Inside the Wiki Laundry Wikipedia is the world’s most influential information source—and one of A.I.’s key training grounds. No wonder reputation-launderers everywhere are trying to hijack it
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
Latest Issue • May. 16, 2026
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No. 357
An American Tragedy in London
PLUS
A LATE NIGHT TO REMEMBER
THE FASHION WHISPERER
BIBI’S NEMESIS
and more!
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Jouissance
There are very cool and interesting things happening in fragrance at the indie level these days, and Jouissance is one of them…
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Jim Thompson
It’s a compliment of sorts that readers best know the noir novelist Jim Thompson from the movies made from his works…
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Sandbox
At one point, the All-American Rejects seemed to be just a relic of the Y2K punk-rock past. Formed in 1999, they fit the scene…
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
Crime and Scandal
How One Woman Conned a Mayfair Jeweler in a $5.8 Million Diamond Theft
