Rodney Everlasting
With the magic of Wes Anderson, the imagination of René Magritte, and the mystery of Alfred Hitchcock, Rodney Smith’s photographs—collected in a new coffee-table book—create a fantastical world untouched by time
Daddy Issues
To the outside world, my father was a gifted and accomplished author. To his family, he was a self-destructive and deeply flawed man
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part IV
Norman Mailer snubbed Lawrence Schiller when accepting the Pulitzer Prize for The Executioner’s Song. But that didn’t stop Schiller from cutting Mailer in on his latest exclusive: Lee Harvey Oswald’s K.G.B. files
The Cult of Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Norwegian writer inspires a reverence bordering on worship among his mostly male fans. He can bring grown men to tears with a single sentence
Gone with the Winds
How an unexpected shift in the weather brought news of the Chernobyl disaster to the West—and marked the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union
Promising Young Women
Jean Seberg, Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Agnès Varda … a coffee-table book pays tribute to the women of the French New Wave
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?
