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...

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...

Ancient Trees

from National Geographic  These Ancient Trees Have Stories to Tell by Becky Harlan BETH MOON Over three trillion trees live on planet Earth, and yet we know so few of their stories. Of course all trees play an important role—purifying the air, hosting the feathered...