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Sherpas to the Jet Set Travel agents have been reborn as fixers for the super-rich—staging $80,000 scavenger hunts, chartering emergency jets, and ensuring that “No” is never the final answer

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The Prodigal Spare Returns! Six years after fleeing royal life for California, Harry and Meghan are returning to Britain—with their children, their grievances, and, perhaps, a camera crew in tow


The Fantasists Who Fooled Putin In 2024, the Russian president was left a mysterious art collection said to be worth $2 billion. Is he the world’s luckiest dictator or the heir to a hoarder’s junk pile?

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Francesco Carrozzini’s Favorite Things The films, books, objects, and everyday essentials of a director whose eye has been shaped by fashion, cinema, and a lifetime of extraordinary images

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Cohn Job In American Scoundrel, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird turns his attentions to Roy Cohn, fixer to Donald Trump and Joseph McCarthy

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A House Divided A couple’s marriage unravels against the backdrop of a near-future America splintered by civil war in Kurt Andersen’s new novel.

Free-Falling In Richard Russo’s new thriller, Under the Falls, a Nashville singer returns to his hometown to make amends—but the mistakes of his past soon resurface, with fatal repercussions for the present


Hallo, Hot Stuff! A new coffee-table book pays homage to the bodybuilder turned actor turned governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Diamonds Are Not Forever An exhibition in the Netherlands celebrates René Lalique, the French jeweler who closed the door on the Belle Époque and ushered in a livelier, less formal chapter in the history of the craft

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Gondola with the Wind Everything worth bringing to a city where the scenic route is, more often than not, the only route

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Chris Whittle’s Teachable Moment The charter-school entrepreneur went from being one of the most acclaimed operators in the education sphere to losing everything. Will he be able to make a comeback?

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