I Worked for the Real Wizard of the Kremlin In early-aughts Moscow, Vladislav Surkov educated me on the finer points of “pop propaganda.” Now he’s the inspiration for Olivier Assayas’s new film
That’s the Spirit! Inside the totally far-fetched grassroots campaign to revive the bankrupt Spirit Airlines for the people
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Glorious Country
To stand in front of the immense The Heart of the Andes, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is to understand why Frederic Church…
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James Smith & Sons
Cavemen had clubs, Vikings had axes, but what can the modern man-about-town brandish to continue this martial tradition, while steering…
Each Man Is an Island Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say follows a high school teacher as he feels increasingly alienated within his coastal Massachusetts community
Where Bob Dylan Met the Beatles From the Savoy in London to an airport hotel in Queens, the little-known story of the rooms where the musical giants forged a surprisingly close bond
The Story of Jim and Jan In her new biography, Sara Wheeler portrays the intrinsic contradictions of the transgender travel writer
Form over Function A new exhibition in Brooklyn showcases 140 garments by the Dutch designer Iris van Herpen, whose work blurs the line between fashion and sculpture
