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New York’s Finest Sandwich
The alchemy of any given sandwich is both specific and forgiving. Its stacked ingredients merge and mingle—you can swap out this or that, as long as whatever replaces it...
Sofia Coppola Stays in the Shallow End with the New Marc Jacobs Documentary
In the show notes handed to audience members at Marc Jacobs’s Fall/Winter 2026 presentation, at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in early February, the designer included a section titled...
My Parents Were Both Dying. Then I Found Out I Had Cancer
Everything took on a sickening poignancy: the boisterous din at our Saturday brunch place where, just a week before, my girlfriends and I had scrolled through the latest celebrity...
Remembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile
Until the very end, our friend and colleague Calvin Tomkins looked at his life with a sense of wonder and bemusement. He died on Friday at the age of...
Elaine Reichek’s Needlepoint Revolution
A scene from “Marc by Sofia.”Photograph courtesy Marc JacobsMarc Jacobs and Sofia Coppola are longtime friends, and it shows in “Marc by Sofia,” the relaxed and detailed documentary that...
Why Can’t You Finish Anything?
One obvious way to finish things is to seek out an external structure. It’s true that my book is overdue—and yet, being overdue is actually a blessed state, since...
Christian Petzold Ferries Audiences Through Grief
But in the work Petzold has produced since, some of that steely erudition has given way to surprising warmth and whimsy: “Undine” (2020), “Afire” (2023), and “Miroirs” feel almost...
In the Age of A.I., What Is Taste? And Do We Still Have It?
With artificial intelligence continuing to dominate corporate strategies and news headlines, Silicon Valley has embraced a new buzzword, one that may feel too close to home for those already...
The 2026 Oscars Were a Protest Against Their Own Irrelevance
These were stirring, unimpeachable sentiments; imagine the furor that might have erupted, by contrast, if Sean Penn, who famously disdains awards ceremonies, had shown up to collect his prize...
Can Psychoanalysis Help You Get the Life You Want?
Phillips is a figure for our therapy-soaked era, even if, for him, therapy feeds into and enables life, whereas we often seem to view life as feeding into and...
