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Pictured above: Hailey Beiber In the midst of New York Fashion Week, Alexander Wang and Bulgari took advantage of the burgeoning fashion atmosphere of the period, holding the launch for their Serpenti Through the Eyes of Wang capsule handbag collection on September 7. Enlisting a comprehensive roll call of A-list guests—such as Hailey Bieber, Offset, […]

Salman Rushdie’s Fantastical American Quest Novel

September 12, 2019 | News | No Comments

Listen with: iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, talks with Salman Rushdie about “Quichotte,” his apocalyptic quest novel. A few years ago, when the four hundredth anniversary of “Don Quixote” was being celebrated, Rushdie reread Cervantes’s book and found himself newly engaged by a much-improved translation. He immediately began thinking of […]

The Misplaced Feminism of Ms. Monopoly

September 12, 2019 | News | No Comments

In 1906, Lizzie Magie, a feminist writer, activist, and game designer, who was then forty years old, placed an ad for herself as a “young woman American slave.” She was, she wrote, “intelligent, educated, refined; true; honest, just, poetical, philosophical; broad-minded and big-souled, and womanly above all things.” A petite brunette with “gray-green eyes” she […]

The Buried Promise of the Reconstruction Amendments

September 11, 2019 | News | No Comments

Over the past several decades, Eric Foner, a professor emeritus of history at Columbia, has established himself as one of the preëminent historians of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In 1988, he published “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877,” which became a standard history of the period. “The Fiery Trial,” his story of Lincoln’s relationship to […]

How John Bolton Got the Better of President Trump

September 11, 2019 | News | No Comments

The first time I met John Bolton, on a frigid morning last February, I asked him the obvious question: How could he work for a President with whom he disagreed about almost everything? He was ready with an answer. “The President knows where I stand on all the issues, because he watched me on Fox […]