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Once upon a Time in Gala-Land

How a midnight dinner for fashion insiders became a multi-million-dollar media spectacle, culminating with this year’s sponsorship by none other than the Bezoses

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Pod Save the King! King Charles III’s recent visit to America brought a new ritual to high-society gatherings and, with it, a fresh status anxiety


Brain Trust Issues Elon Musk says OpenAI abandoned its mission to protect humanity. But is his own A.I. crusade any better?

Latest Issue • May 2, 2026
Issue No. 355
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Off You Go Graduation is a transition disguised as a celebration. The usual gifts mark the achievement; this edit is about what comes after—objects, tools, and small signals of a life that’s no longer instructed

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The Story of Jim and Jan In her new biography, Sara Wheeler portrays the intrinsic contradictions of the transgender travel writer

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Shred It! A new book traces the rise of British skateboarding in the 1980s, when the sport found its own grungy identity far from its Californian roots

Where Bob Dylan Met the Beatles From the Savoy in London to an airport hotel in Queens, the little-known story of the rooms where the musical giants forged a surprisingly close bond


Russia’s Greatest Love Machine Antony Beevor’s new biography of Grigori Rasputin argues that the controversial Russian adviser triggered the fall of Russia’s autocracy

All About Peter Six months after the release of Ira Sachs’s film Peter Hujar’s Day, three exhibitions in New York give long-overdue attention to the American photographer

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Guest Edit

Nathan Turner’s Favorite Things A California decorator’s guide to rooms that feel easy, lived-in, and entirely intentional. Here he chooses color, pattern, and the objects that quietly pull everything together

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The Devil Sells Prada Vogue editor and socialite Lauren Santo Domingo had dreams of disrupting Net-a-Porter. But in fashion there’s fantasy, and then there’s cold reality

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