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Jared Does Albania Albanian conservation groups are up in arms over the president’s son-in-law’s $1.4 billion luxury resort development on the uninhabited—and uninhabitable—island of Sazan

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The Soul Singer from North London On the 10th anniversary of George Michael’s death, a new biography revisits the “Father Figure” singer’s complex relationship with American R&B


Slouching Towards Istanbul What a decade in Erdoğan’s authoritarian Turkey taught me about the long, bloody shadow of America’s foreign wars

Woman of Mystery Marilyn Monroe continues to fascinate us a century on, because we’re still trying to figure her out

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The Royal Treatment From The Crown to Love Story, Hollywood’s enduring fascination with the Windsors and the Kennedys has cemented their mythos for the next generation—but at what cost?

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Murder, They Wrote This month in mysteries: James Comey’s new espionage thriller and the latest installment in Anthony Horowitz’s meta-mystery series

Fire Island Time A new coffee-table book looks beyond the island’s reputation as a queer summer utopia, revealing it, for the first time, as a creative hub that influenced artists from Richard Avedon to Wolfgang Tillmans


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

The Unstoppable Jasper Johns A retrospective in Bilbao, Spain, collects decades of work by the last great living survivor of the postwar generation

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Love Game A tennis edit for those who understand that courtside attendance comes with its own dress code, unspoken rules, and a certain expectation of effortless competence, even if you never step on the court

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Foul Play How a group of former basketball players teamed up with a dodgy Beverly Hills dentist to defraud the N.B.A. out of $1 million

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