A few words on the plight of the restaurateur—surely one of the most valiant entrepreneurial endeavors in the vast spectrum of human enterprise.Running a restaurant—whether it’s a tiny noodle shop in a suburb of Shanghai...

Lanfranco Cirillo is sitting in front of his computer in shorts and a polo shirt. It’s hot in Dubai and he’s about to drive out to the seaside. The architect, who has spent decades providing...

Carrie Symonds may have clambered out of the bear pit, but she’s just wandered into the jungle. In January, the fiancée of Prime Minister Boris Johnson—and onetime P.R. chief for the Conservative Party—landed a cushy...

In The Human Stain, Philip Roth’s prescient 2000 novel about cancel culture, the American novelist wrote of a professor unfairly driven from his job after using racially insensitive language.Now it may be Roth’s turn to...

Three years ago, our daughter had to catch a cheap, 1am flight from Stansted. The whole family drove her to the airport, and even got chips from the drive-thru McDonald’s on the way. We know...

David Bowie said that the work of Derek Boshier “cascades over the decades and is utterly real and convincing.” At age 83, Boshier is at once a living legend and an unsung hero of postwar...

This week, Ashley and Mike discuss New York City restaurants—not just their place in the hearts and lives (and, yes, stomachs) of New Yorkers, but also the key role they will play in the city’s...

Just a one-hour flight from Nairobi, Kenya, Lamu Island (specifically, its Shela village) is attracting a portion of the art-world elite and global “affluencers” seeking to continue life—and culture—uninterrupted during the pandemic.Zero masks are worn...

At long last, Ulla Johnson—everyone’s favorite purveyor of modern bohemian fare—has introduced a full collection of handbags. ...

We first encountered the work of young English designer Hannah Weiland through her Technicolor faux-fur jackets, ...

With its newest version of the Nantucket timepiece, Hermès has combined the very best of jewelry and wristwatches. ...

Two favorite brands in one place? Sometimes, the universe is just too generous. Jean Touitou’s A.P.C. has just unveiled ...

Before the rise of #MeToo, the ongoing cascade of sexual-harassment accusations it set off, and the fetishization of victimhood, there was Tina Turner. A survivor in the truest sense of the word, one who escaped...

Whatever the recent Sino-American talks in Alaska meant in geopolitical terms, one clear winner was Zhang Jing, who was praised for her “fluent, unflustered and graceful translation” (The Vietnam Times) of Chinese-delegation speeches into English....

There’s never been a better time to be sober, and Ghia founder and C.E.O. Mélanie Masarin is among the responsible. The millennial branding guru launched Ghia, her herbaceous and delicious spirits-free aperitif, last summer with...

The rusticated façade of central Florence’s ritzy Palazzo Strozzi—the location of JR’s latest work, La Ferita (The Wound)—stands in stark contrast to the impoverished streets of the banlieue where the French artist was born. ...

It’s become commonplace, during the last miserable year, to embrace silver linings of any sort—needlepoint, baking, credibly bailing on social obligations. To these pleasures we can now add another: Rhiannon Giddens’s They’re Calling Me Home,...

My ratio of water to Diet Coke is seriously unbalanced. To compensate, I add these hydrating powders to the water I drink. They work ...

Eavesdropping at its finest, this podcast takes listeners into ...

If you didn’t know that the West Africa–based cocoa industry is especially vulnerable to shady business practices, including illegal ...

A lot of people consider the European Parliament, in Brussels, a joke and that’s the setting and premise of the political comedy series ...

One of the singular pleasures of reading Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth is his ability to find and bring to life on the page the women and men engaged in saving the planet. This skill is...

Bookshops are a dying breed, one of the saddest casualties of the tech revolution. Their rarity makes coming across one that much sweeter, a feeling evoked in a new collection of photos by Horst A....

It is not easy being the child of a great or famous person. Endless celebrities’ children’s memoirs remind us of that doleful fact, to the point that Famous-Parent Syndrome ought to be a recognized psychological...

When Richard Whittemore and Margaret Messler married in a Baltimore church, in October 1921, they were five years away from being the most famous couple in America. For a time, they were tabloid fodder for...

In September of 1969, David Yurman was a foreman in Hans Van de Bovenkamp’s sculpture studio in Greenwich Village when another young artist, named Sybil Kleinrock, walked in and applied for a job. Ten years...

Director Steve McQueen’s use of Janet Kay’s “Silly Games” in his film Lovers Rock was the best movie-music moment of 2020, if I do say so myself. So I thought I’d build a playlist around...