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Crime and Scandal


Fakes, Nazis, and Fake Nazis

When the art dealer Ezra Chowaiki was offered the deal of a lifetime, he found himself in a confounding world of counterfeits

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How to Steal $40 Million Without Really Trying A gang of amateur thieves stole 6,600 gold bars from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in 2023. Two years later, the loot is nowhere to be found


The Gwyneth Chronicles A new, unauthorized biography of the actress and Goop founder dishes a lot of dirt and shows how Gwyneth Paltrow has left an indelible mark on popular culture

Latest Issue • July 26, 2025
Issue No. 315
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Air Supply

Sunburn After Reading Do you need to post up in a lounge chair with nothing to hear but the sound of lapping waves in order to read a book? AIR SUPPLY brings you everything but the beach

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The Write Stuff An inter-office memo highlighting Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s inherent racism reveals Toni Morrison to have been as fierce an editor as she was a writer

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Bruce Davidson Goes Way Back From miners in Wales to construction workers on Staten Island, the Magnum photographer trawls through 60 years of never-before-published work for a new coffee-table book

From Tahiti, with Love From the syphilis rumors to the French painter’s Polynesian exile in Tahiti, Sue Prideaux’s Wild Thing offers an all-encompassing biography of Paul Gauguin


Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch A novel reckoning with the aftermath of a cult, and two detective shows set in the worlds of art and L.A. crime

“A Ridiculous Optimist” In a rare interview, Quentin Blake, the inimitable children’s-book illustrator behind Roald Dahl’s Matilda, explains why he’s still drawing at 92

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Guest Edit

Selima Salaun’s Favorite Things The French-Algerian opticienne-lunetière and founder of Selima Optique shares what’s caught her well-trained eye

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My Tea with Jeffrey Epstein A tale of mysterious airline upgrades, bounced checks, and a fembot named Sophia

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