“Let’s start the tour at Frank Campbell,” Lindy Woodhead suggested, from the back seat of a limo. Woodhead—blond, vivacious, and ample—is the author of “War Paint,” a joint bio…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMMore than sixty years ago, the young Viscountess de Ribes, née Jacqueline Bonnin de La Bonninière de Beaumont, stood on the balcony of a friend’s Venetian palazzo. She was twenty-two, an…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 10:00PMColette started writing in her early twenties, and by the time she died, in 1954, at the age of eighty-one, she had published nearly eighty works: fiction, memoir, essays, drama, and collect…
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