Changing Places
Linda Fairstein put Yusef Salaam in prison for the attack on the Central Park jogger. He was exonerated and is running for office; she is excoriated and living as a pariah
The Last Front-of-House Man
For five decades, Ken Aretsky has defied New York restaurant odds by making charm, simplicity, and elegance the first orders of business
A Night Celebrating Sloane Crosley
Salman Rushdie, Griffin Dunne, Naomi Fry, Gary Shteyngart, and others gathered at the Waverly Inn in celebration of the writer’s new memoir
The Peacock Orthodoxy
At the men’s-wear trade show Pitti Uomo, in Florence, fanatics have been turning out in their finest kit since 1972. Can their traditionalist leanings endure the tides of fashion? Well, they already have
High Life, Low Life
In his new book, the photographer Dafydd Jones captures a bygone New York, an era of new and old money, La Grenouille and Le Cirque
The View from Here
As the once great Sports Illustrated withers, a former editor reflects on the profligate larks and obtuse decisions that reduced Time Inc. to a punch line
The View from Here
Oligarchs such as Boris Berezovsky thought they’d created a post-Soviet puppet, but Putin outgrew his wealthy mentors and then destroyed them
Practice Makos Perfect
Christopher Makos showed Andy Warhol how to use his first camera. He also cemented Warhol’s existence as the personification of the “American brand”
Catherine Lacey
The author discusses her latest novel, a fictionalized biography of a “Frankenstein’s monster of 20 artists and 20 writers” whom she admires, from Kathy Acker to Susan Sontag
