writing
Rachel Aviv on Writing About Moms
The people closest to us can sometimes be the hardest to see clearly—and mothers might be the blurriest. “The mother-daughter relationship, perhaps more than any other, seems to defy...
On Writing a Queer Sports Romance
Love Stories is a series about love in all its forms. For this year’s installment, Vogue partnered with the publisher 831 Stories on a collection of essays and excerpts...
The Myth of the Perfect Writer’s Room
In touring the history of writerly spaces, “The Writer’s Room” elegantly describes the rooms kept by Maya Angelou, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, John Keats, and other luminaries. It finds...
I’ve Been Writing About This Shirt for 15 Years. Here’s Why I Won’t Stop
For fifteen years, I've written and posted about all of my favorite things in menswear under the same moniker: The Bengal Stripe. And while yes, that decision was partially...
The Brilliance and the Badness of “The Sun Also Rises”
The second sentence is “Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.” Even to my...
Putin ready to rule out attack on Europe in writing
President Vladimir Putin has said he is ready to document in writing the renunciation of a Russian attack on Europe as part of diplomatic negotiations.He said it was a...
A Chef’s Guide to Sumptuous Writing
From 1999 to 2020, Prune, a thirty-seat restaurant in the East Village, was a New York City institution. Its creator was Gabrielle Hamilton, a woman who (as The New...
Metropolitan Police officer officer dismissed for writing misogynistic erotic stories on work laptop
A police officer who wrote erotic fiction on his work laptop because he “did not have enough to do” has been dismissed from the force.Detective Constable Thomas Sewell spent...
The Art of the Profile
On October 26, 2025, the New Yorker staff writers Larissa MacFarquhar, Rebecca Mead, Ian Parker, Kelefa Sanneh, and Michael Schulman joined the executive editor Daniel Zalewski onstage at the...
What Writing a Book About Jean Paul Gaultier Taught Me About the Iconic Designer
Once upon a time—actually about two years ago—I was asked to work on the Catwalk book about Jean Paul Gaultier. Upon looking at an Excel sheet that listed all...
