By Nancy Dalva 4/09/07 12:00am

Leo the Last: Condé Nast Consort

Part pooh-bah, part pontiff, for some 50 years Leo Lerman ruled Manhattan’s cultural roost from a host of journalistic redoubts, including Mademoiselle, Vogue and Vanity Fair, ending his career as an über-editorial advisor at Condé Nast Publications. He died at 80 on Aug. 22, 1994. The ultimate first-nighter, he apparently never missed the opening of Read More

By Anne Roiphe 1/21/02 12:00am

At Heart, I’m A Provincial New Yorker

My friend, my

reader. Slippery streets. Gray skies, mufflers pulled tight, boots stained by

salt and mud. Despite the solstice, darkness still falls in the early

afternoon, shrouding the lampposts, the fire hydrants, the no-parking signs. On

Broadway the fluorescent tubes in the corner deli are dead-eyed white, like

they are in a hospital corridor, Read More