Party’s Gone Out Of Bounds

from The New York Times Partying Underground in Paris’s Secret Corners By SARA LIEBERMAN Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times  PARIS — Inside an abandoned seven-floor, 70-room house near the Arc de Triomphe, more than 650 revelers in floor-length gowns, curly white...

Black Mayo

from NAUTILUS In the “Black Mayonnaise” of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, Alien Life Is Being Born POSTED BY TYLER J. KELLEY Illustration by Simon Fraser/Eugene Lehnert On a late fall morning, Joseph Alexiou fastened his life jacket and stepped into an eight-foot...

Thirty Years of BLUE VELVET

from The Village Voice Thirty Years on, ‘Blue Velvet’ Still Enraptures and Confounds BY MELISSA ANDERSON Courtesy Film Forum Three decades after its initial release, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet has lost none of its power to derange, terrify, and...

Nabokov, Amateur Lepidopterist

from The New Yorker Vladimir Nabokov, Butterfly Illustrator BY ELIF BATUMAN Vladimir Nabokov began collecting lepidoptera at the age of seven. Throughout a long and protean literary career, his passion for insects remained unwavering. He published his first verses as...