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A Nanny State on the Charles

Harvard has come for what may be its last campus outlier: Dudley Co-op, a lefty co-living alternative to the polished, increasingly bland school culture

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Epstein’s Music-Camp Hunting Ground Sexual abuse was well underway when Jeffrey Epstein arrived at the Interlochen Arts Camp. It worsened when he returned to groom his next victims


The Curious Case of the Zendaya Spider Brooch Two historic jewelry houses claimed a yellow-sapphire piece worn on a Spider-Man red carpet as their own. Now it’s disappeared. What happened?

Latest Issue • August 8, 2026
Issue No. 369
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Air Supply

Class Is in Session For the kindergartner, the freshman, and the adult who never quite outgrew back-to-school season, because September deserves the right things, whatever grade you’re in

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Portrait of a Country “There aren’t many people in these images, but there is presence”: A new coffee-table book collects more than 100 photographs by Lee Friedlander, who has captured America’s essence over six decades

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Murder, They Wrote This summer’s best mystery books feature heroines of Homeric proportions, from a female police chief who resuscitates a tragic cold case to a union leader turned drug queenpin

A Tale of Two Names The editor of Kitchen Confidential attempts to reconcile Tony Bourdain, the socially awkward man she counted as a close friend, and Anthony Bourdain, the cool-cat global traveler the world came to love


The Director and the Madman Born one year apart, Roman Polanski and Charles Manson lived eerily parallel lives for years before finally intersecting at the brutal murder of Sharon Tate

America’s Sweetheart From Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi to Andy Warhol, Titanic to Ghostbusters II, an exhibition in Fort Worth, Texas, explores the history and legacy of the Statue of Liberty

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Guest Edit

Joey Jalleo’s Favorite Things The hospitality impresario behind the Boom Boom Room, Chateau Marmont, and Chiltern Firehouse shares his taste for Celine, Staub, Pasha de Cartier, and incense that smells like two a.m.

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The Battle for Club Med When a Chinese “gray rhino” bought the quintessential European travel firm, a struggle for the soul of the French icon broke out

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