Saturday, Fourth of July weekend, lakeside with friends. Voices nearby are discussing the suddenly unsettled state of Western politics—in France, the UK, here in the US. Me, I’m gazing at …
Many months ago, when the British playwright Jez Butterworth was starting to ponder the subject for his next work, he was watching a spider build a web in the doorway …
Zoe sequences my microbiome using a technology called shotgun metagenomics, which maps DNA. I prefer Viome’s app and what my husband calls “user experience.” But I prefer my results from …
Earlier this year, the New York–based fashion designer Willy Chavarria sprayed Parfums de Marly’s Haltane on not just himself but on his models, the roses he left on the seats, …
I’m slick as an otter. I’m greased up like a Thanksgiving turkey. I have just left a face-shaped spot on my gingham linen pillowcase. My husband is asking me not …
Kamali has set up a study for herself in the house, the walls lined with racks of blouses organized in a muted rainbow; it’s more like a cozy boudoir than …
Three years ago, Francesco Clemente was in his Manhattan studio speaking with a friend, a devoted vegetarian, by phone. “She was asking me if we should go have a meal …
Recently, in the name of research, I found myself on a waterbed for the first time since elementary school. I put on a set of headphones, and the bed began …
Scherzinger is funny and confiding, with a rich sense of irony. Her portrayal of Norma won her the Olivier for best actress in a musical—but the snobbish surprise that greeted …
Every generation has its own Romeo and Juliet. For many, it was the (now controversial) 1968 Franco Zeffirelli adaptation, with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey in sumptuous Danilo Donati–designed period …