Shades of Autumn

For the first in our new editorial series, A Life In… we joined Quo Vadis’s chef-proprietor Jeremy Lee for lunch of a martini and a smoked eel sandwich, and let him regale us with stories of a life spent in kitchens, from his mum’s cooking in Dundee, to his favourite cookbooks, and those famous meringues.   

For more than forty years, the artist Peter Halley has been charting the architecture, energy and hidden circuitry of modern life, long before the internet made networks a way of being. We met him in his Chelsea studio to talk about his enduring visual language, his time running Index magazine, and how New York has shaped and been shaped by his work. 

Ira Silverberg has been a leading figure in New York’s literary scene in the 1980s. We caught up with him at his home in Bellport, Long Island, for a long lunch and to be regaled with stories about everyone from JT LeRoy to William Burroughs, to his time as the doorman at the Limelight and as the Literature Director of The National Endowment of the Arts under Barack Obama.