Books and Literature

October 14, 2016

Celebrating 35 Years of Carolina Herrera

On Thursday evening, Omar’s, a members-only dining club on West Ninth Street, was filled to its wood-paneled, mirrored brim with a cross section of New York […]
October 5, 2016

Cultural Studies: The Rise of the ‘Bromosexual’ Friendship

A recent ad for the Bravo TV show “Shahs of Sunset” finds two of its male stars lazing on lounge chairs at the beach. Amid a […]
October 4, 2016

Rites of Passage: No. 1 in America

Rites of Passage By LEE CHILD Objectively I was one of the luckiest humans ever born. In 1954, Britain was a stable postwar liberal democracy, at […]
May 14, 2016

A British Power Broker Sets His Sights on Washington

By SARAH WILDMAN May 13, 2016 WASHINGTON — “Nothing in this room is off the record,” Juleanna Glover, a corporate consultant, warned the stragglers assembled in the kitchen […]
April 23, 2016

Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule

By PENELOPE GREEN April 23, 2016 One morning in early March, Kyli Ledesma, a 20-year-old barista from San Diego, woke up at 3:30 so she could drive to […]