Leave the Gun, Take the Cocktail In an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, a maître d’hôtel for Brooklyn’s River Café recalls getting on the wrong side of a Gotti mobster
Man of Letters The British painter Lucian Freud’s correspondence, collected in a new book, includes postcards, sketches, and love letters
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No. 176
The View from Here
PLUS
Serving the Mob
Fake Smiles
The Deal-maker
and more!
“Why Can’t You Write Normal?” Kathy Acker’s journey from daughter of Sutton Place to genre- and gender-bending cult novelist
In Colder Blood In Deliberate Cruelty, Roseanne Montillo explores the high-society murder that obsessed Truman Capote
Murder, They Wrote As the holiday season approaches, gifts for mystery book–lovers of every type
All Roads Lead to Paolo Di Paolo Ahead of a new movie by Bruce Weber on the forgotten photographer and chronicler of postwar Italy, we collect some of his most memorable pictures
