Innholdsfortegnelse for February 17 - March 2, 2020 i New York Magazine

1 In the latest issue, Melissa Dahl explored a scientific theory that argues we possess an infinite number of emotions, so long as we can name them (“Introducing: 78 More Feelings,” February 3–16). Dozens of writers identified new feelings for the magazine—from jealoushy to libido snap to Freundeschaden. Many readers responded to the article on Instagram and Twitter by coining their own new feelings, including: Malmiss: When you want to be missed by someone whom you also wish would leave you alone. —@courtneycollecting Shrediness: The thrill you get listening to a song and imagining you’re nailing the guitar solo. —@sampalmy Cuddlish: When you wanna cuddle for 2 mins but then stop to actually sleep. —@emilynhan FOBI: Fear of Being Included. I’m good. Leave me out. The energy it takes to…

➸ JANNAH HANDY AND KIYANNA STEWART began going to thrift stores together in 2014 while both were at Rutgers University. “Kiyanna grew up thrifting. So when we started dating, it’s something I’d do to spend time with her,” says Handy. Their pastime had them combing regional estate sales and flea markets, then selling what they found on Etsy; later, they created a website. “We realized that older white men run this industry. The artifacts we’d see in these places did not represent us or our history,” says Stewart. At first, they grappled with how much of what they took home should be black. “We’d find some cool industrial pieces and a collection of Jet magazines, and we’d put both up for sale,” Stewart says. “Eventually, we made a decision to…

Get a library card. The 42nd Street branch is a research library, which means you can’t take books out (the exception is the children’s section). But you’ll need a card to look at the rare editions, photographs, and ephemera in the building (which can be reserved in advance by emailing the library, or you can ask in person; if a book you’d like is in the stacks, it’ll take about 45 minutes to come up). Apply online, then go pick up the card in the Bill Blass Public Catalog Room on the third floor. Make a right in the Rose Main Reading Room. The most famous spot in the library, designed by Carrère and Hastings, runs the length of two city blocks and has 52-foot-high gilded ceilings covered in murals…

A waiter shakes the jar tableside to emulsify the yolk and sauce before pouring the pasta onto a plate. The chef adds Pecorino Romano to the pan with the pork and pasta, then seasons with that carbonara hallmark cracked black pepper. For the sauce, Forgione braises pig’s ears and tosses them in a pan with guanciale. “Eggs absorb everything,” says Forgione, who steeps his yolks in smoked olive oil. Fresh spaghetti is extruded in-house. When chef Marc Forgione accepted Frank DeCarlo’s offer last fall to take over Peasant, he resolved to maintain the Nolita institution’s defining characteristics: the familiar name; the cozy vibe; the primal, wood-fired kitchen. And as a recent dinner indicated, so far, so good. Still, it came as something of a surprise when our spaghetti carbonara materialized…

DID YOU KNOW they’re doing “spoiler alert” warnings in books now? There one is, printed in the preamble to Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille: “New readers are advised that this introduction makes details of the plot explicit.” It’s interesting to imagine what prompted this forewarning. Had readers been rage-tweeting about plot points of novels being “spoiled” by scholarly intros? Or was the publisher, Penguin Classics, merely protecting itself from hypothetical complaints? I’m embarrassed by the implication in either case—we’re readers, not babies! But I don’t blame Penguin for following the golden rule of public relations: When in doubt, play it safe. Mostly because Romance in Marseille plays it safe in no other ways. Reading it, I got the sweaty, panicked sensation of wanting to “do something” with the information I…

HERE IS ONE starting point for contemplating a second Trump term: The Ukraine scandal only became a Trump scandal because Ukraine refused to submit to a pair of presidential demands that would have been fairly easy to satisfy. If Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky had merely announced that he was looking into a mysterious missing Democratic server and corruption by the Bidens, then the whole affair probably wouldn’t have become a Trump scandal at all. It would have become, to the American news-consuming public, a Biden scandal. Ukraine held off, though, for a very sensible reason. Ukrainians, analyzing American politics, calculated that Trump may not stay in office much beyond this year. It was a hedge against forever Trumpism. Trump’s favorable rating fell faster than any other president-elect’s in the history…

1 Jet magazines, from $25: “We have a couple hundred issues in the store. Folks grew up with Jet in their household—reading them or just seeing them on their coffee tables or in their bathrooms.” KIYANNA STEWART 2 Assata Shakur pin, $75: “This is an original pin from the 1970s that depicts a former member of the Black Liberation Army. It’s rare to come across original pieces with Shakur on them, so whenever we do find one, we snatch it right up.”K.S. 3 Angela Davis pin, $35: “They’re the same ones that folks would get when they made a contribution to her bail fund or sent her a letterthey’d either get a pin or a sticker back that said I GAVE TO FREE ANGELAor FREE ANGELAon it. The Angela Davis…

YOU CAN SEE the telephone number plastered across the side of the handsome old brick building at 728 East 136th Street as you walk from the Cypress Avenue 6-train stop. It might as well be a blinking neon sign heralding the changes taking place in Port Morris, the Bronx, which is becoming the latest postindustrial refuge for people who need studio space. When the Altmark Group purchased the building in 1994, it housed light manufacturing, and in part, it still does. (Its M1-2 zoning doesn’t permit residential use.) But two decades later, more and more artists began looking to the neighborhood. When a moving-and-storage company occupying the entire fifth floor left for New Jersey, “we had this big block of space available. It was like 15,000 square feet,” says Barry…

KATE ELIZABETH RUSSELL traces the beginning of her obsession with Lolita to an encounter with the musician Jakob Dylan. It was 1997, and the novelist was 13 years old, precocious and bored, living on an isolated lake some 15 miles east of Bangor, Maine. Dylan, then in his late 20s, was coming to town with his band, the Wallflowers, and he wanted to meet Stephen King, the local royalty. Russell’s father happened to be a DJ for King’s radio station, and he arranged a dinner. Russell and her cousin got to tag along. She remembers trembling through the meal, struggling to contain her excitement as she watched the charismatic front man tear apart a bread roll with his hands. Later, she read everything she could find about him. In a…

The Eyes Sonic’s eyes are now much larger and more expressive, evoking the uni-eye of his video-game designs. The green irises have also been lightened to hew closer to the game design. The Fur Old Sonic’s fur looks coarse and resembles a wild animal’s. New Sonic’s fur is fluffier, like a stuffed animal. Larger quills jut out of his head. The Nose The old design has a pointy and more realistic animal-like nose that tapers gradually, while the new version has a skinnier button nose that is more reminiscent of classic Sonic. The Chest Sonic’s chest is now beige, rather than white, bringing him more in line with the Sonic that fans are already familiar with. The Teeth Sonic’s teeth in the first iteration are disconcertingly detailed, almost as if…

Trump is pursuing litigation that, if successful, would eliminate health insurance for approximately 20 million people overnight, according to an Urban Institute estimate. DYLAN SCOTT Trump’s proposed freeze on mandatory fuel-efficiency improvements will cost consumers about $460 billion in increased fuel costs, according to ‘Consumer Reports.’ MATTHEW YGLESIAS The Interior Department has finalized plans to shrink Bears Ears, a protected area of 1.3 million acres in Utah, by 85 percent. LAUREN KATZ More than 210,000 former students at for-profit colleges have asked the Education Department to cancel their loans because they were defrauded. Betsy DeVos’s department has said most of those students will still have to repay. LIBBY NELSON…

SAL MARKOWICZ 95, Former Plasterer Great blazer. Yes, I like to look good. Every day, you can see I wear nice shirts and jackets. This one or my even more elegant Yves Saint Laurent one. I like to be clean; you’ll never see a spot on my pants. In my room, you can see a picture of me from my wedding, in Belgium—I was in a very nice suit. You’re from Belgium? I am from Poland. In 1939, I went to the concentration camps. From 14 years old to 19, I moved from camp to camp. Then Brussels to Israel to Riverdale. What’s a normal day like for you here? I play dominoes, which I’m very good at. I usually play with a woman named Sandra. We spend most of…

WHEN AUTHOR Wendy C. Ortiz singled out My Dark Vanessa on Twitter for being similar to her 2014 memoir, Excavation, people began to accuse Russell of plagiarism and cultural appropriation. JANUARY 19 The Tweet That Started It Ortiz tweets about My Dark Vanessa, writing, “[C]an’t wait until February when a white woman’s book of fiction that sounds very much like Excavation is lauded.” The Public Reaction People respond to Ortiz’s tweet, offering support and echoing her statement. Some go so far as to accuse Russell of plagiarism, claims that would escalate in the following weeks. Erin Ryan, writer and host of Crooked Media’s Hysteria podcast, calls Russell’s book the fictional “white version” of Ortiz’s story. Over the next few days, Ortiz continues to tweet about My Dark Vanessa. She says…

JOSH THOMAS SNEAKED into America with Please Like Me, a somewhat autobiographical cult comedy about floundering Australian 20-somethings, but now he’s staking his claim in the U.S. with Everything’s Gonna Be Okay. The new show is on Freeform, Disney’s network geared to teens, and the essential elements are the same: Both are filled with gay characters whose neuroses, obsessions with well-plated meals, and sex lives stem from Thomas’s own life and observations of those around him. Everything weds his fondness for sweetly cringe-inducing comedy to the structure of a more traditional family sitcom centered on an older sibling abruptly saddled with more responsibility than he expects he can handle. (The show premiered in mid-January, but older episodes are streaming on Hulu.) The voice he established on Please Like Me gave…

Losing Ground Kathleen Collins’s 1982 film about the desires of a black female philosopher—among the first features directed by a black woman—is having a renaissance of late with its rerelease. Daughters of the Dust, Amazon Prime Shot by Arthur Jafa and recently remastered, Julie Dash’s 1991 drama about migration and post-slavery Sea Islands life takes place under a sky in perpetual sunset. Watchmen, HBO Regina King is powerful and dynamic as Sister Night, and the live-action treatment of the graphic novel’s tone, pace, and sensibilities is exquisite.…