The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part II
Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller’s Marilyn: A Biography sold more copies than anything Mailer ever wrote. He also believed it cost him a Nobel Prize
There’s No Place Like Ontario Place
Once home to a public park and architectural marvels, an island off the shore of the idyllic Lake Ontario is being turned into a big-budget spa, to the ire of some locals
Is Everyone Doing Peptides Without Me?
They’re so commonplace that you’d almost forget their potential danger. Here’s what you need to know before injecting yourself
Malta’s Day in the Sun
With Italy and Greece overrun by tourists, the English-speaking Mediterranean island that Queen Elizabeth once called home is a suitably low-key—and culture-packed—alternative
The Year of Magical Eating
In an interview, Stanley Tucci lays bare his relationship with grief, his battle with oral cancer, and his new memoir chronicling a year of meals
The Spy Who Dressed Me
During World War II, one of London’s most prominent fashion designers led a secret life as head of an espionage unit operating behind German lines
The Duchess of Excess
Once described as “the greatest single threat to the monarchy,” Sarah Ferguson—ex-wife of disgraced royal Andrew—has lived a life defined by scandal, debt, and sexual high jinks
The Root of All Evil
Did a bizarre experiment using modern medical technology to reveal the secrets of demonic possession unleash a deadly curse on its participants?
Fact Is Fiction
In an interview, Colson Whitehead discusses his new novel, Crook Manifesto, cancel culture, and why he avoids reading contemporary fiction
Shake, Rattle, and Roll
The finest point-and-shoot Leica available gets an upgrade! A Bang & Olufsen speaker that will move you to your core! See through the earbud marketing gimmicks—grab yourself a transparent pair! And more …
Dancing with Light
In his Paris studio—and in time for a sweeping new retrospective in Spain—Paolo Roversi, the photographer of Rei Kawakubo, Kate Moss, and Stella Tennant, reflects on a lifetime of looking
Pasolini’s Inferno
A fellow persecuted Italian intellectual revisits the little-remembered trials and tribulations that the writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini withstood in the name of his art—up until the end
Raiders of the Lost Arcade
Dick and Jeannette Seaver befriended Samuel Beckett in Paris, marched with Allen Ginsberg in Chicago, and introduced readers to radical books of all stripes
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part IV
Norman Mailer snubbed Lawrence Schiller when accepting the Pulitzer Prize for The Executioner’s Song. But that didn’t stop Schiller from cutting Mailer in on his latest exclusive: Lee Harvey Oswald’s K.G.B. files
Assignment: Sinatra Part IV
Talese turns in “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”—one of the most memorable profiles in magazine history—and worries about the reaction from editor and subject
The Billionaire vs. the Beckhams
David and Victoria Beckham thought they could win the public-relations war with their son Brooklyn—but they didn’t reckon on the sharp practices and bullying personality of his father-in-law, Nelson Peltz
