Topic: Society

The Dinner Party Is Dead. Long Live the Dinner Party!

Flickr/Richard Casey

In this week's Thursday Style section, the New York Times presents a terrifying conundrum for the world in which we live: Is the dinner party, that elegant trademark of yore, in its final throes?

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