Queens of Infamy: Josephine Bonaparte, from Malmaison to More-Than-Monarch
The second instalment in the extraordinary life of Josephine Bonaparte that takes her from marriage to Napoleon to Empress of France.
The Inside Story of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s George Magazine
A healthy dose of 90s nostalgia pervades this story about John F Kennedy Jr’s at-the-time trailblazing magazine blending lifestyle and politics.
The Invention of the ‘Salvator Mundi’
As the author of this piece puts it – “What connects Leonardo da Vinci, a Russian oligarch, a Baton Rouge sheet metal man, a Saudi prince, several major museums, and a Swiss tycoon?’. The answer – Salvator Mundi.
Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands
The tale of the epochal, fierce business war between increasingly sophisticated hand dryers and paper towels for primacy in the public bathroom.
A Dispatch From the Fast-Paced, Makeshift World of High-End Catering
Behind the scenes in the silver service catering world.
‘It’s genuine, you know?’: why the online influencer industry is going ‘authentic’
Behind the scenes in the world of influencers, where “authenticity” is the new watchword.
How Notre Dame inspired Henri Matisse, who depicted the cathedral as a living memory
The Washington Post’s art critic examines two radically different depictions of Notre Dame painted by Henri Matisse over a decade apart.
How a 119-Word Local Crime Brief Became Facebook’s Most-Shared Story of 2019
A local news story that became an unexpected viral hit is used as a way to examine the algorithm that influences what people see on Facebook, a place where many people (43% of American adults per the Pew Research Center) continue to get their news.
The Senseless Logic of the Wild
A survival story about a group of young men from New York in their early twenties who were on an expedition to Alaska when the weather turned bad and things went very wrong.
Nihilist In Chief
A none too flattering profile of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a man right at the heart of the American political system.