We live in a golden age of start-ups. But a great idea, a big influx of VC cash or fantastic name recognition is no guarantee for success. For every Spanx, Zipcar or Flickr, there's a Pets.com, kozmo.com or theglobe.com (remember those?) that crashed and burned. For his terrific new book ... More

"Yesterday John and I were looking at couples therapy and stuff,” announces supermodel Chrissy Teigen, popping an oily Italian olive into her mouth. She clarifies: “Not for us, I mean.” Teigen and her husband, the musician John Legend, are cuddled up at il Buco in downtown Manhattan. Over a ... More

The first thing that strikes you about Coco Rocha is, of course, her face. It has those perfect angles, the sharp, sculpted ones that seem to be a prerequisite for becoming a model. But before you can even process the rest of her otherworldly appearance—her flawless ivory complexion, her piercing ... More

In the opening moments of the music video for “The Chamber,” the first single off Lenny Kravitz’s new album, Strut, the screen is splashed with a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche. “The true man wants two things,” it reads, “danger and play.” But for Kravitz, who’s got 25 awards-strewn years in the music industry behind ... More

On September 26, Amazon will release its latest original series, Transparent, which follows a Los Angeles family as they grapple with an array of discoveries—including the fact that their father, played by Jeffrey Tambor, is transgender, a plotline based in part of the life of creator Jill Soloway (Afternoon ... More

When Mapei’s single “Don’t Wait” was released in late 2013, it immediately landed the 30-year-old singer in the spotlight and got tongues wagging about the new-on-the-scene Swedish chanteuse. A year later, Mapei has taken the smart, soulful sound that made “Don’t Wait” so accessible and expanded it to an album’s ... More

International intrigue is a distant memory for Elizabeth McCord, or so she thought. The former CIA agent has traded in spook life for academia and a family, but when the sitting Secretary of State meets an untimely end and McCord’s tapped for the gig, she finds herself more deeply embedded ... More

This past June, an invitation was sent by e-mail, beckoning a select group of desirable New Yorkers to frolic by the glass-bottomed swimming pool—a basin flanked by 4,800 square feet of imported sand and private cabanas—at Dream Downtown, a sceney hotel that’s perhaps better known as a nightlife destination than ... More

Five years ago, frustrated with her acting career, Oxford-educated Jessie Burton decided it was time to try a novel.  She was drawn to the sight of an intricate 17th century dollhouse in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum owned by the wife of a wealthy merchant, and she began to imagine that young woman’s world. The ... More