Christopher Bonanos is city editor at New York magazine, where he covers arts and culture and urban affairs. He is the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous and Instant: The Story of Polaroid.At The Week magazine Bonanos tagged six favorite New York City biographies, including:
The Man in the Glass House by Mark Lamster (2018).Read about another entry on the list.
Here's all 98 years of the life of that wily rich-kid-aesthete-fascist-turned-corporate-smooth-talker Philip Johnson, who never met an architectural trend he didn't glom onto. What a career! At one point in the 1980s, he proposed a Manhattan skyscraper entered via a drawbridge over a moat full of alligators. It was designed, you will perhaps not be surprised to learn, for Donald Trump.
--Marshal Zeringue
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