By Jim Kelly
There is no more infamous spy ring than the Cambridge Five, the group of friends who met at Cambridge University in the 1930s, were recruited by Soviet agents, and then proceeded to feed intelligence…
By Jim Kelly
Liaquat Ahamed won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for Lords of Finance, his account of how four central bankers helped bring about READ ON
By Eve Eismann
Summer Lovers (1982) is the cinematic embodiment of the song “Summer Nights,” from Grease (1978), which makes sense considering READ ON
Dreaming in Pigalle: the Suite Dalí at Bus Palladium.
By Alexander Lobrano
Arriving at Bus Palladium at the end of a sunny spring afternoon, I was thrilled to see a familiar vertical, two-word…
By Sarah Hyde
Helen Bain writes like John Constable painted: each minute detail is observed and rendered, creating a complete and magnificent READ ON
By Carolina de Armas and Ann Schneider
The Spice Girls’ requirements for any prospective lover were famously extensive—and perhaps a touch excessive. “Forget my past.” Sure. “Make it fast.” No…
By Gracie Wiener
On a Tuesday afternoon in New York City —77 degrees Fahrenheit with a slight overcast—the day resembles Mark Rothko’s No. 11. READ ON
By Spike Carter
**Under the Sun, Vol. 2, Ferrari **drifts between past and present and “between the roar of engines and the silence after ignition,” READ ON
By Jeanne Malle
Those who give New York restaurants less than favorable reviews often sound like a broken record (“too expensive,” “too loud,” READ ON
By Barry Blitt
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A protester in Tehran waves an Iranian flag in front of a billboard depicting Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz, May 5, 2026.
By Romesh Ratnesar
As Donald Trump’s ill-considered war on Iran slouches toward an endgame, spare a thought for the conflict’s biggest losers: the Iranian people. In early January, amid a crackdown on anti-regime demonstrations, Trump urged Iranians to “KEEP…
A poster of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, seen amidst the rubble following a 7.8 earthquake in February of 2023.
By Suzy Hansen
I decided to write my book From Life Itself in 2018 out of a sense of disorientation. I’d spent a decade living in Istanbul, Turkey,…
George Michael at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards, where he received the Video Vanguard Award for the music videos from his debut solo album, Faith.
By Sathnam Sanghera
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his year marks…
By Paulina Prosnitz
Heywood Hill, the storied Mayfair bookstore known to be the favorite of magazine royalty (Graydon Carter, Anna Wintour) READ ON
The death of Isak Andic has caused chaos at Mango—which is not the only Spanish fashion dynasty to fall victim to a succession drama.
By Katie Gatens
Wearing tortoiseshell glasses and a tweed blazer, Isak Andic didn’t look much like a…
Mum’s the word.
By Andrew Lownie
The man formerly known as Prince Andrew may be sweating this weekend. On Thursday documents concerning his appointment as the special representative for trade in…
“My parents realized that if one is to truly cultivate a passion for something, one needs to arrive at that on their own.”
By Jeanne Malle
When the art dealer Edmondo di Robilant co-founded Robilant…
The filmmaker at work, in a still from Louis Malle, le Révolté.
By Joan Juliet Buck
Louis Malle, one of the most talented and controversial film directors of the 20th century, was drawn to taboos as surely as kids are drawn to…
By Eve Eismann
Don’t let this silent film’s 1920 release date deter you: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari will have you READ ON
By Jennifer Gould
It was only a matter of time before Taek Jho Low asked the White House for a pardon. Low, the Malaysian-born Wharton School dropout, better known as Jho Low, is…
“So many were looking at it as a second home to their homes in the Hamptons.”
By Andrew Zucker
Every summer, the .1 percent packs their cars—or their helicopters—and ventures to the eastern tip of Long Island. For many, that…
Bertrand Russell, the Nobel Prize–winning English philosopher and logician who studied and taught at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
By Tim Bouverie
Strange as it may seem in this philistine age, there was a time when academics were regarded as pillars of society. In Britain between the 1940s and the 1980s, university professors, especially those from Oxford and Cambridge, were…
By Alec Lobrano
“Summer is such a rich season for cookingLebanese food, because our kitchen contains so many salads and grain and vegetable dishes READ ON
By Jim Kelly
George Washington Plunkitt may not be the most corrupt politician in New York’s history, but thanks to READ ON
Marilyn Monroe, photographed by George Barris on Santa Monica Beach, 1962. It would be her final photo session.
By Kim Morgan
It’s July 13, 1962, and there’s Marilyn Monroe on the beach in Santa Monica with a curious expression. I’m looking at her right now. Her blond hair is mussed,…
By Barry Blitt
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June is busting out all over—finally!
By Marcellus Hall
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By Catherine Scott
I have no business (and even less desire) to be in thekitchen, but these Spanish knives make a compelling READ ON
By Barry Blitt
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By Gracie Wiener
What do Marie Antoinette and Carlos Alcaraz have in common? They share the same jeweler. Well, kind of. Founded in 1613 in Paris’s