Roiling in the Deep The deep sea has so far managed to evade human intervention. Now mining companies are threatening Earth’s last frontier

By Helen Scales
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It’s Complicated The revolutionary filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl won the hearts of everyone from Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger to Joseph Goebbels and Roger Ailes

By Nigel Farndale
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Safe Mode The authors of a new book on the history of quarantines think they’re here to stay

By Jim Kelly
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Here Is New York Douglas Corrance’s colorful photographs recall summers in 1970s and 1980s New York

By Julia Vitale
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Two More Trump Books

By Josh Glancy
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A (Truly) Perfect Spy

By Julian Sancton
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Off the Mark

By Hugo Rifkind

Private jets, free lunches, sincere pleas … can anything get people back in the office?

Out-of-Office Reply

By Kat Rosenfield
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Playlists

Soul Stirrers

By Randall Poster
Morning Meeting

Gen Z and the Great WFH Revolt of 2021

By Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey
Playlists

Songs with Atmosphere

By Patti Smith

Good-bye, Blake Bailey Book-industry insiders are coming down on both sides of the Blake Bailey–Philip Roth controversy, which resulted in the pulping of Bailey’s Roth bio

By Andrew Anthony
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WASP’s Nest Terrified by the distinctly WASP-ish hell of lacking a life’s purpose, Cold War columnist Joe Alsop created a setting for his self-protective, civic-humanist fantasy

By Michael Knox Beran
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A Victorian Ted Bundy

By Mark Sanderson
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Short List What to read in the coming weeks, from memoirs exploring masculinity and the cutthroat world of ballet to a look at the history and future of motion

Modern Times

Why Do Rich People Love to Shoplift?

By Rene Chun
Crime and Scandal

Pedaling Bad Behavior

By Jill Kargman
Crime and Scandal

Playing Dirty

By Nicole LaPorte

The Power of the Pen

By Scott Anthony
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Culture

The Good, the Bach, and the Ugly

By John Lahr
Illustration by Paul Davis
Culture

Fancy Footwork

By Matthew Gurewitsch
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Cinderella’s New Groove

By Emerald Fennell
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The Enchanting Maximalist Is Marie Kondo a can’t-do? Do you consider Lilly Pulitzer a neutral? If so, then let yourself go wild with this trove of eye-catching pieces—ensembles, accessories, décor—that embrace color and whimsy, and pay understatement no mind. After all, for some of us, more really is more

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The Unusual Suspects For 50 years, residents of the Aeolian Islands’ Alicudi consumed an ingredient used in L.S.D. Today, they’re still hallucinating

By Elena Clavarino
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Modern Times

Cocaine Diaries

By Anthony Sniffington
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Spoonfuls of Sugar

By Bethany McLean
Modern Times

The Highest Office

By Hannah Seligson
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Bowie’s Top 100

By John O’Connell
Crime and Scandal

There’s the Rub

By Sheila Weller
Illustration by André Carrilho
The Royal Family

Naughty Nights with Randy Andy

By Vassi Chamberlain