Dana White, the chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, is a fight promoter. That means the old saw “all publicity is good publicity” usually applies....
The archives of The New Yorker, housed at the New York Public Library, consist of more than 2,500 boxes of manuscripts, letters, page proofs, cartoons, art,...
A luxury hotel marries the exotic and the familiar: The location may be new and the fruits at the breakfast buffet varied, but the thread count...
Actors may deliver impassioned speeches about achieving their “childhood dreams,” but we don’t often hear about how those sculpting wounds with clay and bubbling skin with...
Political hot spots feature prominently in this week’s recommended books, with sobering views of conditions on the ground in Ukraine (“Looking at Women Looking at War”)...
In the 1990s, as her career was on the rise, a 20-something Posey told an interviewer that she was working on a screenplay. She was interested,...
Saar, whom White would eventually recruit to teach at Otis, grew up on the edge of Altadena in the 1930s and ’40s. Her neighborhood’s paperboy, she...
Season 3, Episode 1: ‘Same Spirits, New Forms’ Take a moment. Focus on your breathing. Calm your mind. Let the sounds of the external world fade...
THE LOVES OF MY LIFE: A Sex Memoir, by Edmund White Some people celebrate turning 85 with grandchildren, gardening or a nice cake. Edmund White has...
‘My Man Kono’ The New York Times once described Charlie Chaplin’s longtime assistant, Toraichi Kono, as “the keeper of his privacy.” An immigrant from Japan who...
