The View from Here

The Taliban can seize power in Afghanistan again, but this time they can’t turn off the lights

By Saad Mohseni
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Business

Prophet of the Golden Bull

How did a Bible-reading, Trump-supporting 65-year-old woman become Wall Street’s hottest stock picker?

By William D. Cohan
Modern Times

COVID Social Cues

Soirées, Ascot, and gossip about the new U.S. ambassador are back—but with a ping, not a bang

By Rachel Johnson
Just Arrived • July 31, 2021
Issue No. 107
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Air Supply

The Weekender Wish List Sometimes it’s the briefest sojourn that proves most challenging to prepare for. Let us help you with a few ideas for easy outfits, clever host gifts, and tasteful weekend-travel accessories

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Photo: George Konig/Shutterstock (Cooper and Hepburn)
Modern Times

Sympathy for the Girlboss

By Leigh Stein
Morning Meeting

Designing Woman

By Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey
Modern Times

Out-of-Office Reply

By Kat Rosenfield

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

Roiling in the Deep

By Helen Scales
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Float

Oliver James

The days of struggling to stay afloat on a giant pink flamingo are, blessedly, over. (At least for the non-influencer set.) Enter Oliver James,…

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Extraordinary Voyages

Chilean with a Scottish mother, Francisca Mattéoli grew up between Brazil and Santiago, and now…

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Métier

Métier founder and designer Melissa Morris is something of a mind reader, because the very minute we begin pondering a far-flung…

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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Books

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

Books

A Victorian Ted Bundy

By Mark Sanderson
Books

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
Travel

Beware of Falling Meteorites

By Olivia Judson
Travel

The Brooklyn of the North Sea

By Bipasha Ghosh
Travel

Petra or Bust

By Marcia DeSanctis

Fancy Footwork

By Matthew Gurewitsch
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Culture

Opera Pick of the Week

By Matthew Gurewitsch
Culture

The Kids Were Alright

By Nathan King
Books

Here Is New York

By Julia Vitale
Guest Edit

My Favorite Things Elizabeth Saltzman, the acclaimed Hollywood stylist and veteran fashion editor, believes “we all need to buy less, buy better.” Herewith, a few of her favorite go-to things

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Photo: Helene Sandberg (Saltzman)

Family Drama Writ Large (and Glamorous) Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love gets a fresh spin, this time starring Dominic West and Lily James

By Laura Freeman
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Books

The Mitford Spirit

By Max McGuinness
Culture

Party Like It’s the 1920s

By Laura Thompson
Books

Hopping Around

By Emily Hourican
Books

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