March 30, 2024
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COPY-CAT CRAZE

From dachshunds to ponies, Americans are lining up in droves to clone their beloved pets—and they’re willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for it, Holly Peterson reports …

CHAMPAGNE SOCIALISM

Rich Cohen asks how a product of Brooklyn’s ritzy Saint Ann’s School and heir to one of the great American fortunes became a political radical intent on destroying the West …

FRAUGHT OFF THE PRESSES

King Charles’s and Kate Middleton’s different handling of their cancer diagnoses suggests the royal family’s “never complain, never explain” mantra is dead …

SALAD DAYS

No vagina candles here! How Gwyneth Paltrow’s new health-food chain, Goop Kitchen, managed to win over even the most woo-woo–weary Angelenos …

THE TIES THAT BOND

Behind every great fictional secret agent, there’s a real, even more complicated one. For proof, look no further than Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond—and, in part, the O.S.S.—writes Pico Iyer …

OPEN BOOK

In an interview with Jim Kelly, the hedge-funder turned novelist Amor Towles details the making of A Gentleman in Moscow’s TV adaptation—and tells how his latest, Table for Two, came to be …

BEHIND THE VELVET CURTAIN

After decades as the secret weapon of New York’s Public Theater, Mandy Hackett, who’s won endorsements from John Leguizamo and Alicia Keys, tells Joanne Kaufman about her move to Broadway …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Dita Von Teese titillates in Vegas … Kara Swisher enumerates her least favorite things … London’s “Biba girls” return … a Great Gatsby Broadway adaptation, lost and found … Brazil’s hidden gem … Vote now in this week’s Attention-Whore Index Poll! …

But First …
Issue No. 246

The View from Here Death takes a holiday: pet cloning is the next best thing to reincarnation

By Holly Peterson
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
Catching Flack

A Tale of Two Royal Households When King Charles had bad news, his communications chief put on a master class in damage control. If only Kate had done the same

By John Arlidge
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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Wild Card

Heir to the Revolution Fergie Chambers is an heir to the Cox media fortune. He also wants to destroy the West. Is he a political radical? Or a rich boy with daddy issues?

By Rich Cohen
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Air Supply

Rain of Thought

Weather April’s showers in slick, sensible style with AIR SUPPLY’s storm-ready array of waterproof wonders and the trench coat that can be worn rain or shine
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Photo: AFP/Getty Images (Marais, Signoret and Pigaut)
Guest Edit

My Favorite Things The New York designer behind the prairie dress’s revival shares her delightfully eclectic must-haves, from bold beauty statements to night gowns and orthopedic shoes

By Batsheva Hay
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Photo: Alexei Hay (Hay)
T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Macron punches for popularity, Trump continues his all-caps insanity, and Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused of all sorts of depravity. Plus, the strangest news from around the world

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Small Talk
“Honey, come quick! This guy in the comment section just solved the Middle East crisis.”
“Honey, come quick! This guy in the comment section just solved the Middle East crisis.”
Le Scandale!

The Differently Abled of Notre-Dame Woke versions of literary classics are everywhere, but the French are fighting back, mais bien sûr!

By Charles Bremner
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Best
STRUT Aeyde The world has gone mad. How else can one account for the fact that even basic ballet flats (from luxury brands like the Row, but still)… STAY Hotel Lilien It’s best to keep your guard up when first visiting Hotel Lilien, in the Catskills, because you may be tempted to move in for good… WEAR Tom Taylor Belts A resourceful man knows that belts are near the top of the list of accessories with innumerable uses: bundling clothes, as a guitar strap… WATCH 1000 Movies Sean Price Williams first began compiling his list of favorite films in 2005, after departing from the legendary East Village institution… SIP Cornishware Last year, T. G. Green & Co. celebrated 100 years of its popular Cornishware line. Frederick Parker, who joined the firm in 1919… CARRY Rimowa Just in time for summer travel, Rimowa is launching a new, limited-edition Hammerschlag Collection—the first range… STRUT Aeyde The world has gone mad. How else can one account for the fact that even basic ballet flats (from luxury brands like the Row, but still)… STAY Hotel Lilien It’s best to keep your guard up when first visiting Hotel Lilien, in the Catskills, because you may be tempted to move in for good… WEAR Tom Taylor Belts A resourceful man knows that belts are near the top of the list of accessories with innumerable uses: bundling clothes, as a guitar strap… WATCH 1000 Movies Sean Price Williams first began compiling his list of favorite films in 2005, after departing from the legendary East Village institution… SIP Cornishware Last year, T. G. Green & Co. celebrated 100 years of its popular Cornishware line. Frederick Parker, who joined the firm in 1919… CARRY Rimowa Just in time for summer travel, Rimowa is launching a new, limited-edition Hammerschlag Collection—the first range…
Food and Drink

Gwynnie to Go Even Gwyneth Paltrow haters can’t get enough of Goop Kitchen, her healthy-takeout restaurant chain that’s taking over Los Angeles

By Jensen Davis
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Small Talk

Godsmacked Weeding out the Garden of Eden

By Simon Webster
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Eight Questions

From the Metropol Hotel to Hollywood In an interview, Amor Towles discusses adapting A Gentleman in Moscow for the screen and the inspiration behind his newest book, Table for Two

By Jim Kelly
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Broadway’s Secret Weapon

New Kid on the Great White Way The longtime Public Theater producer Mandy Hackett sets her sights on Broadway with the Alicia Keys–inspired musical, Hell’s Kitchen

By Joanne Kaufman
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In the Swing

Viva Biba! Twiggy! Bardot! Pet food? A new exhibition in London pays tribute to Biba, the brand that made everything it touched fabulous—from silk sheets to baked beans

By Chloe Mac Donnell
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Small Talk
Making it look easy.
Making it look easy.
Lost and Found

Flappers to the Wings! The Great Gatsby made F. Scott Fitzgerald’s name, but the Broadway play of his book made him rich. A copy of the long-lost script has finally been found

By Dalya Alberge
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Books
Adrian Tinniswood On

Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII

by Jane Marguerite Tippett
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Pico Iyer On

Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

by Nicholas Shakespeare
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Small Talk
“We still get crows, but at least he’s keeping the other crime families out of the corn.”
“We still get crows, but at least he’s keeping the other crime families out of the corn.”
Television

Katana and Crumpets The new hit TV mini-series Shōgun has re-ignited interest in the rollicking life of the Englishman William Adams, Japan’s first foreign samurai

By Justin McCurry
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Elements of Style

Star, Spangled

Thanks to Dita Von Teese, who is now in residency at the Jubilee Theater in Las Vegas, the art of the striptease remains alive and well
By David Downton
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Listen

What the Hell Is Gwyneth Cooking Up Now? On this week’s podcast, Jensen Davis taste-tests Goop Kitchen

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Publish or Perish

A Publisher of One’s Own For 25 years, Persephone Books has been turning the works of forgotten female writers into unexpected best-sellers

By Susie Goldsbrough
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Highlight
Never Again War (Nie Wieder Krieg), a 1924 lithograph by Käthe Kollwitz.

Against the Grain

Käthe Kollwitz was 47 when her 18-year-old son, Peter, was killed on Flanders Fields, in 1914. The grieving mother began using her platform as one of Germany’s most celebrated artists, noted for her masterful drawing and printmaking, to become one of its most outspoken pacifists. In 1918, when a newspaper article written by the poet Richard Dehmel called for more German troops to be sent to the Western Front, Kollwitz responded with an open letter begging for an end to the Great War and the loss of any more human life. READ ON

Never Again War (Nie Wieder Krieg), a 1924 lithograph by Käthe Kollwitz. Read On
Close-up

Owen Mears and Emily Cameron With Ffern, a small-batch natural-perfume line, the English siblings are reviving organic fragrances

By Jeanne Malle
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Photography

Around the World with Steve McCurry Refugee camps in Pakistan, civil wars in Cambodia, religious ceremonies in India … A new book collects more than 100 images by the American photojournalist

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A sculptor at the Drala Mountain Center, formerly known as the Shambhala Mountain Center, in Colorado. Photographed by Steve McCurry in 2004.
Top, monks making a pilgrimage to Kyaiktiyo Pagoda (Golden Rock), in Kyaikto, Myanmar, 1994; above, ballerinas practicing in Croatia, 1989.
Top, practicing at a Shaolin martial-arts school in Zhengzhou, China, 2004; above, elephants and their mahouts in Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2010.
A nun in study and contemplation next to her monastery, in Yangon, Myanmar, 2010.
Top, a woman at home in the Omo Valley, in Ethiopia, 2013; above, a boy resting with the family cow in Kathmandu, Nepal, 2013.
A monk in his garden at the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Foresta, in Rieti, Italy, 2004.
Top, a man sitting next to his bombed-out taxi, in Kabul, 1992; above, a pilgrim at a medieval rock-hewn church in Ethiopia, 2016.
A prison preacher praying with inmates in Lakeland, Florida, 1987.
Top, a man’s aunt helps with his caretaking in Vietnam, 2007; above, a man meditating at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp, in Poland, 2005.
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Travel

Paraty Time This beach town is the gateway to some of Brazil’s most spectacular islands

By Erin Granat
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Small Talk
Good Peep, bad Peep.
Good Peep, bad Peep.
The Imperfect Ending

Kara Swisher

The pioneering tech journalist, whose Burn Book is topping the best-seller lists, can’t wait to share her hates
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John Cuneo’s Sketchbook
Edward Sorel’s 95th birthday was earlier this week, so I couldn’t resist doing a portrait of my friend. I do a good deal of uncommissioned sketchbook stuff such as this, and whenever I share these drawings with Ed, he likes to grandly proclaim, “I never pick up a pen without a purchase order!” (He’s really not the mercenary he pretends to be.) Happy birthday, Ed!
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