New York Times - International Style

Plus: The woman helping all of us get dressed and thoughts on the other September magazine covers.

With “Coyote vs. Acme,” Ian Frazier, a soft-spoken reporter and humorist, has finally gone Hollywood.Ian Frazier, who has written for The New Yorker since the 1970s, in Montclair, N.J.

Rukhsar Azamee, who came to the United States from Afghanistan, and Thomas Fallon have helped each other laugh through hard times.

After a long, mostly sexless marriage, I thought I was done with passion.

Dave Evans and Frish Brandt, who remarried later in life, still found the freshness of “passing notes in school when we were kids,” as she put it.