Selected Fiction
“I sent a message to a celebrity on the internet. It said, I think we’d make a good match. I added my phone number at the end.”
“Duke had a tattoo of his dead mom on his upper thigh. I found it the first time I took his pants off. His mom was young and smiling politely at me, etched into the soft spot of his leg like fine art…”
“I stare at the jumbo box of Costco condoms on my desk. It is unopened, unhelpful. I open it and take out one condom. It doesn’t look like a weapon of self defense. It looks like a packet of soy sauce.”
“Lupus is a hot topic right now. Lots of celebrities have it. They also need new kidneys, some of them.”
Selected Journalism
Situated on a seven-acre lot at the foot of Catamount Mountain and just west of the part of the New York-Massachusetts border where the Hudson Valley meets the Berkshires, the newly opened Little Cat Lodge is an ode to the region’s historic ski culture…
In 2017, the Marshall House, a former herring factory built on Reykjavik’s Grandi harbor, reopened as a multipurpose art space that counts the Living Art Museum and Olafur Eliasson as tenants. As of this month, it’s also home to i8 Grandi…
On the Rue du Palais, a narrow street off the Place du Forum in Arles, France, where Roman senators once debated and, many years later, Vincent Van Gogh painted his famous “Terrasse du Café le Soir” (1888), is an 18th-century stone building with its own history…
At the heart of Kyoto is Nijo Castle, which served as the seat of the Japanese empire. But just across the street is a property that for centuries housed a different sort of dynasty...
The clog-like shoe has a cushioned Nappa footbed and is made from 100 percent biodegradable materials, so buying a pair in lieu of boots made with, say, vinyl — the toxic plastic used in most rain gear — is one more step you can take to help keep the planet healthy. But there is nothing earthy about this boot’s aesthetic.
For Angel Chang — the New York City-based designer who, after a decade of research and development, launched her eponymous clothing line last month — “sustainability” is less a word than a way of life.
Sitting 500 feet above the sea, atop a cliff on Capraia, Italy — one of seven islands making up the Tuscan Archipelago — is a restored 16th-century fortress built to house Genoan soldiers.
At first glance, Monica Vinader’s new jewelry collection, which launched this week at Nordstrom, brings to mind sweet and jagged rock candy.
South of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, which has been rebuilt eight times (most recently in 1855), the streets are lined with machiya, or narrow wooden townhouses that date as far back as Japan’s Heian period…
Connected to Verdura Resort, a Rocco Forte hotel located on a particularly serene stretch of Sicily’s southwestern coast, is an expansive orchard filled with lemon and pomegranate trees, prickly pear cactuses and several thousand olive and orange trees, plus a hearty organic vegetable garden. It’s here that Irene Forte came to source ingredients for her eponymous skin-care line, which includes cleansers, masks, scrubs, serums and more…