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
The Riling Class
Before the British Invasion, there was the satire boom. Its ground zero was a grotty strip joint turned nightclub in Soho that Peter Cook re-christened “the Establishment”
From The Office to the Lab
Lee Eisenberg knows funny. But he and his wife, Emily Jane Fox, learned a lot working together on Lessons in Chemistry
Good Help Is Hard to Find
Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter’s cult masterpiece, The Servant, turns 60
In Search of Misspent Youth
Hormones, horsepower, and hamburgers: the making of American Graffiti
Swan Song
Truman Capote’s social suicide by novel: the story behind the new mini-series Feud: Capote vs. the Swans
A Cinematic Séance
Peter Bogdanovich interviewed all the greats, from Hitchcock to Tarantino. Now you can hear the top filmmakers of the 21st century commune with the giants of Old Hollywood
One-Frame Films
Set photographer Alfonso Avincola captured some of the 20th century’s greatest actors, from the divas of Italian neo-realism to the Young Turks of New Hollywood
Suffering with Style
A brief history of the Borsalino—from Al Capone to Indiana Jones, Bogart to Gatsby
Hillbilly Elegy Revisited
Was J. D. Vance’s best-selling memoir the work of a single author with an unbelievable life story—or did it take a village?
