Chloe Schama

Pamela Adlon’s exuberant, chaotic show defies categorization.

Cramped quarters, health risks, and no devices for online learning.

You don’t want to make it seem like their lives are going to be turned upside down, except that maybe they are.

Like the breastfeeding selfie, the breastfeeding Zoom call could normalize the act and just maybe make it a bit easier for working mothers.

From a new Elena Ferrante novel to a much-anticipated Yaa Gyasi follow-up and a new (adult!) novel from the “Gossip Girl” creator, there is plenty to keep you busy this fall—even if you’re not going out.

Netflix’s new show is set along the Southeast Asian “hippy trail” and dramatizes the crimes of real-life serial killer Charles Sobhraj.

The timing of Vogue World: London (at the kickoff of London Fashion Week) is no accident: Theater and fashion have always spoken to each other. What is a fashion show if not a very current (and very fast) reflection of the world; and what is theater if not a (somewhat) slower-paced presentation of the same thing? Vogue World: London put some of both worlds’ guiding lights into conversation at London’s Royal Drury Lane theater, transformed for the evening into a spectacle celebrating those two ar…

The photographer Mayan Toledano didn’t expect to make a second home for herself when she started visiting Mexico City. But she felt at ease there, and started going several times a year. “Suddenly I had people, friends there. Suddenly I had a mini life somewhere else,” she tells me earlier this fall. Whenever she left, she felt the urge to return: “I need to come back and water these new flowers in my life.” That sense of community is reflected in Mayan Toledano: No Mames, out this month from Da…

While the intersection of scent and taste with memory has prompted scientific examinations and literary ruminations (Proust with his madeleines, etc.), the connection between color perception and memory seems a more elusive target for inquiry, perhaps because it is so subjective. “I am only too aware—having faced customers across the shop counter for many years—that we tend to see color in different ways,” writes The Anatomy of Colour author Patrick Baty in an email to me from London, where he i…

Tom Chapman, the co-founder of MatchesFashion, has a friend who throws what he deems the best pizza parties in America. So when this friend’s birthday came around, the entrepreneur knew what to give him: a hand-forged Ben Bodman pizza wheel made with Damascus steel. “The best pizza cutter for the best pizza-maker,” he tells me when we chat in Chapman’s hometown of London. This is Chapman’s philosophy when it comes to gifting—you have to know the person, and you have to think hard about what will…