Are you an Army Smarmy or a Rus in Urbe? Unabashedly Prep on 1982’s The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook. 

Boris Kachka spends a little time with James Wood and Claire Messud for New York Magazine. 

Sarah Gerard discusses Hilda Hilst’s The Obscene Madame D for Los Angeles Review of Books.

The writers behind Mad Men are working on a show about NASA in the 1960s.

The Bowery Boys discuss three beautiful NYC structures that popped up after the Woolworth Building.

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