Dilara O'Neil

Jul 25, 2024 | pinupmagazine.org | Dilara O'Neil

Mary McCarthy’s The Oasis by Dilara O'Neil In Mary McCarthy’s 1949 The Oasis, the sharp eye of an iconically withering book critic is cast not on literature but on the personalities of her milieu. The novel sparked outrage among some of the thinly disguised intellectuals within its pages; literary critic Diana Trilling famously called McCarthy “a thug,” and Philip Rahv, founding editor of Partisan Review, considered suing for libel before it was published.

Jan 2, 2024 | vulture.com | Emma Alpern |Madeline Leung Coleman |Dilara O'Neil |Choire Sicha

The publishing-world satire is ready to hang it up. To the grad-school roman à clef: You have been denied tenure. This year, the most exciting books avoid these ho-hum recent trends in favor of stranger pleasures, daring memoir, and the ruthless re-zhuzhing of classic American lit. Because you need, and deserve, to be surprised. Blackburn’s first novel, after short-story collections published in 2017 and 2021, is strange and gripping, dancing between sci-fi and family saga.

Nov 9, 2023 | nymag.com | Lily Aldridge |Dilara O'Neil |Jenna Milliner-Waddell

Photo: Hugo Yu To find the hundreds of items on this list, we first polled our extremely knowledgeable staff about the best new items to pop up in their respective beats.

Nov 8, 2023 | nymag.com | Dilara O'Neil |Jenna Milliner-Waddell

A smushable hat, $198. Photo: Hugo Yu To find the hundreds of items on this list, we first polled our extremely knowledgeable staff about the best new items to pop up on their respective beats.

Nov 7, 2023 | nymag.com | Jenna Milliner-Waddell |Dilara O'Neil

Photo: HugoYu To find the hundreds of items on this list, we first polled our extremely knowledgeable staff about the best new items to pop up on their respective beats. Then a group of dedicated editors spent months going down all manner of rabbit holes: scanning the background of home tours to track down the most special bathtub we’ve ever encountered, challenging ourselves to find teeny-tiny shops we’d never heard of.