Christopher Bollen’s apartment in Paris is perched in a building overlooking Shakespeare & Co. It’s about as classic a spot as any for an expatriate writer to find himself in. His sixth novel, Havoc, which came out in 2024, is just about to be published in French. To celebrate, we spent the afternoon with the writer to talk about murder, male models and tarot card readers.

For the first in our new editorial series, A Life In… we joined Quo Vadis’s chef-proprietor Jeremy Lee for lunch of a martini and a smoked eel sandwich, and let him regale us with stories of a life spent in kitchens, from his mum’s cooking in Dundee, to his favourite cookbooks, and those famous meringues.   

Ira Silverberg has been a leading figure in New York’s literary scene in the 1980s. We caught up with him at his home in Bellport, Long Island, for a long lunch and to be regaled with stories about everyone from JT LeRoy to William Burroughs, to his time as the doorman at the Limelight and as the Literature Director of The National Endowment of the Arts under Barack Obama.  

On a sunny autumn’s day on the Upper East Side, Lulu Graham talks us through her personal style and fashion history, as we visit some of New York’s finest culinary institutions.

“I’ve become a more serious writer as I’ve got funnier” — Geoff Dyer on growing older, growing up and giving up tennis.

A trip to Brooklyn to meet a painter who showcases the beauty of small moments

In Tokyo with the renowned author and authority on Japanese and American clothing and contemporary culture