Funny feuds and sky-high budgets – Vanity Fair in the 90s makes today’s journalism seem particularly bleak
Vanity Fair in the 90s makes today’s journalism seem particularly bleak - THE READING LIST: In his new memoir, illustrious ...
What Happened to Turtle Soup? How a Dish Became a Delicacy Then Disappeared
Turtle soup became a popular delicacy in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries, with the dish appearing on ...
Jim Jarmusch gets dark: Indie filmmaker reveals his latest artistic turn in L.A. show
A new exhibition of indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch's newspaper collages will open March 29 at the James Fuentes gallery in Los Angeles, showing off a darker side.
The American Picture Book’s Unsung Parent: Japan
Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...
When The Going Was Good by Graydon Carter: No limit on expenses. Interest-free home loans. And 'the best eyebrow lady' in New York every month!
The former editor of Vanity Fair recalls the hedonism of the magazine's glory days in a deliciously gossipy memoir.
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Barnes & Noble, a bookstore, is back in the business of selling books
Barnes & Noble hopes to capture some of the magic. Its bookstores offer “exclusive editions” of new releases, which ...
Answer Their Questions, Come Away With Your Next Book
A quiz that delivers reading recommendations helps bookworms find their next reads. Not long ago, Jennifer Harlan, an editor ...
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Graydon Carter reflects on the golden age of magazines in ‘When the Going Was Good’
Graydon Carter rose through the ranks at Time, Life, Spy, The New York Observer and Vanity Fair, becoming known for his sharp ...
The One Book That Explains Our Current Era Was Written 40 Years Ago
Typically the work of a professor with an aptitude for speaking to a general readership, this sort of book hits just as ...
Was it actually Yoko whose career was derailed by the Beatles?
David Sheff’s new biography, “Yoko,” digs deeply into the artist’s life and offers a welcome reassessment of her place in ...
The New Yorker6d
The Deaths—and Lives—of Two Sons
The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then ...
Next City8d
‘At the Gates of Hell’: Revisiting an NYC Nurse’s Pandemic Journal, Five Years Later
Manhattan borough historian Robert W. Snyder’s new book offers a window into the lives of essential workers at the epicenter ...