On New Yorker writer George W. S. Trow’s descent into madness.

A profile of the hard-living, cop-dodging artist Dash Snow, published two years before his death of an overdose.

On Silvio Berlusconi’s hedonism.

Berlusconi is Italy’s waning Hugh Hefner, alternately reviled and admired for his loyalty to his own appetites—except that he’s supposed to be running the country.

Is Mike Huckabee the GOP’s best hope in 2012? Mike Huckabee’s not so sure.