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Andrew O’Hagan’s Bonfire of the Vanities

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story ​​In the last years of the nineteenth century, the social reformer Charles Booth set out to create a record of working-class life in Victorian London. “Life and Labour of the People…

Adrian Tomine’s “Eternal Youth”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Regardless of parents’ attempts to be cool, there comes an age at which their children find everything about them mortifying. For the cover of the June 24, 2024, issue, the cartoonist…

Restaurant Review: One Weird Night at Frog Club

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Even if I wanted to go back to…

How “The Real World” Created Modern Reality TV

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One spring day in 1992, Eric Nies, a twenty-year-old model from New Jersey, walked into a swanky SoHo loft that he shared with six other young people. In the kitchen, he…

Bela Borsodi’s Luminous Images of Children and Their Drawings

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Nothing describes children’s drawing in general better than the term realism,” Georges-Henri Luquet wrote in his classic study, “Le Dessin Enfantin” (“Children’s Drawings”), from 1927. Fourteen years earlier, Luquet—who also wrote…