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The Womb Boom Once merely expensive, surrogacy has become a luxury arms race, with private equity snapping up clinics, agencies, and egg banks. Can a new $600,000 white-glove service really be worth it?

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The New Capital of Chardonnay Long known for its Pinot Noirs, Oregon’s Willamette Valley is unexpectedly producing some of the world’s finest Chardonnays. Our columnist charts the white-wine revolution out West


Flipping ’Ell! Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s attempt to flip a $30 million Cotswolds farmhouse has been thwarted by floods, planning battles, an anemic property market—and the Romans

Golden Balls Ticket prices for this year’s World Cup are already sky-high. But some luxury packages—complete with police escorts, cigar rollers, and Tibetan singing bowls—can turn a trip to the game into a seven-figure spectacle

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WAGs Just Want to Have Fun Victoria Beckham, Shakira, Georgina Rodríguez … In time for the World Cup, a look at the wives and girlfriends of soccer players who have long stolen the spotlight from the beautiful game

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If Ayatollah Once… Stolen Revolution tells the story of post-revolutionary Iran through the individuals who fought back against the repressive theocracy—often at great personal cost

The Hardest Day’s Night With photographs by Jim Marshall, a new coffee-table book revisits the charged, melancholy night the Beatles played the last concert of their final tour


What’s Don Is Don In Twilight of the Dons, Colin Kidd revisits the golden age of Oxford and Cambridge’s academics, from World War II to Thatcherism

Bigger, Better, Starrier Twelve years after its brief run on Broadway, Sting brings The Last Ship, his autobiographical passion project, to the Metropolitan Opera House

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School’s Out. So Are We A summer-break guide for grown-ups. Things for getting away, staying out, answering fewer e-mails, and treating September as a problem for a future version of yourself

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In the Pink After securing an all-new team for just $25 million in the city of his choice, David Beckham brought Lionel Messi, the world’s most popular player, to Miami and may well have changed the sport in the U.S. forever

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