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The British billionaire who groped his way to the bottom.
In a toga, no less …

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Scott Z. Burns reveals the hospitality tricks the C.I.A.
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Disruption

Life—make that death—of the party! Funerals should be cheery and fun …

Sex

Goop for the sensual set. And there’s an app for that …

The Criminal Element

Tunnel of weed: take a whiff at what’s beneath a former
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The Planet

Devastating floods swamp Venice and one of its most beloved treasures …

Music

Still having circadian-rhythm issues?
Norah Jones,
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Issue No. 18

The View from Here

By Graydon Carter

Ambassador Gordon Sondland. It has a nice ring to it…

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Dave Eggers Takes On Donald Trump A conversation about his new book—and what Obama gets right about our current culture

By Michael Hainey

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The Sex App Ferly, the digital platform that tells you everything you wanted to know about libido and “self-pleasure”

By Anna Maxted

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Reefer Madness Pot dealers literally go underground to tend a $50 million cannabis farm below the center of London

By Jim Norton and Paul Bracchi

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Inside the C.I.A.’s Tortured Logic Why did the agency give two idiots $80 million in taxpayer money for illegal torture ideas? The writer and director of The Report shares his unredacted thoughts

By Scott Z. Burns

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Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes and Raymundo de Larrain, photographed in 1961 by Richard Avedon.

Rootless Metropolitan A foreign correspondent retraces E. B. White’s 1949 love letter to the city he left, Here Is New York

By Harry Mount

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“I assure you, Chuck is completely stable—no need to question his sanity. Nope, perfectly fine. Better than fine—great! Chuck’s doing great. Now onto the quarterly report.”

Flood Zone Venice, its masterpieces, and its gondolas are underwater and floundering

By Tom Kington

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Nouvelle Vague

The French New Wave film posters quickly became as groundbreaking as the 50s and 60s films themselves. A new book highlights the designers behind the movement’s explosive aesthetic

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*Mon Oncle* (1958), French. Art by Pierre Étaix.

*Un Homme et une Femme* (1966), French. Art by René Ferracci.

*L’Année Dernière à Marienbad* (1961), German. Poster by the German distribution and production company Constantin Filmverleih GmbH, artist unknown.

*Le Mépris* (1963), Polish. Art by Janusz Rapnicki.

*Lola* (1961), Italian. Art by Sandro Symeoni.

*Made in USA* (1966), French. Art by René Ferracci.

*Fahrenheit 451* (1966), Hungarian. Poster by György Kemény.

*Les Amants* (1958), French. Art by Jacques Fourastié.

Sir Spankalot A knighted British retail billionaire who partied with Beyoncé and Leonardo DiCaprio now faces ruin and misdemeanor-assault charges

By Stuart Heritage

Illustration by André Carrilho

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Last Call
In his new venture, Exit Here, Oliver Peyton brings his velvet-rope, nightlife-impresario approach to the funeral business

By Damian Whitworth

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“Of course I still love you. It’s just that after all these years your pheromones stimulate my desire to read.”

Karita Mattila has noticed something curious lately. When her rehearsals run longer than those of junior colleagues, they tend to stick around and watch. “It brings to mind when I was a student, doing master classes with the great stars or just being in the audience,” she says. “I remember everything those legends said and did. In the 37 years I’ve been in the business, I’ve had a fantastic number of awesome conductors and directors with whom I’ve learned a lot and achieved wonderful results. So I have a lot to give.” READ ON

Karita Mattila as Elsa in a 1996 production of Lohengrin. More than 20 years later, the Finnish singer shows no sign of stopping; she stars in another production of the opera opening November 21 at Munich’s National Theatre. Read On

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Focus Seeoo Glasses Perhaps you’ve arrived at the point in life where reading glasses might prove a bit helpful…

Layer Away The Silk-Velvet Blazer Trotting out a festive look for a holiday party sounds like such fun in November…

Clip On The Hair Bauble Before a party, we would much prefer to spend our time cocktailing, rather than languishing in a salon…

Sling on The Evening Bag While there is a time and place for a bejeweled minaudière, this free-form, gilded rendition…

Wear The Festive Earring When in Cartagena, a stop at jewelry designer Mercedes Salazar’s charming shop on Santa Teresa is as essential…

Focus Seeoo Glasses Perhaps you’ve arrived at the point in life where reading glasses might prove a bit helpful…

Layer Away The Silk-Velvet Blazer Trotting out a festive look for a holiday party sounds like such fun in November…

Clip On The Hair Bauble Before a party, we would much prefer to spend our time cocktailing, rather than languishing in a salon…

Sling on The Evening Bag While there is a time and place for a bejeweled minaudière, this free-form, gilded rendition…

Wear The Festive Earring When in Cartagena, a stop at jewelry designer Mercedes Salazar’s charming shop on Santa Teresa is as essential…

The Stone Age

The artisan who taught the artist the secrets that led to the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Japan

By Patricia Zohn

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Dora Maar’s World

As creator or subject, the French artist Dora Maar was a part of some of the 20th century’s most arresting images. She gave us the haunting photograph of a manicured hand emerging from a seashell, set against an ominous night sky. Yet in the eyes of Pablo Picasso, her lover, who painted her rather aggressively, she was “the weeping woman.” A central figure in the Surrealist movement of the 1920s and 1930s, Maar developed a status as a muse and self-styled icon that sometimes surpassed her recognition as an artist. READ ON

Untitled (Fashion Photograph), by Dora Maar. An exhibition of the artist’s work opens at the Tate Modern, in London, on November 20. Read On

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