Lena Dunham Reveals All
In her new memoir, Famesick, the actor-writer-director revisits the awful men—the difficult women—and the social-media flaying that almost destroyed her
Objects of Intent
Good design doesn’t perform—it endures. With Salone del Mobile about to open in Milan, this week’s edit turns to Italian objects built for daily life rather than display. Functional, restrained, and made to stay put
Small Town Girl
Jayne Anne Phillips was a literary wunderkind who counted Sam Shepard and Jim Harrison among her fans. Her latest book revisits her childhood in rural Appalachia
The Secret Life of Kurt Vonnegut
A new coffee-table book reveals the satirist as a visual artist, collecting 150 whimsical doodles that his daughter Nanette, who also writes the introduction, kept private for decades
Broadway Baby
In a revealing new biography, Daniel Okrent follows Stephen Sondheim’s story from his apprenticeship with Oscar Hammerstein II to the highest echelons of Broadway
An American in Paris
Wire acrobats, floating mobiles, wooden figures … Celebrating the centenary of Alexander Calder’s years living in the French capital, an exhibition presents more than 300 of his works
John and Christine Gachot’s Favorite Things
The husband-and-wife duo have built a practice defined by quietly persuasive spaces across hotels, homes, and retail. At Salone, they debut their first furniture collection for Artemest alongside an AIR MAIL edit of the objects they return to