Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See might be the most widely acclaimed book of the past decade. It won a Pulitzer Prize and was shortlisted for a National Book Award. Barack Obama made time to devour—and recommend—it while he was still in the White House. The New York Times called the novel “hauntingly beautiful” and named it one of the 10 best books of 2014. But it wasn’t just a critical darling. Read More...
Hyein just turned 15, but her birthday wish is unusually purposeful for a teenager: “I want to show more of my skills and different sides of me that I haven’t shown yet,” she says. This youthful drive to keep growing is a common denominator among Hyein and her NewJeans bandmates: Minji, Haerin, Hanni, and Danielle, who are all under 20.
A year ago, no one knew who NewJeans was. But since it dropped its first music video in August 2022, the nascent K-pop girl group—managed by the record label ADOR, a subsidiary of the South Korean entertainment behemoth HYBE, which launched boy band BTS to international acclaim—has already reached global milestones even faster than its more senior counterparts in the industry. Read More...
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Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 43, multimillionheir owner of one of the top U.S. racing stables, confirmed Manhattan cafe scuttlebutt that he and his high-styled wife were legally separated last January. Of pretty Jeanne Lourdes Murray Vanderbilt, 33, his elopement bride (second wife) in 1945, a friend once observed: "She can take race horses or let them alonewith a slight drift toward the latter." The rift, however, seemed no choose-me-or-your-horses affair: Vanderbilt announced that he will sell 37 of his 41 thoroughbreds next week. Read More...