New York
Why aren’t my exes texting me during quarantine?
It appears love in the time of coronavirus isn’t my story
Tenor badness
Benny Golson, last legend of bebop
Consider the costs
The rush to impose sweeping restrictions on public and commercial life across the entire economy should be more carefully evaluated
Americans love living in a disaster movie
People of Earth, are you not entertained?
The brothers Cuomo
A live TV debate about who mom loves more
Riotous performances
Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro reviewed
Female confidence gurus: inside the feminist fad taking New York by storm
Regena spends the first minute of the talk gyrating to the beat with a huge smile on her face
The mob and me: my life in the crosshairs
Bars that served me were harassed and ‘Hate Has No Home Here’ signs appeared on my lawn
New York has really gone to pot when the tallest skyscrapers lie empty
Bad taste and bad manners are ubiquitous in New York, so why should good taste suddenly prevail in putting up buildings?
Stayin’ alive in ’75
Meryl Meisler’s photographs captured the family life and nightlife of Seventies New York
An Englishman in New York
Mist was blowing in drifts off the East River and already I could feel the intoxication of the city
A new mob at Sarah Lawrence College
Hope for Gen Z?
Show off and tell: the sad death of inconspicuous consumption
While I was in Manhattan I was dropped by my New Yorker girlfriend for not being rich enough
The Cardi B kongressional kandicacy
What she’d run on, where she should run and how she could win
In the cart of the city
‘The new owners employ Army vets for a few dollars a day to sit by a van in case an inspector comes’
An American pogrom
The Democrats have connived with incitement
Bowl food: childhood memories have inspired a new craze for cookie dough
Hundreds of customers can be seen snaking around the block, eagerly awaiting tubs and cones of buttery, sugary batter
For duck’s sake: New York’s foie gras ban is classic political posturing
The ban is about much more than animal rights. It is about punishing the rich. And it has to be, because the animal-rights case has no merit
American anti-Semitism is everyone’s problem
Jews, who are a reliable Democratic voting base, have to start demanding the change from the politicians on their own side
Trump vs the cities
Progressive leadership is destroying urban America
Michael Wolff is working on ‘nothing’
A surprising number of my contemporaries have children who are stand-up comics
What a drag: dress-up used to be fun. Now it is far too serious
Gender-bending as a good time is hardly done anymore. The rules are rigid
The race to replace Pete King
Sporting a slick hairdo and slicker website, Mike LiPetri has a polish that many New York Republicans lack
Junk food is my American dream
If you are a fat kid, it is an indelible state that can never be escaped much as one might try
Ben Schott’s traveler’s notes
I’m a keen student of hospitality’s ‘wow’ moments
