New York
French Exit
“All the Romance of Filmmaking Is Gone” Woody Allen on Paris, cancel culture, retirement, and “the whole mortality question”
Ladies Who Lunch
Dressing on the Side A history of the department-store lunch, from its Gilded Age beginnings to the fashionable dining rooms keeping the ritual alive today
Open Book
Portrait of a Country A new coffee-table book collects more than 100 rare and previously unpublished photographs by Lee Friedlander, America’s pre-eminent chronicler
The Imperfect Ending
Nicholson Baker The award-winning author, who’s written about everything from actual secret government programs to imagined inter-dimensional sex fantasias, reveals a few of his least favorite things
Close-up
Shyan Zakeri The Los Angeles native is bringing his favorite childhood burgers—greasy, thin patties—to New York City with his pop-up concept, Shy’s Burgers
The Long Run
Changing Places Linda Fairstein put Yusef Salaam in prison for the attack on the Central Park jogger. He was exonerated and is running for office; she is excoriated and living as a pariah
Books
Labor Pains
