Churning Up SoHo The British chef Thomas Straker—London’s heartthrob and the Internet’s “Butter King”—dishes on his many martinis, taking Manhattan by storm, and his very public spat with Keith McNally
The Last Frontier How a wilderness outpost built by legendary hunter Jack Bousfield—guide to Clark Gable and Ernest Hemingway—became Botswana’s most decadent tented hotel
Latest Issue • Oct. 24, 2026
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No. 380
Sympathy for Elizabeth Holmes
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THE WRITE STUFF
GRACE PERIOD
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The View from Here
The Curb Your Enthusiasm Creator Has a Few Suggestions for the DSA
By
Larry David
Arts and Letters
A Conversation With Tina Barney, the Society Photographer Who Wasn’t
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The Night of the Hunter
Spelled out on his left knuckles is H-A-T-E, and on his right, L-O-V-E. Although a commercial and critical flop…
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Jolt
What a shiny and privileged life Ted Scheinman seemed to lead: a graduate of Hotchkiss and Yale, he seemed destined to be another…
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Partita Playlist
Barbara Kingsolver needs no introduction. Neither does her latest novel, Partita, which follows a classical-piano prodigy…
Murder, They Wrote The strange sinking of a luxury ocean liner! A train hijacking en route to London! Disasters punctuate this fall’s best mysteries…
Mother Dearest Emmanuel Carrère’s Prix Médicis–winning Kolkhoz, about his mother Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, is less a reconciliation than a sly takedown
Peak Television Scott Meslow’s A Place Both Wonderful and Strange goes inside the making of David Lynch’s surrealist drama, which counted Queen Elizabeth and Mikhail Gorbachev among its fans
“The Book Really Wanted to Sing All Along” The Metropolitan Opera presents the world premiere of Lincoln in the Bardo, an operatic adaptation of the 2017 novel by George Saunders
Crime and Scandal
