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The Return of the Tom Wolfe Literary Prizes

Back for a second year, the prizes honor new fiction and reportage that dares to make sense of our confusing times

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A Sonic Switcheroo at Mar-a-Lago Trump spent decades trying to stop planes flying over his club. Now his neighbors say he has finally succeeded—making their palatial homes unlivable


With Lifestyle Porn, Meghan The Duchess of Sussex’s latest Instagram foray hints at many things: her picture-perfect marriage, her glamorous Montecito life, and—what else?—a brewing next act

Latest Issue • June 13, 2026
Issue No. 361
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Air Supply

For the Love of the Game A collection for the ancestrally approximate, the internationally affiliated via romance, and anyone who has ever learned a chant phonetically and committed to it completely

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All You Need Is George Martin The genteel record producer did not look the part of a revolutionary. But as a commemorative new book makes clear, his wildly innovative work with the Beatles changed pop music forever

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Mother Knows Best Seven Sisters tells the story of how Empress Maria Theresia secured the Habsburg dynasty through the marriages of her seven daughters—including Marie Antoinette

If Ayatollah Once… Stolen Revolution tells the story of post-revolutionary Iran through the individuals who fought back against the repressive theocracy—often at great personal cost


The Tweet Escape San Francisco gave away $70 million in tax revenue to lure the nascent social-media company to its bleakest neighborhood. Was it worth it?

Barbara Hepworth’s True Colors An exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, in London, reveals how the British modernist brought color into her abstract sculptures and geometric drawings

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Guest Edit

Roger Bennett’s Favorite Things The Men in Blazers founder shares the essentials of a life lived with deep conviction, good shoes, and an Italian truffle hound named Martin Scorsese

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The Wreck of the Bayesian To celebrate the end of a 12-year legal ordeal, billionaire Mike Lynch set sail on his “unsinkable” 184-foot yacht. The Fates weren’t with him

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