Features - Interviews / Literature

Laura Kasischke’s Portrait of an American Illusion

Laura Kasischke spent 12 years writing 'The Lifeguard' – a journey of endurance mirrored in the novel itself, where a small-town community struggles to come to terms with the drowning of a child.

Interview by Léonard Desbrières
Image courtesy of Gallimard
Features - Film

Éric Rohmer’s Endless Summers

A field guide to the director’s tanned and tormented vacationers.

Words by Nolan Kelly
Still from 'Claire's Knee,' 1970 / Alamy
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Features - Food and Travel / Recommendations

The Scoop on Paris’s Ice Cream Boom

As Paris swelters through another heatwave filled summer, four ice cream makers reflect on queues, virality and surviving winter.

Words by Grace Jewitt
Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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Features - Literature / Recommendations

What the Mastermind Team Is Reading this Summer

From Michigan suburbs to 70,000 years of history, here are this summer's literary picks from the Mastermind team.

La Collectionneuse (1985) CAP/SFS Image supplied by Capital Pictures / Alamy