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Bonjour Paris!
Some good Frenchness; plus, Rosalia's gorgeous new album, no longer doin' it for the 'gram, a TikTok baroness, and more. A week and a half ago I was sitting on a bench in the Place des Vosges, watching a pigeon peck at some crumbs that had
The Belgian Episode
"Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French." -- Charles de Gaulle
Sure Shot
"I don't know what I would have done if I had to work for my living." -- Harry Benson
The Grapefruit Ladies of Ireland
"Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." -- John Lewis
Take Me Back to London
Lovely weather, lovely people, lovely places to not get stepped on looking at art. On Instagram, there is a trend toward photo-dumping, where you post a bunch of random, unedited photos from, say, your summer, and it all looks unfiltered and whatever-passes-for-real on the internet. I mulled over doing a
Speed Racer
"When you look at Max, you think he’s nice and polite and thoughtful, but what you probably don’t see is that he can be so competitive and he has a fierceness most people don’t expect." -- Robin Esterson
Cross My Heart, Megan Collins is a Masterful Thriller Writer
Every time I sit down to write another, I’m like, “Wait a minute, how do you write a thriller again?” --Megan Collins
Big 2025 Energy
"I must say I hope the coming year will be better than the last one, which, I think, was sheer hell." -- Edith Sitwell
Meet Tony DiTerlizzi
A conversation with illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, an iconic photo, and...a stegosaurus IPO?