Archive for January, 2008

History in the Making »

Settling down didn’t come naturally to Simon Sebag Montefiore, the English banking scion with a playboy reputation who gave up finance for war reporting. Then he met the woman he knew he couldn’t let slip away, and started producing a series of acclaimed histories. Our correspondent drops in on the toast of London as he […]

Don’t be afraid of looking pretty, Hillary »

This month’s American Vogue begins with a letter by the editor, Anna Wintour, about Hillary Clinton dropping out of a cover photoshoot.
Wintour writes that she found it “amazing” that “our only female presidential hopeful had decided to steer clear of our pages - for fear of looking too feminine. The notion that a contemporary woman […]