elegant low ponytail when you’re short on time.

19 Two minutes to a cute, casual hairstyle: After making a deep side part, grab a one-inch piece of hair from the front, closest to the part, twisting it away from your face toward the opposite temple. Secure it with a bobby pin placed at a diagonal (try Sephora Collection Quick Fix: Bobby Pins in Pastel Pin Ups).

Style your hair as you sleep: Before bed, apply antifrizz cream on damp hair. Divide it into braids (six for thinner hair, two for thicker), making sure to secure each one as close to the tip as possible to avoid dents and creases. In the morning, undo the braids and break them up with a wide-tooth comb or a quick shot of cool air from your blow-dryer.

Keep your color looking fresh with a shampoo and conditioner with UV protection (try Rita Hazan True Color Shampoo and Conditioner). Check the label for the terms parabenfree, sulfate-free, or hydrating, which mean the formula will help prevent fading and repair damage caused by dyes. Once a week, use an at-home gloss, such as John Frieda Colour Refreshing Gloss.

When you start to notice regrowth, temporarily camouflage it with a root cover-up, like Temptu Airbrush 24-Hour Root Touch-Up & Hair Color. Bonus: You can also use it to make your brows look fuller. Just spray the pigmented formula onto a spoolie brush and draw it through.

Shorten your blowdrying routine with two ingenious products: A blow-dry primer, like Redken Pillow Proof Blow Dry Express Treatment Primer, also provides heat protection; a dryer with a brushless motor, like the Varis Dryer, produces faster airflow to reduce drying time (and heat damage).

Get more mileage out of your blow-out by using dry shampoo (like Dove Refresh + Care Detox & Purify Dry Shampoo). Here’s how: Separate hair into one- to two-inch sections and spray only at the roots, holding the can six to eight inches from the scalp. Allow the powder to sit for two to three minutes, then quickly blow-dry to loosen the shampoo particles.

18 While you’re frolicking on the beach, give your hair a conditioning mask, such as Kérastase Nutritive Masque Magistral. Work a quarter-size dollop through your hair from roots to ends, then pull it back into a bun or a braid.

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A trio of fabulous, simpleenough-fora-Wednesday dishes using three staples: yellow squash, goat cheese, and basil. RECIPES BY Marcia Kiesel

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Let's Eat!

Run out of yellow squash but have a bushel of zucchini? Not a problem. They belong to the same family, so go ahead and substitute one for the other in any recipe.

Ranch Chicken Salad with Grilled Squash and Corn

MAKES 4 SERVINGS TOTAL TIME: 35 MINUTES

½ cup extra-virgin olive oil, divided 2½ tsp. finely grated lime zest (from about 2 limes) ¼ cup lime juice 1¼ tsp. kosher salt, divided 4 (8-ounce) yellow squash, cut lengthwise into 4 (½"-thick) slices ½ tsp. ground black pepper 1 (6-pound) seedless watermelon, peeled and cut into 12 (6" x 2") slices 1 jalapeño, seeded and thinly sliced 4 ounces fresh goat cheese (about ¾ cup), crumbled ½ cup chopped pistachios ½ cup basil leaves 1. Preheat grill to high. In a medium bowl, whisk together 6 Tbsp. oil, lime zest and juice, and ¾ tsp. salt; set dressing aside. 2. Brush squash slices with remaining 2 Tbsp. oil and season with remaining ½ tsp. salt and pepper. Grill until nicely charred, about 2 minutes per side. 3. On each of 4 plates, arrange by alternating 4 grilled squash slices with 3 watermelon slices. Scatter jalapeño on top. Drizzle each plate with a few spoonfuls of reserved dressing, sprinkle 3 Tbsp. goat cheese and 2 Tbsp. each pistachios and basil on top, and serve.

4 ounces fresh goat cheese (about ¾ cup), softened 1/3 2 ½ 1 2 2 4 ¼ 4 4 1 4

cup buttermilk Tbsp. chopped white onion cup chopped basil leaves small garlic clove, chopped tsp. kosher salt, divided tsp. ground black pepper, divided (6-ounce) boneless, skinless chicken breasts cup olive oil, divided (6-ounce) yellow squash, halved lengthwise ears of corn, shucked (10-ounce) head red leaf lettuce, torn into bite-size pieces radishes, thinly sliced

1. Preheat grill to medium. In a food processor fitted with a metal blade, combine goat cheese, buttermilk, onion, basil, garlic, and ½ tsp. each salt and pepper. Puree until smooth. Transfer to a medium bowl and set aside. 2. Brush each chicken breast with 1 tsp. oil and season each with ¼ tsp. salt and ¼ tsp. pepper. Brush each squash half with ½ tsp. oil and sprinkle with a pinch each of salt and pepper. Brush each ear of corn with 1 tsp. oil. Grill chicken, squash, and corn until charred all over, about 3 minutes per side for chicken and squash and 8 minutes total for corn. 3. Cut squash into 2" pieces and chicken into 1"-thick slices. Cut kernels from cobs. In a large bowl, toss lettuce, squash, and corn with ½ cup reserved dressing. Divide among 4 plates. Place chicken on top, scatter radishes over dish, and serve, passing extra dressing at the table.

Smoky Gazpacho MAKES 4 SERVINGS ACTIVE TIME: 30 MINUTES TOTAL TIME: 45 MINUTES

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Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil, divided pound yellow squash, cut into ½" cubes tsp. kosher salt, divided cups tomato juice large tomatoes (about 1 pound), halved, seeded, and chopped red bell pepper, seeded and chopped cup peeled, seeded, and chopped cucumber (from ½ cucumber) cup chopped red onion large chipotle chili in adobo, seeded and chopped, plus 2 Tbsp. adobo sauce Tbsp. red wine vinegar tsp. ground cumin ounces fresh goat cheese (about ¾ cup), crumbled cup chopped basil leaves

1. In a large skillet, heat 1 Tbsp. olive oil over medium-high heat. Add squash, season with ¼ tsp. salt, and cook, stirring a few times, until browned, about 3 minutes. Transfer half the squash to a food processor fitted with a metal blade. Add tomato juice, tomatoes, bell pepper, cucumber, onion, chipotle and adobo sauce, vinegar, cumin, and remaining 1 tsp. salt and puree until smooth. Refrigerate until chilled, about 15 minutes. 2. Ladle soup into 4 shallow bowls. Top each with equal amounts of sautéed squash, 3 Tbsp. goat cheese, and 2 Tbsp. basil. Drizzle each with 1 Tbsp. oil and serve.

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In a large skillet, heat 1 Tbsp. olive oil over medium-high heat. Add ½ pound finely chopped cremini or white button mushrooms and cook until golden brown, 5 to 7 minutes. Allow mushrooms to cool, then combine with 1 pound ground beef and ½ tsp. salt. Shape into 4 patties. In the same skillet, heat an additional 1 Tbsp. olive oil over medium-high heat. Add patties and cook, flipping halfway through, about 4 minutes per side for medium rare. Place on hamburger buns, top as desired, and serve immediately.

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Whatever you throw on the grill—red peppers, shrimp, avocado—chef Curtis Stone has a super-versatile sauce that will make it sizzle.

Grilled Halloumi with Marinated Red Peppers MAKES 4 SERVINGS ACTIVE TIME: 25 MINUTES

3 red bell peppers 1 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil, divided 1/8 tsp. kosher salt Caper-Lemon Vinaigrette (see recipe, page 119) 8 ounces halloumi cheese, cut into 1/3"-thick slices ¼ cup sliced almonds, toasted ¼ cup mint leaves

1. Preheat grill to high. Coat peppers with 1 tsp. oil and sprinkle with salt. Grill, turning as needed, until charred all over, 15 to 20 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and cover. When

cool enough to handle, cut peppers in half and remove and discard seeds. Using a knife, scrape away charred skin. Cut peppers into thick slices and place in a medium bowl. Pour Caper-Lemon Vinaigrette over top and toss to coat; set aside. 2. Brush cheese slices with remaining 2 tsp. oil. Grill cheese until grill marks form, about 1 minute per side. Transfer cheese to a platter along with reserved marinated peppers. Scatter almonds and mint on top and serve immediately.

FOOD STYLIST: REBECCA JURKEVICH. PROP STYLIST: AMY WILSON.

GOOD FOOD doesn’t need to be complicated. Grilling is a cinch, and, fortunately, so is my favorite goeswith-everything sauce. It takes just five ingredients you can find at any supermarket: capers, parsley, shallots, lemon, and olive oil. (I add the brine from the capers, too. Why let that vinegary essence go to waste?) This simple sauce is a warm-weather staple for me since it gives a bright herbal boost to almost any meat or veggie. All I have to do is fire up the grill. One thing I love to toss on the grates is halloumi, a deliciously salty and mild Greek cheese that holds up well to heat; it’s the perfect pairing for marinated roasted red peppers. I also love to spoon the sauce over shrimp skewers studded with chunks of ciabatta that soak up all the flavorful juices. And a drizzle of it makes a zesty finish for a platter of couscous topped with grilled tomatoes, eggplant, green beans, and avocado, which softens nicely and takes on a tasty charred finish. Feast on any of these easy, satisfying dishes, and I think you’ll agree that simplicity is bliss.

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YOU’RE READY FOR A NIGHT OUT, BUT DIARRHEA AND ABDOMINAL PAIN HAVE OTHER PLANS. If you’re living with these frustrating symptoms, you may have Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Diarrhea (IBS-D). VIBERZI MAY HELP.

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IMPORTANT RISK INFORMATION VIBERZI can cause serious side effects, including: • A spasm in a muscle of the digestive system (called the sphincter of Oddi), which may cause new or worsening abdominal pain. Your risk of having a spasm is increased if you do not have a gallbladder. This spasm usually happens within the ﬁrst week of treatment and usually goes away when treatment is stopped. • Inﬂammation of the pancreas (called pancreatitis). Symptoms of pancreatitis usually go away when treatment with VIBERZI is stopped. Your risk of getting pancreatitis is increased if you drink more than 3 alcoholic drinks a day. Stop taking VIBERZI and call your doctor if you have new or worsening stomach-area (abdomen) pain or pain in the upper right side of your stomach-area that may move to your back or shoulder, with or without nausea and vomiting. Do not take VIBERZI if you: • Have or may have had a blockage in your gallbladder or a sphincter of Oddi problem • Have or had problems with alcohol abuse, alcohol addiction, or drink more than 3 alcoholic drinks a day • Have had pancreatitis or other pancreas problems, including if you have had or may have had a blockage in your pancreas

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• Have severe liver problems • Have had long-lasting (chronic) or severe constipation, or problems caused by constipation • Have or may have had a bowel blockage (intestinal obstruction) Before taking VIBERZI, tell your doctor about all of your medical conditions, including if you do not have a gallbladder, have liver problems, or are nursing, pregnant, or plan to become pregnant. Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. If you are taking VIBERZI you should not take medicines that cause constipation, including: Lotronex® (alosetron), anticholinergic medicines, and opioid pain medicines. Side effects The most common side effects of VIBERZI include constipation, nausea, and abdominal pain. Stop taking VIBERZI and call your doctor if you have constipation that lasts more than 4 days. These are not all the possible side effects of VIBERZI. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.FDA.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088. Please see Brief Summary of Medication Guide on the next page.

Brief Summary of the Medication Guide VIBERZI (vye BER zee), CIV (eluxadoline) tablets This information does not take the place of talking with your doctor about your medical condition or your treatment.

What is VIBERZI? VIBERZI is a prescription medicine used to treat adults who have irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea (IBS-D). • VIBERZI is a controlled substance (CIV) because it contains eluxadoline that can be a target for people who abuse prescription medicines or street drugs. Keep your VIBERZI in a safe place to protect it from theft. Never give your VIBERZI to anyone else, because it may harm them. Selling or giving away this medicine is against the law. It is not known if VIBERZI is safe and effective in children. People 65 years old and older have had an increased number of side effects, including serious side effects and stomach problems, while taking VIBERZI than people younger than 65 years old have had. What is the most important information I should know about VIBERZI? VIBERZI can cause serious side effects, including: • Sphincter of Oddi spasm. A spasm in a muscular valve of the digestive system (called the sphincter of Oddi), which may cause new or worsening stomach area (abdomen) pain. Your risk of having a spasm is increased if you do not have a gallbladder. This spasm usually happens within the first week of treatment with VIBERZI and usually goes away when treatment with VIBERZI is stopped. • Inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis). Symptoms of pancreatitis usually go away when treatment with VIBERZI is stopped. Your risk of getting pancreatitis is increased if you drink more than 3 alcoholic drinks a day. Limit your use of alcoholic drinks while you are taking VIBERZI. Stop taking VIBERZI and call your doctor if you have new or worsening stomach-area (abdomen) pain or pain in the upper right side of your stomach-area (abdomen) that may move to your back or shoulder, with or without nausea and vomiting. Who should not take VIBERZI? Do not take VIBERZI if you: • have or may have had a blockage in your gallbladder or a sphincter of Oddi problem • have or had problems with alcohol abuse, alcohol addiction, or drink more than 3 alcoholic drinks a day • have had inflammation of your pancreas (pancreatitis) or other pancreas problems, including if you have had or may have had a blockage in your pancreas • have severe liver problems • have had long-lasting (chronic) or severe constipation, or problems caused by constipation • have or may have had a bowel blockage (intestinal obstruction) Talk to your doctor if you are not sure if you have any of these conditions.

What should I tell my doctor before taking VIBERZI? Before taking VIBERZI, tell your doctor about all of your medical conditions, including if you: • do not have a gallbladder • have liver problems • are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if VIBERZI will harm your unborn baby. • are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known if VIBERZI passes into your breast milk or could harm your baby. Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Keep a list of your medicines to show your doctor and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. VIBERZI and other medicines may affect each other causing side effects. If you are taking VIBERZI you should not take: • medicines that cause constipation including: o Lotronex® (alosetron) o anticholinergic medicines o opioid pain medicines Ask your doctor or pharmacist for a list of these medicines, if you are not sure. • Avoid taking loperamide, a medicine used to treat diarrhea, for a long time (chronic use). You may take loperamide occasionally to treat severe diarrhea. Stop taking loperamide right away if you become constipated. How should I take VIBERZI? • Take VIBERZI exactly as your doctor tells you to take it. • Take 1 tablet of VIBERZI 2 times each day with food. • If you miss a dose, take your next dose at your regular time. Do not take 2 doses at the same time to make up for a missed dose. • Do not change your dose or stop taking VIBERZI unless your doctor tells you to. • If you take too much VIBERZI, call your doctor or go to the nearest hospital emergency room right away. What should I avoid while taking VIBERZI? • Limit your use of alcoholic drinks while you are taking VIBERZI. • If you have liver problems, do not drive, operate machinery, or do other dangerous activities until you know how VIBERZI affects you. What are the possible side effects of VIBERZI? The most common side effects of VIBERZI include: constipation, nausea, and abdominal pain. Stop taking VIBERZI and call your doctor if you have constipation that lasts more than 4 days. These are not all the possible side effects of VIBERZI. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088. Keep VIBERZI and all medicines out of the reach of children. Need more information? • This section summarizes the most important information about VIBERZI. If you would like more information, talk with your doctor. • Go to www.VIBERZI.com or call 1-800-272-5525 VIBERZITM and its design are trademarks of Furiex Pharmaceuticals, LLC, an Allergan affiliate. Distributed by: Actavis Pharma, Inc. Parsippany, NJ 07054 USA © Actavis 2015. All rights reserved. ELX38198 10/15

Shop Guide Grilled Shrimp Skewers with Caper-Lemon Vinaigrette MAKES 4 SERVINGS TOTAL TIME: 20 MINUTES

PHOTOGRAPH: LINDA XIAO. FOOD STYLIST: REBECCA JURKEVICH. PROP STYLIST: AMY WILSON.

1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved ¼ cup Kalamata olives, pitted and halved Caper-Lemon Vinaigrette (see recipe, right) 1 pound large shrimp, peeled and deveined, tails on 3 slices (about 4 ounces) ciabatta bread, cut into 1" cubes 2 Tbsp. olive oil, divided 1/8 tsp. kosher salt 4 cups loosely packed baby arugula (about 2 ounces)

1. Preheat grill to medium high. In a medium bowl, toss tomatoes and olives with Caper-Lemon Vinaigrette; set aside. 2. Place shrimp and bread in separate large bowls. Into each bowl, pour 1 Tbsp. oil and a pinch of salt; toss to coat. On 8 (10") metal skewers (or bamboo skewers soaked in water for 30 minutes), thread shrimp and bread, alternating each. 3. Grill skewers, flipping halfway through, until bread is lightly charred and shrimp is cooked through, about 3 minutes. 4. Divide arugula among 4 plates. Place 2 skewers on each, spoon tomato-olive mixture over top, and serve.

CAPER-LEMON VINAIGRET TE MAKES 1 CUP TOTAL TIME: 10 MINUTES

In a medium bowl, mix together ¼ cup nonpareil capers plus 1 Tbsp. of their brine, ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil, 3 Tbsp. coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley, 2 Tbsp. finely chopped shallots (from 1 to 2 shallots), zest of 1 lemon, 2 Tbsp. lemon juice (from ½ lemon), ¼ tsp. crushed red pepper flakes, ¼ tsp. kosher salt, and ¼ tsp. ground black pepper. Whisk with a fork to combine.

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NOTHING, NOT ONE THING or activity, can replace the experience of a good read—being transported to a different land, a different realm, through words and language. I just finished an advance copy of Colson Whitehead’s new novel, The Underground Railroad. Every now and then a book comes along that reaches the marrow of your bones, settles in, and stays forever. This is one. It’s a tour de force, and I don’t say that lightly. The dilemma for me, after such a bone-tingling excursion, is where to go from there. Maybe something lighter. Or maybe I’ll take a rest, savoring and contemplating my next journey. I might visit my private library of favorites and page through a classic: The Grapes of Wrath, a first edition perched on a stand in my living room; For Whom the Bell Tolls or The Great White Hope, nestled in a wooden box of treasures on the coffee table. Or my complete collection of Langston Hughes’s poetry and prose. I love being surrounded by books. For me, they’re like art, little pieces of sculpture placed all over the house, reminding me, always, of the power of the written word. Just looking at them brings me the purest kind of joy. This month, in our annual summer reading roundup, we’ve curated lots of options for your own joyful indulgence. Whether you’re on a porch, a beach, a blanket on the lawn, in a hammock or a bed (all my favorite spots for escaping with a book), I hope you treat yourself this summer to the luxury of a good read. I know for sure it will be time well spent.

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