The Curious Case of the Zendaya Spider Brooch Two historic jewelry houses claimed a yellow-sapphire piece worn on a Spider-Man red carpet as their own. Now it’s disappeared. What happened?
Revenge of The Robots Why are A.I. agents suddenly going rogue? The computer scientist who wrote the textbook on the subject has the answer—and the solution
Latest Issue • Aug. 8, 2026
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Are They Dead Yet?
A good obituary is an art form, and there are few practitioners as deft as Sam Roberts, who has been writing about the recently deceased…
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Liis
Combine elemi resin, tobacco leaves, redwood pine, and incense, and you get a hypnotic fragrance reminiscent of a coastal artist conclave…
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Sunshine Superman
“What goes on all around me? / What goes on? I really wanna know.” The third album from Scottish folk artist Donovan placed him alongside…
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
