Chloe Schama

How often do you finish a novel, only to find yourself flipping back to the first page and thinking, I really ought to start that all over again? Alina Grabowski’s debut Women and Children First, a new and remarkable book (out this week) from SJP Lit, Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint at Zando books, prompts that kind of reading. Set in a struggling New England town, the novel unfolds through interlocking stories—something like Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge or Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the…

This month, more than a hundred years after that premiere, a new iteration of Prometheus will unfold at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco—one that involves not just color but scent as well, with three distinct fragrances released at key moments throughout the performance. The effect intends to create an all-encompassing experience—and given that the myth of Prometheus describes nothing less than the triumph of human ingenuity against the brute forces of nature, a concert that seeks to elevat…

This fall, the fruits of those efforts, as well as those of his co-curator Suzanne Pagé, can be seen at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, where the first retrospective in France since 1999 has brought together some 115 works. The show, aptly titled “Mark Rothko,” will be up until April of next year. “Exhibiting such a broad, thorough, and representative set of works,” Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of LVMH, writes in the catalog, “is the fulfillment of a long-standing personal wish.” When…

“By the age of 8 most children have known someone with cancer. Children are very matter of fact, but if they do not ask a question it does not mean that they do not have a question.”

A handful of delightfully, lavishly assembled books—plus a scattering of memoirs, biographies, and other covetable volumes—offer options for thoughtful gifts this holiday season.

Netflix’s new show is set along the Southeast Asian “hippy trail” and dramatizes the crimes of real-life serial killer Charles Sobhraj.

When the Shed shut down in March, it was in the middle of staging a one-woman play recounting conversations with white men. In four weeks flat, the play has become a film.

When I was 20, my father took me to Paris. It wasn’t the first time we had visited the city, but it was the first time just the two of us had gone, and maybe because of that, certain details impressed themselves upon me: the macarons in our hotel room when we arrived, eating curbside oysters under a dripping awning, the hot chocolate at Angelina, and a parfumerie where the attendant looked like she had stepped out of Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. Paris in all its clichéd glory. The Anni…

Beach reads, anyone? We can only hope. No matter what the COVID-19 crisis does to our habitual summer pleasures, it still can’t deny us the pleasure of a good, escapist book. And this summer is packed with an overabundance of amazing books—fiction from some of our most beloved novelists, memoirs from inspiring women, and a dose of pure fantasy for those of us (all of us?) who can’t make it to Capri. All Adults Here by Emma Straub (May 4) Emma Straub’s All Adults Here is a book that delights in d…

You don’t want to make it seem like their lives are going to be turned upside down, except that maybe they are.