Marc Jacobs’s Brazilian Bombshell
At home, work, and play with Lorenzo Martone, the first husband of fashion.
The Red Carpet Campaign
[Not single-page] Inside the singular hysteria of the Academy Awards race.
The Junior Meritocracy
Should a child’s fate be sealed by an exam he takes at the age of 4? Why kindergarten-admission tests are worthless, at best.
The Rise of Dog Identity Politics
[Not single-page] Dogs are increasingly rootless souls, country bumpkins in city apartments. But is a vegan pup still an animal?
Remembrances of the Punk Prose Poetess
Patti Smith, along with her friend Robert Mapplethorpe, lived a particular New York dream–the Chelsea Hotel, Max’s Kansas City, CBGB, superstardom–to the fullest. Now in a great new memoir, she tells it like it was.
Saint Elizabeth and the Ego Monster
Excerpt from “Game Change”: A candidate whose aides were prepared to block him from becoming president. A wife whose virtuous image was a mirage. A mistress with a video camera. Inside the John Edwards triangle, nothing was too crazy to be true. By John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
The Ferality Show
This was the decade when the bottom fell out of just about everything — including the idea of authority itself. Is it any wonder that we all started screaming at one another?
Obama Lost, Obama Found
How the president finds his way out of the woods.
Repeat Defender
After taming crime in Los Angeles, Bill Bratton has won over the skeptics who doubted his success in New York. But all he really wants is his old job back.
I Dream of Diane
What do you do with the grief and guilt when your wife drives the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway with a van full of kids and a body full of alcohol, and ends up in a crash that kills eight? You put her in a shrine.