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THE UNDERGROUND GOURMET: Veselka's Baczynsky Returns

A ham-and-cheese sandwich that’s much more than the sum of its parts.

113 minutes with … André Leon Talley

From his living room in White Plains, the fashion writer on his new memoir and old friends.

Danny Meyer Misses Bumping Into People

Life during lockdown, and still in the spotlight.

Middleditch & Schwartz – Yes Really?

Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz want to make you love improv, the world’s least-respected comic genre. With a little help from Netflix, they just might succeed.

Can the Park Slope Food Coop Survive?

Long lines, slashed revenues, and hard-to-enforce social distancing have members and management worried.

The Isolation Handbook: Matthew Schneier

Now Is the Perfect Time to Memorize a Poem Give yourself over to a rhythm that is not your own.

Are You Rich Enough to Survive This Pandemic? A Tale of Two Covids.

Even Naked, America Cannot See Itself – In a time of plague, willful blindness is a coping mechanism.

Surrounded by Friends

Katie Stout and her husband, Jeff Kinkle, are in quarantine in their Fort Greene apartment, which feels a bit enchanted.

THE UNDERGROUND GOURMET - Shopping Like a Chef, Eating Like a Civilian

Bulk quantities, incomplete orders, and pristine produce: What happens when restaurant suppliers brave home delivery.

Libber's Last Stand

Mrs. America’s stylish history of the rise of the counter-counterculture.

Sheltering With Your Boss

Five Nannies Tell All.

Intelligencer

Fatal Calculations The enduring influence of men who have been wrong about everything for decades.

American Winner

TREASURY SECRETARY STEVEN MNUCHIN EMBODIES THE PLUTOCRATIC PRINCIPLE THAT A CRISIS IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE

At Home (Where Else?) With Jimmy Fallon

The late-night host makes a quarantine comeback, with an assist from his wife and kids.

When the Restaurants Closed, They Cooked for Each Other

Chef Ignacio Mattos had just earned a Michelin star. Now he’s struggling to feed his staff.

New York Four Weeks In – Two Hours Daily to Sanitize, Two Hours to Cry

At the hospital at the epicenter of the city at the epicenter of the global pandemic, an emergency-room doctor struggles to keep it together—and find supplies.

She Let Them Pick Paper Topics— Half Chose COVID-19

Samantha Elkaim knows she can’t replicate her classroom, but maybe she can still reach her students.

New York Four Weeks In – The Return of Fear

New York, a child of disaster, remembers its past.

Pushing Against the Darkness

Thundercat is serious about never losing his sense of play, and his new album is both virtuosic and fun.

Movements: Eric Levitz

The Essential Work The politics of COVID-19 pick up where Bernie Sanders left off.

90 minutes with … La'Darius Marshall

Cheer’s brooding breakout star’s last days on the mat.

How to Survive This Plague – 10 How Lower the Parenting Bar

I’VE WORKED FROM HOME since 2009 when the economy collapsed and my kids were only 3 and 5.

How to Survive This Plague – 4 Walk the Dog

THIS MORNING, I walked the dog. I hadn’t slept much (who’s sleeping?) and at 2 a.m. was on the couch texting with a friend about earthquakes and World War II and our sudden alienation from our regular lives, which seem, in retrospect, almost silly in their prettiness, but then 8 a.m. rolled around and the dog needed to go out.

Reinstall Tinder, or, If That Doesn't Work, Join a Virtual Sext Bunker

COVID-19 is like the trip-to-Ikea litmus test for relationships.

How to Survive This Plague – 24 Sign Up for Couples Therapy

THANKS TO TIGHT QUARTERS (and looming existential dread), couples are arguing about everything and nothing at all.

How to Survive This Plague – 3 Learn a TikTok Dance

TikTok is full of 15-to-60-second-long user-choreographed dances, some of which go viral. Here, nine to try to teach yourself at home, ranked by difficulty. Can you get good enough to upload your own?

As Long As You're Stuck in Your Apartment, Give Yourself a Story to Live

Artist Peter McGough has always insisted on living as if he’s in another era. He shares his West Village railroad apartment with mementos and Queenie.

How to survive this plague – Browse Masterpieces of Mass Death

Getting close to a Bruegel is like running your eyes through combed hay— rough, textured into infinity, every microdetail filled with energy.

How to survive this plague – 1 Slow Down

Like wars, plagues can make us see where we are.