My daughter came home from school the other day with this Dorothy Parker poem scribbled in 11-year-old penmanship down her palm and onto her wrist. “I got in trouble for writing on myself,” she said. “It’s that ink. They think it’s going to poison...

What’s infinity divided by two? Yea, cosmographically, every point in the universe is the center of the universe. So orange is red, so long as you ignore that yellowish tinge. And I am Marie of Romania. I doff my cap to you for that Dorothy Parker...

“Gin is being reclaimed,” says Allen Katz, co-founder of the Williamsburg-based New York Distilling Company, which launched in December with a pair of gins — the “navy strength” (114 proof) Perry’s Tot and the more restrained Dorothy Parker. Those gins...

Jolie), seem like a modern-day fad. But the popular media had its own super-couple back in the 1920s: Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley, or ParkBench. A new novel imagines a romance blossoming between the witty Mrs. Parker and the humorous Mr. Benchley...

Dorothy shares nightcaps with pal Walter (Robin Downward) and fellow party girl Alice (Katie Worley). Among the smart set, strong drink is not an issue; it's simply another weapon in the arsenal against the old ennui, don't you know. This is a world in...

They were defending muffs: big, bouffant ones. The Muff March was against the pornography-influenced obsession with removing pubic hair and the rise in cosmetic gynaecological surgery. Some people came dressed in nude body suits adorned with cheerful...