Hilary Reid is an inveterate eBay shopper and museumgoer who loves tracing the origin of trends — from flight-attendant jumpsuits to the resurgence of marzipan — and collecting NYC merch. Over the ...

If you want to forget your troubles and tune out the state of the world, look no further than an online snail-appreciation group like Pet Snails and Slugs, which has ten thousand members from all over ...

You know, we could all use a good companion these days. A dog - but they shed. A cat - but they scratch. How about a snail? (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Snails are so hot ...

If parcels arrived in the early weeks of the lockdown, the wariness with which we collected them off the doorstep — fingertips tented, sweat on brow — arose not only out of a fear of surfaces teeming ...