His name is Sviatoslav Vakarchuk.But, in Ukraine, everyone calls him “Slava” …There, he’s an icon and a hero.It seems that he, too—before Zelensky—considered running for president.And, if he didn’t do it, his fans did it...

Europe is a continent crisscrossed and stitched together by iron rails. Running from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Arctic Circle, and from the minarets of the Bosporus to the lighthouses of Biscay, a matrix...

To get to Mendoza, the capital city of the Argentinean province of the same name and the nerve center of the country’s vast wine region, you first fly to Santiago, Chile. There, you connect with...

A selection of merry-making tokens of affection—from shearling-lined slippers to a California-inspired candle and more—all for just $100 or less

Salima Boufelfel, the woman behind Desert Vintage's stylist-beloved selection of singular sartorial gems, shares her favorite finds, from Parisian tea to a Moroccan lip stain

I was once invited to make my own perfume at a lab in the Midwest. (Don’t judge.) The conditions weren’t ideal. I was worried about missing my flight home, needing to get out of the...

Jerry Saltz, New York magazine’s art critic since 2006, didn’t start writing reviews until 1990, when he was 40. “Dishearteningly, many critics have ideas but no eye,” he wrote in 2005, when he was a...

A syrupy mojito or sweet piña colada isn’t for everyone. For those who prefer a no-nonsense cocktail, check out America’s only bitters-based ...

There is a time and a place for kitsch. Just ask the French-born, East London–based artist Laetitia Rouget, whose witty ceramics and ...

Those who geek out over fabrics, knits, and mills owe themselves a short jaunt to Columbia Road in East London, where Aya Nakagawa’s designs are ...

About halfway through Mike Birbiglia’s latest one-man show, The Old Man & the Pool

I credit Rebecca Gardner, the interior designer and entertaining maven behind the store Houses & Parties, for making me reconsider ruffles ...

At some point in the winter, you just give up. You accept the early bedtime, the reliance on carbohydrates, and even the need for long underwear

“I think we’re rushing in before we even really know what electricity is.” —Irina Mooney (Seamstress)”My gas car can go forward and reverse. Can electric cars do that?”—Ellie Slater (Interior Designer)”It’d be disrespectful to the...

“I never wanted to get married,” says Pattie Boyd. “I was aware that there were secretarial colleges, but I knew that wasn’t for me.” Instead, she became a model. Boyd got to London in 1962,...

Of all the holidays we enjoy and endure, Christmas is the one most laden with childhood memories, adult expectations, and the lore of Hollywood classics, where the fireplace logs crackle, carolers make their angelic rounds,...

I was taking a friend for a birthday lunch in Brixton, one of London’s foodie neighborhoods. I’d booked the table weeks before, handed over a $36 deposit, submitted our dates of birth, and read the...

This week, James Wolcott stops by to reminisce about the wonderful pleasures he discovered as a young man in 1980s New York, when he spent the holiday alone in an empty and beautiful city. Then,...

Diego Calva had already landed a role in Babylon, acting alongside Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, when the film’s director, Damien Chazelle, called him with an odd request. A few months earlier, in January 2021,...

At this year’s Frieze Masters fair, in London’s Regent’s Park, amid booths filled with work by Brueghel, Miró, and Rauschenberg, there was also a collection of some of the oldest and most eye-catching creations in...

In 1966, an interviewer asked Sonny Rollins if he was a perfectionist. You think?This was the titan of the tenor saxophone, the one who consumed everything Coleman Hawkins and Charlie Parker had done, then expanded...

“Dying is easy, comedy is hard” is a classic line about acting, but it could apply to crime writing as well. A sense of humor is hardly essential equipment for the job, and it’s tough...

Approximately the height of a cocktail shaker and the same silvery color, Cecelia Tichi’s Midcentury Cocktails comes aswirl with information and anecdotes poured, neat, over history. But does it belong on the bibliography of the...

There are magicians who practice sleight of hand, and then there are novelists who do the same with words, and no one does that trick better than Jess Walter. His fans include Barack Obama, and...

Lunch at La Huella, in José Ignacio, Uruguay, never really changes. Patrons sit on the restaurant’s open decks, sipping glasses of white wine and looking out onto the Atlantic. Should they get chilly, they can...

Dame Frances Campbell-Preston, who died last month aged 104, was one of the last witnesses to a vanished age. Not only was she the Queen Mother’s oldest surviving lady-in-waiting—she served Queen Elizabeth from 1965 until...