The King Is Dead
With his extravagant designs, Paul Poiret ruled the world of fashion—until modern simplicity did him in.
Book Review
The Other Elizabeth Taylor
Editor’s Choice: The late English writer is overdue for the recognition and readers she deserves.
Hard to Swallow
The gourmet’s ongoing failure to think in moral terms
Literary Companion
How Edmund Wilson made the labor of criticism into an art
His Second Act
Editor’s Choice: How Frank Sinatra staged the most spectacular comeback in American cultural history
New Fiction
Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Think of England
Ian McEwan’s new novella evokes his homeland’s natural beauty and the straitened sexual manners of the early 1960s.
Babes in the Woods
Anybody could be tracking your children online. Even me.
If This Is a Man
Primo Levi’s Holocaust memoirs stand among the best literature of the 20th century, but his greatest creation was himself.
Where Mother Saw Best
Editor’s Choice: how a revolution in American domestic architecture put women in command