ALEXANDRA JACOBS

September 10, 2023

Book Review: ‘Pockets,’ by Hannah Carlson

In her nifty “Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close,” Hannah Carlson unbuttons the politics behind who gets to hide their belongings, and where. POCKETS: […]
May 18, 2020

The Joy of Jogging Very, Very Slowly

ImageCredit…Illustration by Kaisha Murzamadiyeva/The New York Times The Joy of Jogging Very, Very Slowly By It’s a great day for the race. The human race. At […]
January 21, 2020

I Quit Chewing Gum

ImageCredit…Photo Illustration by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times I Quit Chewing Gum It’s costly. It’s unsightly. And my jaws are tired. By Jan. 20, 2020 Forget […]
November 27, 2019

When Department Stores Were Theater

After the hundreds of jobs going poof and the thus-far inadequate discounts, the saddest thing about the closure of Barneys New York is that its signature […]
December 20, 2017

Yes Me Can

Advertisement The word “me” has suffered mightily since Tom Wolfe’s rollicking indictment in the pages of New York magazine over 40 years ago. He deemed the […]
November 22, 2017

The Culture Is Changing, With Feminist Cheese

Last year Erin Bligh, the proprietor of Dancing Goats Dairy in Newbury, Mass., planned to introduce a new cheese — hard, with spicy peppers — called […]
June 14, 2017

Meet the Goopies

CULVER CITY, Calif. — Mocking Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle company, Goop, has become a national pastime played on late-night television, the internet and, with the parody “Glop,” […]