New York
Book Reviews
Something About Them
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?
Buttering the Croisette
Beating the System When every studio in Hollywood passed on Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola—the most successful movie director on the planet—became an independent filmmaker
The Tech Underbelly
Hell on Wheels Thousands of confidential files leaked by a Tesla employee reveal noxious working conditions, flawed technology, and a delusional, unstable C.E.O.
Elements of Style
For All Your Death-Defying Needs Whether you were Amelia Earhart, Ernest Hemingway, or a very hungover Clark Gable, the original Abercrombie & Fitch was the perfect store for adventurers of all stripes
Hocus POTUS
Popcorn Presidents The movies watched in the White House provide fascinating insights into the mindset—angry, affable, aggrieved—of its inhabitants
Eight Questions
An Afternoon with Thomas Mallon The author and editor of Gore Vidal discusses the influence of Mary McCarthy, his latest book, and the upcoming TV adaptation of his 2007 novel, Fellow Travelers
But First …
The View from Here How did Thames Water, the U.K.’s largest water company, turn a foolproof monopoly into a $20 billion money pit, leaving the country short on the very commodity it was responsible for supplying?
