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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...
China’s Shifting Relationship to the Countryside
Most of the way up the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, which rises to a height of more than eighteen thousand feet, in southwestern China’s Yunnan Province, there is a...
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...
“Two Prosecutors,” “Palestine ’36,” and the Tribulations of Resistance in the Thirties
By the time Kornev is finally ushered into the cell of Stepniak (a mesmerizing Aleksandr Filippenko), there’s no sense of triumph or even anticipation about what he will discover....
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Julio Torres...
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...
