book review
Sept. 17, 2021
The Magician Resists the Shallow Gestures of the Hollywood BiopicColm Tóibín’s new novel about Thomas Mann reaches for depths in its subject that mainstream film wouldn’t bother with.
reasons to love new york
Dec. 7, 2020
Farewell to My Go-to Ruth Reichl, Rumaan Alam, Jiayang Fan, and more on losing the place where they were a regular.
just browsing
Oct. 28, 2020
Novelist Rumaan Alam’s Week in Zillow Saves “Listen, I’d probably do bad things to get this house.”
celebrity shopping
Oct. 9, 2020
What Author Rumaan Alam Can’t Live Without “It tastes like candy, but it also tastes like virtue.”
reasons to love new york
Dec. 9, 2019
The 8 Million Reasons to Love New York A tribute to those inspiringly singular New Yorkers who wouldn’t — probably couldn’t — live anywhere else.
What Else Is There to Talk About Besides Money? I know that we have enough, even if it doesn’t free us from accounting that reminds us of that.
it’s all relative
Jan. 23, 2019
A Family in 6 Acts The writer Rumaan Alam answers the prompt: What is a family?
The Singular Magic of Maira Kalman At home with the beloved writer and illustrator.
Pining for Gucci in Trump’s New World Alessandro Michele has made life just a little bit brighter.
mansplaining
May 17, 2016
design hunting
Oct. 9, 2015
A Miami Beach Apartment That Matches the Ocean Architect Luca Andrisani brought a bit of Positano to Miami.
school of life
June 16, 2015
Working at Lucky Magazine Taught Me All About Writing Remembering the early days of the world’s best shopping magazine.
design hunting
Nov. 3, 2014
Tour a Surprising Family Home in Flushing O’Neill Rose Architects had a tall order: to create a single home in which three branches of the client’s family could live comfortably.
that old house
Oct. 9, 2014
Check Out This Brooklyn Brownstone That Feels Like a Loft Some brownstone dwellers make a fetish of period detail. Not the owners of this Cobble Hill home.
design hunting summer 2014
June 9, 2014
Great Rooms: Inside Designer Tia Cibani’s Chelsea Home Architect Winka Dubbeldam erases the borders between rooms and blurs the line between indoors and out.
May 21, 2014
Then: Cobble Hill in 1968 Forty-six years later, architect Dennis Holloway’s modular Superstairs system still looks ahead of its time.
Apr. 14, 2014
An Eclectic Family Compound in Quiogue Where an architect couple turned the volume “up to 11.”
Oct. 24, 2013
Three Architects on Their Earliest Works Richard Meier on the Lambert House, Zaha Hadid on the Peak Leisure Club, and UNStudio on the Karbouw.