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Annals of the Internet

The Battle for Reddit’s Soul When the co-founder of the online forum—and husband of Serena Williams—walked away from his creation, he gave up billions. But what price for a clear conscience?

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Past is Prologue

Missionary Positions The Christian right spent millions to smear Dr. Mary Calderone, a 1960s sex-education activist. Now the issues Calderone campaigned for are under fire again—this time from the incoming Trump administration

Artistic License

The Afterlife of Pablo Paloma Picasso, who is taking control of her father’s estate, on defending the artist’s legacy from revisionists


Literary Muses

Of Course It Kills Them The secret inspiration for Ernest Hemingway’s greatest novel

Risky Business

Skiing and the Art of the Public Apology The Norwegian biathlete who confessed to cheating on his girlfriend during his Olympic bronze-medal speech follows in the footsteps of Bill Clinton, Jude Law, and countless others

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Polite Society

The Swan Who Was Spared The real reason Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, Truman Capote’s guest of honor at the Black and White Ball, was the only “swan” he didn’t betray

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The Music World

Lily Allen’s Revenge Era The star who redefined confessional pop—and aired the wreckage of her marriage on West End Girl—is now taking her show on the road

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Adventures in Publishing

The Truman Show For a young assistant at Random House in the summer of 1978, Friday afternoons meant one thing: babysitting Truman Capote

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But First …

The View from Here A man who solves economic crises as opposed to creating them, Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, is the perfect foil for Donald Trump

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Film

The Robin Hood of Art How did a British taxi driver abscond with a Goya masterpiece through a National Gallery toilet window? A new film starring Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent has the answer

Boom and Bust

When the Art World Lost Its Mind (and Money) NFTs once promised to revolutionize creativity and commerce. Four years later, the market has collapsed, fortunes have vanished, and the art scene is still reckoning with what it all meant


Eight Questions

High Noonan The Pulitzer Prize–winning political columnist Peggy Noonan discusses her note from Trump, the surprising reason why he is not a Neanderthal, and writing in Edmund Burke for president

Real-Estate Wars

Bleak House, New York–Style For a quarter-century, artists, activists, and plutocrats have been battling over the future of a former public school in the East Village. Is the end finally in sight?

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Past is Prologue

War Crimes Sixty years ago, a Russian poet inspired the creation of a Holocaust memorial at Babi Yar, in Ukraine. This year, a Russian missile strike nearly destroyed it

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friend of the devil

Edge Lord Literary agent John Brockman knows everybody who’s anybody in science. Thanks to him, so did Jeffrey Epstein

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Close-up

Frederik Bille Brahe Thirteen years ago, the Danish chef brought casual cool to Copenhagen’s fine-dining scene. Now he’s opened Daphne, his biggest restaurant yet

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Midtown Cowboy

The Wythe and Wherefores How an Americana brand grounded in craftsmanship and a distinctly Western sensibility came to be

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Lights Out!

Getting Into Bed With Cindy Crawford The supermodel and founder of Meaningful Beauty shares her nighttime routine

Real Estate for the 1 Percent

Pied-à-Terror! A new annual surcharge on New York’s luxury pieds-à-terre has the 1 percent crying robbery. But when has a tax ever actually driven the rich from Park Avenue?


NIMBY For The 1 Percent

It’s RH’s World Restoration Hardware, the high-end housewares company that recently rebranded as RH, is on a mission to colonize luxury cities. In Aspen, residents are drawing the line

Highlight

An American in Paris Wire acrobats, floating mobiles, wooden figures … Celebrating the centenary of Alexander Calder’s years living in the French capital, an exhibition presents more than 300 of his works

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