Political conventions are a four-day triumph of form over content. While the candidates' sartorial choices might seem trivial at a moment of war and economic insecurity, the masterminds behind such political events place a very fine point on the ...
In the predictable universe of the illness memoir, doctors save by diagnosis and fail by misdiagnosis, alleviate symptoms or unintentionally increase them, order too many tests or refuse to test enough. Patients are the authors of these accounts, but ...
As Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign approaches its end, what are the implications for feminism of the first major presidential campaign by a woman? We asked New Republic senior editor Michelle Cottle, who has been covering the Clinton campaign, ...
Julia Turner: Amanda, thanks for joining me once again to discuss this year's Oscar frocks. I was going to start by asking you who had the best dress, but we can narrow it down a bit tonight: Who had the best black dress, and who had the best red ...
Fans of the show "24," or anyone who has followed the recent controversy surrounding its portrayal of torture, may have been understandably surprised by a mid-summer announcement by Fox network executives: The series--whose co-creator and executive ...
The term Lite-Brite fashion may call to mind cheap novelty gimmicks like the flashing T-shirts favored by club kids, not the handiwork of a respected high-end designer. But this year, Hussein Chalayan, the nutty professor of fashion, produced a handful ...
In late August, at the unveiling of the massive, awe-inspiring stained-glass window designed by the artist Gerhard Richter for Cologne Cathedral in Germany, the city’s conservative archbishop, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, was notably absent. Though ...
Wednesday marked the start of New York Fashion Week (Sept. 5-12), during which designers will display their spring 2008 collections. In 2006, as Fashion Week descended upon New York City, Amanda Fortini began to wonder how the semiannual ritual began. ...
Writing in his journal, magazine editor and writer Leo Lerman once remarked that dining with Rebecca West was like "lunching with the most brilliant gossip column in the world—everything from hating George Bernard Shaw to the sex life of the ...
In the Broadway production of Joan Didion's celebrated memoir, the character Joan Didion is a woman with a mania for order and precision. She is a woman who prefers to be in control. After her husband, John Gregory Dunne, dies of a heart attack in ...
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