Books and Literature

July 1, 2024

5 Places to Visit in Baltimore, Maryland, With John Waters

The writer and director, famous for making theatergoers squirm in their seats, says he feels most at home wherever the outsiders gather in his native city. […]
June 28, 2024

Van Cleef & Arpels Displays Its History

An exhibition of some 70 pieces from its archive marks the publication of a book on the first half of the jeweler’s history. High jewelry houses […]
April 24, 2024

New York Botanical Garden Creates a ‘Wonderland’ Adventure

This article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are striving to offer their visitors more to see, do and feel. Rabbits appear […]
April 22, 2024

How to Age Fingernails, and Other Tips From a Movie Makeup Book

Emily Schubert has done makeup and prosthetics on movies like “The Sweet East” and “Good Time.” She shares her tricks in a new book with A24. […]
April 19, 2024

Harvard’s Taylor Swift Scholars Have Thoughts on ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

The students taking Harvard University’s class on the singer are studying up. Their final papers are due at the end of the month. Fans of Taylor […]
April 18, 2024

Party Like It’s 1989

In the 1980s and ’90s, Dafydd Jones’s party shots captured Manhattan’s rich and powerful. Nine years ago, while recovering from a serious health crisis, the British […]
April 12, 2024

Salman Rushdie Is Again the Toast of Literary Manhattan

Nearly two years after he was stabbed, he was in fine form as he greeted his fellow writers at a party celebrating his candid memoir, “Knife.” […]
April 3, 2024

‘Modern Love Podcast’: The Second Best Way to Get Divorced, According to Maya Hawke

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Reva Goldberg and Pat McCusker, Rowan Niemisto, Dan Powell and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify ‘My parents got divorced when I was a […]
March 27, 2024

‘Modern Love Podcast’: How to Be Real With Your Kids

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Reva Goldberg and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify ‘I really would want to interrogate anybody’s experience of so-called unconditional love because […]
March 21, 2024

The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance

Arturo Schomberg Eugene O’Neill Gwendolyn Bennett James Weldon Johnson Eva D. Bowles W.E.B. Du Bois Mary White Ovington Regina Anderson Carl Van Doren Charles S. Johnson […]