The Enemy Within


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On any given day, you might find Julien Lombrail, a founder of Carpenters Workshop Gallery, having lunch at Table, Bruno Verjus’s Michelin-starred restaurant in Paris’s 12th Arrondissement. Across the Channel, Loïc Le Gaillard, Lombrail’s co-founder,...

It is a truism that the European Parliament is one of the dullest places in the world. In this it has not been helped by being located in Brussels, one of the dullest cities on...

It is no secret that Griffin Dunne is a first-rate actor and director, but now we know he is a superb memoirist. The Friday Afternoon Club is everything an autobiography should be: beautifully written, highly...

Rupert Murdoch, 93, having previously been married to Patricia Booker (1956–67), Anna Murdoch Mann (1967–99), Wendi Deng (1999–2013), and Jerry Hall (2016–22), and engaged to Ann Lesley Smith (2023), was married last week to Elena...

Oh bless you, Fergie, you should have said. All this time the woman lucky enough to look at the Duke of York over the breakfast table has been hiding her light under a bushel.”I haven’t...

Of all those considered responsible for the outcome of America’s Vietnam debacle, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara usually get the most blame.It was they who turned a commitment of...

James Corden is back in the UK and characteristically busy. Last year, the 45-year-old left his job as Los Angeles-based chat show host of The Late Late Show on CBS. A Christmas special is planned...

In 1851, Sir Edwin Landseer, a favorite artist of Queen Victoria’s, painted a huge oil-on-canvas of an impossibly large stag set against the backdrop of a rocky, fog-swept Highland landscape. The beast is far bigger...

It's peak garden season, and AIR SUPPLY is inspired by all things botanical. Whether you have a vast plot to plant and prune or are a city dweller seeking more greenery in your life, our...

The founder of Flowerbx, the London-based floral service preferred by Tom Ford and Victoria Beckham, shares her must-haves: Smythson stationery, Varley joggers, and more

Swarovski Optik AX Visio BinocularsA pair of A.I.-enabled binocs that will spice up your bird-watching …Sometime in the early 1960s, your columnist’s dad, a keen radio ham, made history in our London suburb by having...

Donald Trump put a decisive end to several straight weeks of feeble Attention Whore performances with a whopping 53.1 percent of your votes. Being declared a convicted felon 34 times over will do that. Martha-Ann...

There’s nothing better than the much-loved English clothing line, Toast ...

J. J. Martin’s designs are not for the faint of bikini. Now the designer of La DoubleJ has teamed up with Adam Brown ...

“Most foods have recipes—steak has rules,” writes Tim Hayward, whose passion and reverence for steak has led to ...

Buying a Leica is sort of like having a newborn, but with less noise. It’s exhilarating and frightening all ...

When you think of the Catskills, family resorts, postwar America, and images of Jewish families come to mind. But a small community ...

After a yearslong onslaught of friends’ weddings, the social calendar has now given way to a parade of first-birthday parties ...

When I picked up The Village Voice during the 70s and 80s, it was mainly to read James Wolcott (now an Air Mail colleague), see who was playing at CBGB and the Bottom Line, and...

We all know so much about the dramas of the 20th century, from the one that ended with the Treaty of Versailles to the one that ended with our parents’ divorce. Less familiar, but no...

As has been evident for at least the past two decades, America is a radically polarized country, more so today than at any time since the Vietnam War. Democrats demonize Republicans as coldhearted zealots while...

You can’t get far in Dublin without banging into some literary giant.Passengers arriving at the airport are confronted by a billboard asking, “Isn’t there the light of seven heavens in your heart alone … ?”...

An exhibition on now at the Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem, Massachusetts, confidently asserts that Moby-Dick is the “most persistently pictured of all American novels.” A surely unverifiable claim, though it makes intuitive sense: if...

This week, Elena Clavarino takes us inside her story about a culture of alleged sexual harassment and alleged financial impropriety at the art world’s most prestigious design gallery. Then it’s election season … not just...

I went to ThisBowl, in NoHo, at three P.M. on a recent Thursday, after the usual down-the-block line for the Asian-inspired salad-and-rice-bowl restaurant had finally dwindled. Inside, models in knee-length denim shorts and professionals on...

When Devon Lee Carlson was 17, she and her younger sister, Sydney, saw Miley Cyrus at a restaurant in Los Angeles. Cyrus complimented the girls’ hand-made, floral-and-studded iPhone cases, which the sisters promptly gave to...