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How the Bright Young Things Bloomed

The Surreal World of Elsa Schiaparelli

A new book, accompanying an exhibition in Paris, explores the sensational creations of the Italian designer

A Night Celebrating Jim McMullan

Louise Grunwald, Ed Sorel, and André Bishop gathered at the Waverly Inn to celebrate the illustrator’s new book

Stretches of the Imagination

Staff Picks

Don’t miss profiles of 31 little-known New Yorkers; the story of how Sesame Street was adapted for Russian TV; and a cookbook from the Via Carota chefs

Man of Letters

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 mobster from the Gotti crime family—and how he lived to tell the tale

Murder, They Wrote

As the holiday season approaches, gifts for mystery book–lovers of every type

In Colder Blood

Hot Topic

Ever since Edward VIII abdicated the British throne to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson, there has been speculation about their relationship. A new book attempts to set the record straight

Neighborhood Watch

Michael Kimmelman, the New York Times architecture critic and lifelong New Yorker, discusses the old Village and new downtowns

“Why Can’t You Write Normal?”

Kathy Acker’s journey from daughter of Sutton Place to genre- and gender-bending cult novelist

Acquired Taste

The granddaughter of the River Cafe’s Ruthie Rogers discovers the thrill of cooking, one page at a time

Broken Images

T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” is the rare modernist masterpiece that still feels modern

Crime Pays

He’s written 37 books and sold more than 80 million copies—yet The New York Times still won’t give Michael Connelly’s well-crafted and timely whodunits a proper review

Down to Business

From Unknown to Downton, with Stops Along the Way

Dreams in Progress

A new book celebrates Hollywood’s greatest behind-the-scenes photographer

The Power and the Glory

In 1985, G.E. purchased RCA for $6.3 billion in cash, then the largest M&A deal of all time. That G.E. was actually buying back a business it had started 65 years earlier was largely forgotten

Not Your Father’s Ghostwriter

Unfortunately for the royal family, J. R. Moehringer, Prince Harry’s ghostwriter, specializes in damaged father-son relationships

Out of Step

While researching his book about the dance company Ballet Russes, Rupert Christiansen stumbled upon a dance critic’s account of their awkward interview

Being Bunny

The Filmmaker-to-Critic Road Map

Mystery Man

Eight Questions with Anthony Horowitz, the man behind Foyle’s War and Agatha Christie’s Poirot, a series of Sherlock Holmes and James Bond novels, and his own mystery TV show