Jaya Saxena

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  • Aug 26, 2025
    Squint and the flesh is almost beautiful, an ombre splattered on the counter. Pale peach bleeds into a deeper brick red, crossed with bands of pink and champagne. I didn’t know...
  • Jul 3, 2025
    This essay contains spoilers for The Phoenician Scheme Anatole “Zsa-Zsa” Korda is concerned about the same thing every complicated, slightly hateful, extremely rich...
  • Jun 12, 2025
    When Peter Phillips was brainstorming with his business partner for Massi’s, their new sandwich shop in Astoria, Queens, he wanted something with a “homemade feel,”...
  • Jun 3, 2025
    “I got completely and totally enamored with this new concept I saw in London,” writes Madeline Marcella in a Substack post titled “My guide to: The rise of...