The Departure Lounge
From Oscar winners and auteurs to sex therapists and littérateurs, the year’s departed—condensed into one sentence
Lance Morrow
The courtly Time-magazine essayist who described the American Century with wit, outrage, and wry wisdom
Inside the Music
An insightful critic and a skilled jazz pianist in his own right, David Yaffe had the rare ability to parse both the mechanics and the mysteries of a song
One-Stop Shopper
Betty Halbreich, the personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, offered guidance to the doyennes of New York. Lena Dunham, her friend and client, pays homage to the legend, who recently died at 96
C. J. Sansom
The Scottish author created a new genre of literature—historical crime—and sold more than two million copies of his captivating Shardlake series
Ira von Fürstenberg
A princess by birth, the Italian socialite, who modeled and acted, sashayed between aristocratic, jet-set, and show-business worlds
Edward Jay Epstein
The investigative journalist made a career of questioning accepted narratives, from the Kennedy assassination to the Black Panthers to the diamond industry
Jane Birkin
Born in England and adopted by France—the singer, model, and muse, as seen through the eyes of her longtime friend and compeer