New York
But First …
The View from Here Out of Africa: How I escaped from war-torn Khartoum
Elements of Style
Queen of the Scene From working with Irving Penn and Richard Avedon in the 1960s to being directed by Luchino Visconti and Stanley Kubrick in the 1970s, Marisa Berenson has an elegance and charm that have never run out
Anatomy of a Scandal
Where the Wildensteins Are For more than a century, France’s Wildensteins reigned over their colossal art dynasty in near-total secrecy. Now the third court case in two decades threatens a precipitous fall for the family
Art’s Dark Horse
The Most Expensive Artist You’ve Never Heard Of Sanyu befriended Picasso and Giacometti yet died destitute. Today, he’s known as the “Chinese Matisse”
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.
Inspector Gadget
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
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
Anatomy of a Scandal
Abercrombie & Flinch Behind the preppy, all-American fashion brand was a sordid world of alleged exploitation and abuse of power
Britons on Broadway
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
