Yonatan Popper’s “Service Changes”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story New Yorkers are, by necessity, used to having their plans upended at the last minute. Anyone who regularly rides the bus or subway knows to be on the lookout for announcements…

Three Perfect Breakfast Sandwiches

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. You can eat any old sandwich for breakfast,…

Patrick Stewart Boldly Goes There

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When “Star Trek: The Next Generation” premièred, in 1987, a newspaper referred to its leading man as an “unknown British Shakespearean actor.” Patrick Stewart was already forty-seven and had spent fourteen…

The Long History of Jewface

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Leonard Bernstein had a big nose. It wasn’t distractingly big—not Cyrano-big, not Mr. Burns-big, not an Alpine astonishment like Mount Durante. It was, rather, a fine, substantial nose, the kind that confers dignity, especially…