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HUGO HAMILTON AUTOBAHN
On the Autobahn outside Frankfurt. November. The fields were covered in a thin sheet of snow.
WITH THE MOSTEST
The very rich hours of Pamela Harriman.
EYES WIDE SHUT
How Monet shared a private world.
SORRY I'M NOT YOUR CLOWN TODAY
Bowen Yang's trip to Oz, by way of conversion therapy and S..N.L.”
JOY RIDE
Grant Petersen wants to preserve the craft, and delight, of cycling.
LET'S HAVE A LONG TALK ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP JUST BEFORE BED!
Babe, are you nodding off? I know we’re both exhausted after a long day, a dinner party at which you made a three-word comment that left me feeling like you don’t know me at all, and the subsequent ninety-minute fight that culminated in a tentative truce.
TRY IT ON
How Law Roach reimagined red-carpet style.
MIRROR IMAGES
‘A Different Man” and The Substance.”
OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY
Proximity to wealth proves perilous in Rumaan Alam’ novel Entitlement.”
Sniff Test - A maverick perfumer tries to make his mark on a storied fashion house.
What does conspicuous consumption smell like? On a December afternoon in 2013, the Parisian perfumer Francis Kurkdjian was scheduled to meet with the renowned French crystal manufacturer Baccarat at the company’s chandelier-crammed headquarters, near the Arc de Triomphe. The C.E.O. at the time, Daniela Riccardi, had commissioned Kurkdjian to create a limited-edition fragrance to mark the company’s two-hundred-andfiftieth anniversary. Baccarat planned to produce two hundred and f ifty diamond-cut crystal flacons of the new perfume, priced at three thousand euros each, and wanted the scent to reflect the quality and opulence of its vessel.
Tales from the New World
The novelist Richard Powers considers our changing earth.
LAST COFFEEHOUSE ON TRAVIS
For a few months, I stayed with my aunt's friend in Midtown, back when she could still afford to live there.
Screams from a Marriage
‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.”
Land of the Flea
What America 1s buying and selling.
How We Got the Story
This five-part series, which includes this three-part series on how we got the story, is the result of a two-year investigation, involving dozens of legal filings, scores of interview requests, several interviews, innumerable Zoom meetings, and five 311 calls.
The Post-Moral Age
If conscience is merely a biological artifact, must we give up on goodness?
People of the Magazine
Jewish Currents wants to criticize Israel while holding on to Jewishness.
The Show Must Go On
What if Ronald Reagan’ Presidency never really ended?
The Mystery of Pain
Garth Greenwell’s novel of extreme affliction and ordinary happiness.
Fly with Me
The children’s books of Katherine Rundell.
AFFINITY COMEDY
The state of the Netflix standup special.
BE HER GUEST
The plush ambience of Ina Garten's good fortune.
WILD THING
MJ Lenderman resists the smoothing, neutering effects of technology.
THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT
An audience with the Pope.
LUCK OF THE DRAW
Nate Silver argues that poker can help us game our uncertain world.
GREEN SLEEVES
“What I want to know,” the woman said to the therapist, “is why the voices always say mean, terrible things.
EVERY OBITUARY'S FIRST PARAGRAPH
Alfred T. Alfred, whose invention of the plastic fastener that affixes tags to clothing upended the tag industry and made him one of America’s youngest multimillionaires—until he lost his plastic fastener fortune in a 1993 game of badminton, as depicted in the Lifetime original movie “Bad Minton”— died on Saturday. He was eighty-one.
DUTY DANCING
How Seamus Heaney wrote his way through a war.
DESPERATELY SEEKING
The supreme contradictions of Simone Weil.
SPREADING THE WEALTH
Why a young heiress asked fifty strangers to redistribute her fortune.