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Crime and Scandal


An American Tragedy in London

Joshua Pack had money, family, and a new life in one of London’s toniest enclaves. Then the private-equity star was found dead inside his palatial St. John’s Wood home

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The Thorn in Netanyahu’s Side America and Israel are both ruled by leaders with autocratic ambitions. Only one country has an attorney general putting the law above loyalty


An Elegy for Colbert It’s Trump’s F.C.C., not Stephen Colbert, that represents a threat to public decency

Latest Issue • May 16, 2026
Issue No. 357
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Opening Act A Memorial Day guide for the unofficial start of summer. Things for long weekends, outdoor dinners, dressing for heat, and settling back into seasonal life

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Mayday! Cambridge’s most infamous party girl tips her hat to Dafydd Jones, the society photographer whose latest book captures more than 40 years of the school’s hedonistic May Balls

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Lady Chatterley’s Legacy Guy Cuthbertson examines the impact of D.H. Lawrence’s sensational novel, from numerous obscenity trials to its fascist undertones

Steve Jobs’s Lost Decade After being forced out of Apple in 1985, its founder spent 12 years running a floundering start-up. A new book claims this exile set the stage for Silicon Valley’s greatest comeback story


Each Man Is an Island Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say follows a high school teacher as he feels increasingly alienated within his coastal Massachusetts community

Winston Churchill’s Alter Ego An exhibition in London re-introduces Churchill as a painter—a hobby he took up in the summer of 1915, amidst the depressive slump that followed his ousting from the Admiralty

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Guest Edit

Emma Webster’s Favorite Things Working between virtual reality, sculpture, and paint, the Los Angeles artist constructs landscapes that feel both familiar and subtly off-kilter. Here, her edit extends that approach into objects that suggest a world just slightly reimagined

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The Talented Dr. Gray As priceless heirlooms disappeared from the homes of Newport bluebloods and Georgetown ambassadors, Lawrence Gray remained above suspicion—and on the guest list

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