The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part II
Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller’s Marilyn: A Biography sold more copies than anything Mailer ever wrote. He also believed it cost him a Nobel Prize
Pretty Privilege for Sale
GLP-1s are making it possible to rig the genetic lottery. What happens to the people who can’t afford them?
Annie Doble’s Guide to Ibiza
The founder of Annie’s Ibiza shares her go-to spots in one of the cities she calls home
Fran Lebowitz Lays Down the Law
In an interview, the author and wit casts her judgment on Labubus, leaf blowers, and needless expressions of love
The Year of Umm Kulthum
The Egyptian singer’s millions of fans include Maria Callas, Bob Dylan, and Beyoncé
Connections: Special Trumpworld Edition!
Play our unauthorized version of the popular game
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part I
How the unlikely, tumultuous partnership of Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller produced the true-crime masterpiece The Executioner’s Song
Love Child
Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid is the centerpiece of a new exhibition in London, marking the first time the 17th-century painting—a visionary work that helped usher in the Baroque—has gone on public view in the U.K.
Modern Times
A new coffee-table book gathers the work of 300 designers—among them Florence Knoll, Lina Bo Bardi, and Charles Eames—whose creations shaped midcentury style around the world
Architecture’s Black Sheep
With more than 200 archival works, an exhibition in Chicago honors Bruce Goff, the Frank Lloyd Wright protégé whose eccentric midcentury houses broke free of modernist restraint
“Area Loser Wants Job”
The longest-serving editor of The Onion on how a group of “unemployable” twentysomethings created America’s foremost satirical publication
Everybody Loves Emily in Paris
Darren Star, the mastermind behind the hit Netflix show, reveals how he writes about women, won over the French—and what Emily could do next
Christmas in Black and White
From Santas protesting on Fifth Avenue to plastic Nativity scenes, a new coffee-table book collects Lee Friedlander’s pictures of the holidays in America
The Sarkozy Redemption Tour
The former French president has turned his 20 days in prison—Soggy baguettes! Plastic pillows!—into a 200-page best-selling memoir
The Dickens of Detroit
On the centenary of Elmore Leonard’s birth, a look back at how the American novelist redefined the crime genre with his colorful characters and unvarnished prose
Harold Koda’s Guide to Honolulu
The former curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute shares his go-to spots in his hometown
