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On a recent morning in midtown Manhattan, I walked to the back of the Whitby Hotel lobby to find Judith Light wearing large, resin-framed glasses and reading the New York Post. She was dressed all in black—pants and a long-sleeved shirt—her only nod to the sweltering summer heat outside a large, floppy, mud-colored straw hat […]

Twenty-two years ago, Texas Monthly, the venerable “national magazine of Texas,” published a ranking of the state’s fifty best barbecue joints. The magazine had named the state’s best barbecue before, but the Top Fifty was an extraordinary feat of carnivorousness—a massive inventory of smoked meat, involving hundreds of meals and uncountable thousands of miles—and it […]

In a recent interview, the writer Malcolm Gladwell said that one of his goals as an author is “to get people to take human psychology seriously and to respect the complexity of human behavior and motivations.” Gladwell, who has been a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, could offer a […]

Of all the Presidential hopefuls who have promised to oust Donald Trump in 2020, Steve Bullock, the governor of Montana, has perhaps the most compelling electoral record. In 2016, he was the only Democratic governor to be reëlected in a red state, winning by four points among Montanans, who had voted overwhelmingly for Trump. His […]

Tokyo is a city that exists equally in the past as it does in the future, with the balance between traditional and the modern world coexisting side-by-side within its present day metropolis – and the city’s newest hotel, Trunk(House) in Tokyo’s buzzing Kagurazaka neighbourhood, is the perfect reflection of this. The one-room boutique hotel has […]

Share 13th Sep 2019 Along with the fellow celebrity romance-obsessed among us, we’ve been tracking the budding relationship between Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello since their first on-screen moments together in the music video for their catchy collaboration, Señorita. Of course, many relationship milestone-adjacent moments have happened in the period since then, including an Instagram […]

Share 13th Sep 2019 Rihanna stormed New York Fashion Week with her Savage x Fenty lingerie show on 10 September, but in typically composed RiRi style, the fashion and music mogul was seen travelling conspicuously light when she touched down at JFK airport on Sunday morning, carrying just a micro handbag – inspired by a […]

Share 13th Sep 2019 The response to James Frey’s 2003 memoir is the stuff most authors only dream of. His unflinching retelling of his alcoholism, drug addiction and subsequent rehabilitation, aged just 23, spent 15 consecutive weeks on the bestseller list. Three years later, in 2006, controversy hit when it was revealed that Frey had […]

Each of the “Big Four” fashion capitals exudes a very particular mood, from Milan’s extravagance and sex appeal to Paris’s refined craftsmanship. And when it comes to London, it’s all about fearless imagination, with designers who specialise in tongue-in-cheek rebellion, outrageous displays and the blurring of the lines between art and commerce. Or so the […]

Just as he was graduating from high school, in 1990, Chris Moore had a fanciful idea. He had noticed increasing numbers of so-called sport kites arcing through the skies above his home town of Lenexa, Kansas, outside Kansas City, Missouri. A traditional kite is tethered to its operator by a single line, and is more […]