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Tinker Tailor Soldier Nerd Has there ever been a group more defenseless against attractive female spies than the men building artificial intelligence?

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Letters from Scamelot In her latest party report, Caroline Calloway renounces a private-jet journey, spends a humbling night at a motel in Virginia, and leaves a black-tie gala with an unofficial party favor


The Champagne That Dare Not Speak Its Name Domaine Evremond offers French fizz with English roots—just don’t call it the c-word

Succession, Italian–Style He has two yachts, jokes of being a billion dollars in debt, and claims to have slept with 2,000 women. Now the playboy heir to the Ray-Ban fortune is at war with his late father’s handpicked C.E.O.

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I’m Talkin’ Here! Dustin Hoffman looks back at his greatest roles, his spikiest co-stars, and his #MeToo cancellation

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How Frank Capra Got His Wings The horrors of World War II shook the director’s faith in humanity. Making It’s a Wonderful Life restored it

Letters from Monet Claude Monet: A Life in Letters collects a lifetime of the artist’s letters, shedding new light into his precarious financial status, relationships, and moods


Pièces de Résistance Ahead of the midterms, a new book of photographs by Jean-Pierre Laffont captures two decades of American defiance

To Catch Two Thieves Whether as Alberich or Wotan, Brian Mulligan has a lock on the “Ring”

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Air Supply

Cool, Calm and Collected An argument for the long haul: well-made clothes, good watches, and objects for the home that prove the best purchases are rarely the newest, just the ones you reach for year after year

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The Man with the Golden Con Eric Freymond stole millions from the original Bond girl and bilked an heir to the Hermès fortune out of billions. Was the Swiss wealth manager the greatest fraudster who ever lived?

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