Hey, Washington: Tyler Brûlé Hates Your Purple Tie
Jet-setting magazine editor Tyler Brûlé hates the color purple for the same reason Washington loves it: Neutrality.
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If you would like something uplifting with your Wednesday, but also something heartbreaking, there is perhaps no better new long-form option than Jacob Bernstein's tribute to his late mother for The New York Times Magazine.
Jet-setting magazine editor Tyler Brûlé hates the color purple for the same reason Washington loves it: Neutrality.
On magazine stands in America the cover of Cosmpolitan's blaring sex tips are — though crass — commonplace. But what about in India? Or in the Middle East?
The New York Times Magazine took a look at how Chuck Klosterman was doing as their new Ethicist through his first five columns, and so far people are having a hard time with agreeing with him.
Washington D.C. is a weird city that keeps giving us bizarre, extreme examples of what Franklin Foer referred to in this week's New York Times Magazine as the "social Ponzi scheme."
The author and critic confirms he'll be taking over the column after Ariel Kaminer left the post in April, saying, 'this is a job I've wanted for 10 years.'
There's a delightful little post on The New Yorker's Page-Turner blog in which author Thomas Beller has his iPhone stolen by kids in New Orleans that reminded us of a delightful little New York Times essay from 2006 in which Thomas Beller dropped his iPod on New York City subway tracks.
People are abuzz about the New York Times Magazine profile of Robert Caro, biographer of Lyndon Johnson, which somehow makes exciting the details of the exhaustive research Caro undertook to better understand his subject through the five volume, decades-long project.
Fresh from his trip to the bottom of the ocean, James Cameron gets The New York Times Magazine Q&A treatment this week, and when reaching for metaphors he, unsurprisingly, sounds pretty nautical.
The New York Times Magazine's Matt Bai has a new story featuring an in depth interview with Scott Ritter, the U.N. weapons inspector who loudly questioned our reasons for entering the Iraq War and who was later convicted in an underage sex sting.
It took Lana Del Rey a month to go from a "wack-a-doodle chick" to the "perfect antidote" to other pop stars according to a profile in T: The New York Times Style Magazine by Jacob Brown, which described the singer as "a skinnier Adele, a more stable Amy Winehouse."
It's that time of year when the internet pours forth with top 10 rankings on everything from movies to moments to celebrity babies-to-be, and culture writer Dan Kois has written in the New York Times Magazine a humorous but earnest defense of the "top 10 list" trope. He's done it, though -- of course -- in the form of a top 10 list.
The New York Times Magazine has posted a personal essay that will be unsettling to those of you who just can't stop tweeting.
Should prominent illegals get a pass while less famous people get screwed?
Hugo Lindgren's first issue as editor drew scrutiny over the weekend
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