Sam Kashner
Oscar Season
Mad, sad, and legendarily bad, Oscar Levant was the showbiz answer to Oscar Wilde. After being forgotten for decades, is Hollywood’s greatest wit ready for his comeback?
Before January 6, There Was Seven Days in May
J.F.K. was haunted by the book that outlined how a right-wing coup could happen in America. The movie still rivets audiences
The Spruce Deuce
Before Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, there was Howard Hughes and Jean Peters
The Flight of the “Concordski”
The espionage and secret history behind the Soviets’ attempt to build their own Concorde
Meditations on Crime
Listen and Read
Take a Seat!
Ann Getty’s storied tabletop collections are ripe for the bidding at Christie’s
Dreams in Progress
A new book celebrates Hollywood’s greatest behind-the-scenes photographer
Life Imitates Bruce Wagner
The true oral history of a fake oral history—and an audiobook that would make Pirandello proud
Lighter than Air
Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 short, “The Red Balloon,” is high art for all ages
Beauty Secrets of the Dead
Everybody who’s anybody—including fictional characters such as Succession’s Logan Roy—stops in at Frank E. Campbell’s eventually
Exiled in Style
Picasso, Chaplin, Churchill, Woolf—they all came to Villa Mauresque, in Cap Ferrat, W. Somerset Maugham’s well-appointed refuge from England’s sodomy laws
Bigger than Life
Tragedy! Triumph! Tinsel! One hundred years of the Hollywood sign
