Sunday cover!

New Yorkers: Please join me on Tuesday! Ariane Bankes is the daughter of one of the Paget sisters — twins who lived/worked/loved at the beating heart of literary-intellectual mid-20th-c Europe. A fascinating story. And I would love to see friendly faces (and get drinks after?). DM me if you’re in.

In 1970 I worked with Caterine Milinaire on a series of fashion spreads published in the New York Magazine. Looking back I always smile on how different my creation looks from "fashion," with surrealism figures living among them.

"The Fluids of Spring"
Illustrator: Barbara Nessim

Props to my main squeeze for imagining 2025 current events back in 2015.

Screengrab of a paragraph of an FT article reprising a New Yorker article of mine from almost twenty years ago, in which I made a guess as to what a postliterate society was going to feel like

From the "I told you so" department.

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I think it’s the lighting. We’ve got a blue dress/black dress scenario here.