The Battle of the Plastics
Credit-card companies are battling for affluent young customers with increasingly lavish, one-of-a-kind experiences. How long can it last?
When Ulysses Came to New York
How Bennett Cerf, the co-founder of Random House and famed publisher of Eugene O’Neill and Truman Capote, brought James Joyce’s controversial novel to the U.S.
Landing Gear
A smart-looking smartwatch; the razor giving new life to a stalwart of the shaving industry; headphones that make listening to music feel like a vice; and more
Ignacio Mattos’s Guide to Punta del Este
The Uruguayan chef and restaurateur behind New York’s Estela, Lodi, and Altro Paradiso shares his favorite spots in the seaside city
Law & Hoarders
Big Law Gets Bigger
Paul, Weiss once embraced a variety of civic-minded causes. Today, the law firm seems more focused on its own bottom line
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
The British Are Coming!Operation Mincemeat—the Olivier Award–winning West End musical about a W.W. II–era deception operation that fooled the Nazis—is taking Broadway by storm
Eye of the Beholder
As we peel off the layers and parade into spring, will we bare our body hair or banish it for good? Our brave beauty columnist goes bushwhacking …
Winds of Change
Comporta, Portugal, sits on the last undeveloped stretch of Atlantic Ocean coastline in Southern Europe. Will developers and tourists ruin it?
Arts and Drafts
Five years after leaving New York magazine, Adam Moss discusses the state of media today, how he fills his days, and his new book about art
Sore Losers
A collection of songs for people who’ve turned on themselves, by self-critical artists such as the Buzzcocks, Lyle Lovett, Jackie Ross, and more
Eye of the Beholder
Thanks to Jane Fonda’s Workout, leotards and leg lifts became enduring cultural phenomena. Forty years after the video’s debut, Fonda is still astonished that it worked
