Claire Howorth

President Obama and Michelle Obama announced their support in a taped phone call to the vice president.

“Kelce is given to raw emotion, a fount of ‘Let’s fucking go’ and pro wrestling bravado,” Tom Kludt wrote in his 2023 Vanity Fair profile of Kelce. After last year’s super bowl, Kludt noted, Kelce “commandeered the postgame interview on Fox, first emitting a primal scream and then, while jabbing his finger at the camera, calling out anyone who doubted the Chiefs along the way.” Travis denied he pushed his coach on Sunday night, making a distinction between using force and “running up on him.” Ju…

And so Aguilar, who still calls his native Mexico City home—though he has properties in New York, Miami, and Madrid—brought to life the Casa Polanco, named for the posh neighborhood that sprang up with Spanish Colonial revival flare at the same time the house did, all around the tidy, rectangular Parque Lincoln, an easy stroll to the sprawling Chapultepec Park (one of the oldest urban green spaces in the world, at twice the size of Central Park). Casa Polanco took several years to design and ren…

Kohberger “stood silent” rather than pleading guilty or not guilty to the November 2022 murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.

A massive armchair with the contours of a tennis ball, a mystical bird mobile, and more luxury objects to light up your senses.

The ‘Succession’ star… isn’t sure… what to think about this... “compliment?”

There’s the Odeon, immortalized on the Vintage Contemporaries edition of Jay McInerney’s 1988 cokey opus Bright Lights, Big City. The Odeon gave birth to the Cosmo (the signature drink of Sex and the City, itself a McNallyist sort of artifact), kept generations of Saturday Night Live cast members fed and drunk, and will probably again be the un-cafeteria for media types who manage to keep their expense accounts. There was briefly Cherche Midi, and Pulino’s. There are Balthazar and Morandi and Mi…

When the going gets tough in these weird weeks, there is one caregiver who is always on call and never contagious: the screen. An apparently world-famous “mediatrician” (I’d never heard of him before last week) said that “screen-time limits are obsolete” in the coronavirus crisis; a professor-mom wrote wrote a piece for the NYT called “I Refuse to Run a Coronavirus Home School.” Not that I had ever shunned the screen, but it feels good to have an Rx for TV. Thanks to the streaming wars, there’s…

Photographer Guillermo de Zamacona captures the beautiful and endangered monarch butterfly—on film.Whatever became of the very hungry caterpillar? If he was lucky, he became one of the zillions of fluttering lovelies to adorn the models in photographer Guillermo de Zamacona’s exhibition “Project Mon…

You know that T-shirt that says, “Talk Nerdy to Me”? Well, Out of Print Clothing has come up with an appropriate response. Its line of book-cover T-shirts features the images of classic works of literature: The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger), Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut), and A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) are just a few of the titles emblazoned on soft, pre-washed tees. And if you think scooting around in a 1984 (George Orwell) tee isn’t “aware” enough, rest easy knowing tha…

St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village has been on life support for the past few years, its debt-ridden condition seemingly terminal, despite numerous resuscitation attempts from Village residents and New Yorkers who lobbied to keep the hospital open, not to mention spokesmanship from none other than Eli Manning, quarterback for the New York Giants. Last night, the hospital board failed to revive the patient; elective surgeries will cease later this month, with inpatient care to wind down by an unannounced date. If a bigger, richer facility swoops in to partner with St. Vincent’s, it could become an urgent care center; the likelier option is that the facility will close altogether.In Vanity Fair’s July 2008 issue, Christopher Hitchens, an earstwhile neighbor of St. Vincent’s, wrote a clarion column to save the old hospital, which opened in 1849 and treated survivors of the Titanic and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, as well as the victims of countless far less spectacular misfortunes

Photograph by Maude Schuyler Clay.When Barry Hannah died of a heart attack on Monday, he left behind a literary legacy that included eight novels—among them Geronimo Rex (1972) which was nominated for the National Book Award—and four short story collections, including the iconic Airships (1978) and High Lonesome (1996). Short fiction was his metier, and it earned him the PEN/Malamud Award in 2003, placing him in the company of John Updike, Saul Bellow, Richard Ford, and Joyce Carol Oates. In the…

Last night, Paramount finally awarded poor Walter Kirn a ticket to the 82nd Academy Awards after he took to Twitter to air his disappointment about not being invited. His plaintive tweet—“Caution to writers: don’t expect that because you write a novel that becomes an Oscar-nominated film that you’ll be invited to the Oscars”-- might have sounded whiny to some, but his anguish wasn’t exactly unwarranted. Would it have been fair to deny Kirn some Kodak Theater glory, considering he wrote Up in the…

Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead’s idiosyncratic novel about a Manhattan boy’s summers spent at his family’s beach house in a black enclave in the Hamptons, will leave you nostalgic for youth, and warmer weather. Jay McInerney’s stories in *[http://www.amazon.com/How-Ended-New-Collected-Stories/dp/0307268055″ target=“_blank”>How It Ended](</p><p>http://www.amazon.com/How-Ended-New-Collected-Stories/dp/0307268055) are cherrypicked from the course of the author’s glit-lit career—from coke-fueled Manh…

UNICEFs annual Snowflake Ball in New York City, which Barbara Bush chaired, pulled in a huge charitable collection.

Late this summer, Penguin, long a purveyor of iconic black-and-orange-themed paperbacks, introduced “Couture Classics.” The publishing house commissioned fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo to “dress” some of its best-selling heroines: Hester Prynne (The Scarlet Letter), Catherine Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights), and Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice). His baroque but modern designs give sultry new life to those familiar plots and characters. Last month, Penguin released Victorian novels, such as…

New York City publishing held something akin to the World Series of book parties last week.

“The Martus Maw” exhibition. From PatrickMcMullan.com. Last night, New York City’s Lower East Side got a strong dose of international glamour at Nicolas Pol’s art exhibition “The Martus Maw,” curated by Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld. Pol, a 32-year-old Parisian artist, is visiting the United States for the first time. What a nice little turnout for him, then: Jean Paul Gaultier, Mary-Kate Olsen (whose boyfriend, Nate Lowman, is a scene-y downtown artist), Tatiana Santo Domingo, Byrdie Bell, Stavros…

Claire Howorth:__ For people who associate you with____Black Hawk Downand* Killing Pablo*____, this will seem like a very different subject for you.__ *Mark Bowden:*The truth is, if you were to look at a sampling of my magazine work, over the last 25 years, primarily in the Philadelphia Inquirer, you’d see a great variety of subject matter. Police procedurals, which this is, in an odd way, are one of the categories that a lot of people—not just me—find fascinating. When you are investigating or…

After three weeks lacking rhythmical wit, The muse of the Jack-O-Lantern’s glowingly lit. A judge ruled against the birther iconoclasts. Limbaugh digs Gawker? Love among the bombasts. Levi Johnston has a broomstick but it’s no Halloween guise; Palin fans and children better shut their eyes... Sasha and Malia got the piggy vaccine. Paranormal Activity rules the big screen. Among other things going bump in the night Are Jude and Sienna? (It’s getting dull, right?) But she’ll need someone to turn t…