A Grill to Make Grown Men Weep Earphones that sound like a million dollars! A folding phone that gets the jump on Apple! And an app for tracking oligarchs’ yachts …
Papers, Please! What’s in your wallet? If you’re a 21st-century tech baron, a growing stack of passports
Latest Issue • Aug. 8, 2026
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No. 369
The View from Here
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CO-OP DE GRÂCE
SAPPHIRE IN THE ROUGH
CAMPUS CALAMITY
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Murder, They Wrote This summer’s best mystery books feature heroines of Homeric proportions, from a female police chief who resuscitates a tragic cold case to a union leader turned drug queenpin
A Tale of Two Names The editor of Kitchen Confidential attempts to reconcile Tony Bourdain, the socially awkward man she counted as a close friend, and Anthony Bourdain, the cool-cat global traveler the world came to love
The Director and the Madman Born one year apart, Roman Polanski and Charles Manson lived eerily parallel lives for years before finally intersecting at the brutal murder of Sharon Tate
America’s Sweetheart From Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi to Andy Warhol, Titanic to Ghostbusters II, an exhibition in Fort Worth, Texas, explores the history and legacy of the Statue of Liberty
