Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.

Born on July 21. 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway was the second-oldest of six siblings. His mother was a local musician who taught him to play the cello while his father brought him out to the family’s ...

Sophie Oliver guides us inside the remarkable home of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas in Paris and focusses on the material objects they cherished as a window onto their world. Show more Sophie ...

With apologies to Gertrude Stein, a rose is not just a rose—at least not in the land of beauty. The best rose perfumes ...

The co-founder of Paper magazine recounts Kim Kardashian’s famous photo shoot and serving Jackie Kennedy.

“Family friend” Gertrude Stein and her paramour Alice Toklas (equally dead) also pop up, uninvited (much to Etta’s dismay). Their mission: to settle once and for all how the “friendship ...

From decadent truffles to artistic assortments, we found the 28 best Valentine's Day chocolates in 2025 to satisfy every ...

Oliver found them at the Harry Ransom Center, an archive library at the University of Texas at Austin. She was there doing research on Gertrude Stein, another literary figure. But she decided to beat ...

Q: Does Columbia, New York City’s Ivy League university, established by royal charter as King’s College in 1754, have an art ...

Ignacio Darnaude, in Out magazine, accuses the National Portrait Gallery of "queer erasure" over its display of a Felix ...