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Cooking, Eating, Talking, Grieving Ruthie Rogers has fed the great and the good for more than 25 years. In her podcast, she uses food to delve into the pasts of Elton John, Paul McCartney, and more

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So Long, Fashion Victims After stints at Halston, Rochas, and Schiaparelli, Marco Zanini has struck out on his own. The only catch? To buy his clothes, you have to fly to Japan


Served with Distinction The French Foreign Legion prides itself on being the toughest fighting unit in the world—and also on having the finest cuisine, naturellement!

Enrique Olvera, Seasoned Traveler The Mexican chef behind Cosme and Pujol reveals his travel routine

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A Boy’s Best Friend … At Andy Warhol’s suggestion—”she’s so-o-o interesting”—a biographer pulls back the curtain on the artist’s mother, an unsung painter in her own right

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Concrete Jungles From Marcel Breuer’s early modernist designs to Le Corbusier’s pocket gardens, two new books speak to the enduring allure of brutalism

Giant Girls Don’t Cry Edna Ferber’s great-niece pulls back the curtain on the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer’s personal life—and the sacrifices she made for her craft


Pretty Women A new book chronicles the myriad extremes that women have gone to across four centuries in pursuit of the ideal face and form

Lifting the Veil The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which dramatizes the ongoing turmoil in Iran, is itself an act of protest

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Richard Christiansen’s L.A. Christmas Story The founder of Flamingo Estate, his home in the L.A. hills and of the lifestyle brand it inspired, is Australian, but Angeleno culture has crept into his holiday traditions

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The Vocal Minority What’s behind the growing popularity of Ivy League student Republican clubs?

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