Perfect powder. Luxury accommodations. Lively restaurants. An experience designed with a jet-set, snow-fiend in mind. We could be talking about Aspen, Vail, Megève, Cortina d’Ampezzo or Whistler; but we’re talking about Hakuba Valley in – you might have guessed it – Japan. From December to May each year, skiers-who-know flock to the mountainous village in the Nagano Prefecture that hosted part of the 1998 Winter Olympics. Since it’s on the same island as Tokyo, it’s a simple

Anne Hathaway is talking about work-life balance, a concept that actresses were asked about for decades and their male counterparts never were. It may have reached its apex (or nadir, depending on how you look at it) in 2013, when Sheryl Sandberg told every woman to lean in, that they could “have it all”, which mostly meant having a family and a full-throttle career and no time to feel adequate at any of it. For a while, everyone seemed to agree that this was a good thing. In