The Write Stuff
An inter-office memo highlighting Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s inherent racism reveals Toni Morrison to have been as fierce an editor as she was a writer
Join the Jet Set
A private plane with its own parachute! A digital camera that will make your hair stand on end! Earphones designed to improve the sound quality around you! And more …
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss a new edition of John Gregory Dunne’s quasi-divorce memoir, an investigation into a Manhattan-art-gallery scandal, and a short-story collection capturing life in northern China
Hello, Doctor?
For just $100, a new online concierge service will connect the procedure-curious with some of the world’s top plastic surgeons and dermatologists
The New Swampland?
Since 2020, branches of restaurants from New York, Los Angeles, London, Mexico City, and elsewhere have opened in Miami. But the bubble may be ready to pop
Face Value
A new exhibition cracks open The Face’s archives, featuring more than 200 images from the pages of the pre-eminent culture-and-style magazine of 1980s London
Whitney Peak
Once a part-time Wendy’s employee, the 22-year-old actress is now starring in the next Hunger Games movie and making her stage debut alongside Pamela Anderson
A Tale of Two Beans
Two years after its unveiling, at the base of a Manhattan luxury tower, Anish Kapoor’s smaller “bean” is way more controversial than its Chicago predecessor
