HE DOES TALK PRETTY
Sedaris tells The Daily Beast that he doesn’t think of himself as a comedian, but that doesn’t stop this budding linguist (you read that right) from being our funniest essayist.
Sarah Moroz is a Franco-American journalist based in Paris. She covers a variety of cultural topics, including art, photography, literature, and travel.
DARKLY COMIC
The Pulitzer prize-winning author/illustrator/cartoonist talks about the inhospitable market for satire and his latest collaboration with the author Robert Coover.
HAUNTED HOUSE
Reporter Sara Gay Forden’s book “House of Gucci” is the basis for the new Ridley Scott movie. She talks about the family, working on the film, and those Chef Boyardee accents.
‘UN PEU FOU’
Paris’ Arc de Triomphe has been transformed into a monument ensconced in 25,000 square meters of silver polypropylene fabric—one of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s final works.
WUNDERKIND
In her first book, the acting/writing/directing powerhouse charts her unlikely path (it only seems inevitable in retrospect) to acclaim.
JUST TRY IT
The late culinary explorer’s longtime collaborator Laurie Woolever talks about how she compiled a posthumous atlas of Bourdainian culinary enthusiasms.
NO HERO
In “Khalil,” Yasmina Khadra explores the mind of a fanatic and the almost total absence of feeling at home anywhere in the world.
SELF-EXPRESSION
The HBO documentary, “Black Art: In the Absence of Light,” looks at the struggle of Black artists to have their work seen, and the multiplicity of identities present in their work.
CAST A COLD EYE
As proven in her latest collection, Didion is a peerless—and always self-aware—reporter, but she is also a seer, repeatedly foreseeing social trends years ahead of everyone else.
HAD ENOUGH
The young French writer Pauline Harmange proudly embraces misandry and makes a splash beyond the literary scene.
