The Man Who Ate Paris He wears wigs, trashes legendary pâtissiers, and terrifies the city’s top chefs. Meet Yann, the viral critic rattling France’s culinary establishment
The Ken Burns of YouTube Jon Bois makes documentaries about athletes named Bob, baseball brawls, and the worst team in N.B.A. history. Why are they so moving?
Latest Issue • Sept. 5, 2026
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No. 373
The View from Here
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ALL ABOUT EVE
THE GREAT FALL OF CHINA
PORTRAITS OF GRIEF
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Middlemen
There are excellent books about literary editors—A. Scott Berg on Maxwell Perkins and Amy Reading on Katharine S. White come to mind…
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Symbol Audio x USM
I’d describe my interior-design taste as similar to that of Bunny Williams—traditional, colorful, lived-in—but there are days I fantasize…
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Better Living Through Chemistry
Before “Praise You” skyrocketed Norman Quentin Cook, otherwise known as Fatboy Slim, to total…
Invisible Men Marlon James’s Booker-long-listed novel confronts a brutal act of violence against a group of gay men in 1980s Jamaica
Cohn Job In American Scoundrel, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird turns his attentions to Roy Cohn, fixer to Donald Trump and Joseph McCarthy
Pucci Undercover Emilio Pucci’s niece traces the remarkable tale of how the designer risked his life smuggling essential files to the Allies during World War II
Home Sweet Home The Bayeux Tapestry, a medieval embroidery that has long fascinated storytellers such as George R. R. Martin, returns to England for the first time in 1,000 years
