EPISODE VI: “Weekender Loonies and Sicko 212s!”
A final missive from Lansy Everett, formerly of the New York Herald Tribune, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Vogue, Worth, and Harper’s Bazaar
The Bob Project
My 25-year quest to sneak Dylan references into absolutely everything
Canadian Kama Sutra
Happy New Year! Your long-awaited guide to romance north of the border is here
Around the World in a Decade
Think globally, act … well, globally. The best of the new from the last 10 years, including Avicii, Rihanna, Kanye, Luis Fonsi, Drake, Lorde, Jay-Z, PSY, and more
Bonjour Tristesse
Once again, the French novelist Michel Houellebecq is a step ahead of current events. But his themes are timeless
Prince Among Men
The photographer behind My Name Is Prince, the largest-ever collection of images of the star, recalls the extraordinary experience of being in his orbit
The Panto Season ‘Tis upon Us
The British pantomime is noisy, camp, and a complete hoot
Apollonia Poilâne
The woman behind the legendary Paris bakery recommends the best cookbooks
Impeachment-Palooza
With disequilibrium the order of the day, some podcasts make smart, entertaining sense of it all
Master and Commander
The U.S.S. Lincoln projects American sea power on a small speck off the coast of Newfoundland
First Impressions
A new book remembers more than a decade spent in the orbit of Beckett and de Beauvoir. Here, its author describes her early encounters with the literary stars
No, Virginia, There Isn’t a Santa Claus!
Revisiting a Spy piece that proved, once and for all, scientifically, what no child wanted to hear
Music to Festoon By
Jollity and beauty from Joni Mitchell, Lena Horne, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Louis Armstrong, the Pogues, Eartha Kitt, and more
The Underground
The retro grandeur of Soviet-era metro stations
EPISODE V: “Nothing Ever Changes in Palm Beach”
A little more correspondence from Lansy Everett, formerly of the New York Herald Tribune, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar
