Terry Jon Martin had been out of federal prison for 10 years when the call came about stealing the ruby red slippers.They were on display in the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, a...

It was probably 1995 when I tried, briefly and with muted enthusiasm, to become a student activist. I pretended to read Marx and Engels, but my politics were (small w) wobbly and uncommitted. The real...

“You married a protector,” Griffin Dunne tells his aunt Joan in the 2017 documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, and she readily agrees. But her husband, John Gregory Dunne, only looked like the...

People who have known me since the 1980s have probably heard my story about the time I bit Frank Stronach. Their curiosity remained dormant until earlier this year, when Stronach, a billionaire and pillar of...

The words “Harvard” and “Republican” don’t typically go hand in hand. Only 12 percent of the senior class last year identified as “conservative” or “very conservative,” while 65 percent identified as “progressive” or “very progressive,”...

Last month I found myself in Essex, England, sinking into a sofa next to Henry Scragg, a bearded, 40-year-old man with ginger dreadlocks and a cornucopia of facial tattoos. I sipped on scalding tea from...

At one point in history, the pill was heralded as a medical marvel, a way to unshackle women from an unwanted future. For female equality and independence, no invention of the 20th century has been...

In the run-up to the 1924 presidential election, which pitted Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge against Democrat John W. Davis, the Parisian watering hole Harry’s Bar offered its American patrons something new on the menu: a...

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The L.A.-based interior designer recently launched Galerie Solis, a collection of original furniture and textiles as well as antiques and accessories. Her style dispatch includes Il Buco Vita candleholders, Bellocq No. 55 mint tea, and...

The day he saw the king have sex with his mother is a childhood memory that will never leave Angel Cristo.Barbara Rey made a paella on the terrace of her family home for Juan Carlos...

It’s not that Kristi Noem, Aaron Rodgers, and Taylor Swift didn’t have their fans. They did, enough of them to finish third and tied for fourth, respectively. But if you want to dominate the Attention-Whore...

The Plaud NotePin AI Memory CapsuleA “lifelogger” to keep track of what you (or your spouse) might forgetYou can lie to your dog and get away with it. But everyone else, from partners to children...

The Brunello Cucinelli brand is not something we usually associate with motorcycles, but that’s all about to change. The house’s new ...

There’s finally a chill in the air, which means—after you’ve queued up a suitable Nora Ephron movie—it’s time for a winter-wardrobe ...

Ancestrel is one of the best young natural-wine distributors in the U.K. (The Louis Julian “Mega Blend” from their Rhône portfolio ...

Today’s top-shelf toothbrushes, with their neon-colored bristles and rubber grip pads, are—if you think about it—unsophisticated. Enter ...

The silkiest frozen Greek yogurt is sold at Madison Fare, on New York’s Upper East Side. Doused in gorgeous pistachio knafeh ...

It’s hard to imagine that a prison memoir could be charming, particularly when the author is an implacable opposition leader who ...

If you read Jilly Cooper, the first thing you notice (beyond the shagging) is the scenery.Rutshire — the fictional county where her books are set — is a voluptuous, fantasy playpen. It is filled with...

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion …— Joan Didion, Slouching Towards BethlehemNotions of romance—and Didion—were indeed in the air in Greenwich Village last Tuesday night as guests packed...

Lili Anolik looks at a question that’s always intrigued the literati—what exactly was the nature of the relationship between Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne? Then our man in Paris, John von Sothen,...

Rare is the person without an item of denim in their wardrobe. Whether that’s a Primark jacket, some well-loved Levi’s or a pair of $2000 Balenciaga jeans will depend on your age, taste and income.Whoever...

Sophie Calle is a photographer, writer, filmmaker, exhibitionist, detective, and spy. Given her ambiguous relationship with privacy law, she’s also been called a thief and a stalker. Unfettered by public opinion and legal claims, Calle,...

Sean Baker is fastidious about research, plunging himself into the milieu of whatever he happens to be making a movie about. And yes, he knows how that looks. “People online are like, ‘Oh, Sean is...

I took it for granted — that the kids would be bookworms, too. After all, they were born into a house where every wall has a buckling bookcase. Both their parents write books. And my...

On the eve of the opening of his retrospective, “Stephen Jones, Chapeaux d’Artiste,” at the Palais Galliera, in Paris’s Eighth Arrondissement, the famed British milliner is fitting a lacquered straw boater on the head of...

“Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion,” Apsley Cherry-Garrard wrote at the conclusion of The Worst Journey in the World, his classic account of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s failed bid to claim the...

Randy Newman is, in no particular order, a crank, an Oscar-winning film-score composer—if you, like me, were bawling through Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, you might have missed the orchestration—and the singer of a No. 2...

In 1935, when Le Corbusier was a guest speaker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 18-year-old Ieoh Ming Pei was in the audience. Pei grew up in wealthy Hong Kong, and like many of his...

You’d be hard-pressed to find a gourmet in Beirut who hasn’t heard of Oslo. Nayla Audi first opened the cake and ice-cream shop in 1997, in the Mar Mikhael neighborhood, infusing traditional flavors from rose...

Finneas O’Connell (who goes mononymously by Finneas) is a lot like King Midas: every song he touches turns to gold, or platinum, or double platinum, for that matter. Composing since the age of 12, Finneas,...