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Learning Luxury: Exploring the History and Practice of High-End Hospitality

Learning Luxury: Exploring the History and Practice of High-End Hospitality

Maggie Stiefvater: “Here is another way luxury differs from wealth. Wealth does what you tell it to. Luxury surprises you.”

By Maggie Stiefvater | June 4, 2025

Would You Give Up Air-Conditioning If You Knew It Would Save the Planet?

Would You Give Up Air-Conditioning If You Knew It Would Save the Planet?

Eric Dean Wilson on the Perpetual American Need for Comfort

By Eric Dean Wilson | July 26, 2021

Today in weird literary tourism: there’s a Welsh spa named for Dylan Thomas’s Milk Wood

Today in weird literary tourism: there’s a Welsh spa named for Dylan Thomas’s Milk Wood

By Jonny Diamond | October 20, 2020

Josh Gondelman: Please Stop Trying to Make Dad Shoes Cool

Josh Gondelman: Please Stop Trying to Make Dad Shoes Cool

Let These $950 Sneakers Be the End of the Trend

By Josh Gondelman | September 17, 2019

Paris's Literary Hotel, a Room (and Writer) for Each Letter of the Alphabet

Paris's Literary Hotel, a Room (and Writer) for Each Letter of the Alphabet

(But Are You Sure You Want to Stay in the Kafka Room?)

By Matt Grant | January 31, 2018

What is Money, Anyway?

What is Money, Anyway?

On Lenin, KimYe, and Gold-Plated Toilets

By Pascal Bruckner | May 15, 2017

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