The Fall of the House of Astor A posthumous memoir from the son of New York society’s departed queen offers a self-serving perspective on an infamous scandal
Baby Reindeer Games The hit Netflix show about stalking has bled into real life as social-media sleuths hound—and threaten—the actual people the story is based on
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No. 251
Eurovision Gets Serious
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TECH AND BALANCES
LONG AND WINDING ROAD
FAMILY MISFORTUNES
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Diptyque
Verlet, the French coffee company headquartered on the Rue Saint-Honoré, has been churning out delicately roasted beans…
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Van Cleef & Arpels
The glass, polished-brass, and granite storefronts on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue just became a lot more colorful with Van Cleef &…
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Our First 100 Years
Founded in London 100 years ago by a father-and-son-in-law duo determined to craft the perfect waxed-leather jackets for…
The Wife That History Forgot A new discovery sheds fresh light on Alice Hathaway Lee, Theodore Roosevelt’s first love, who was largely written off as inconsequential in the president’s life
Fact and Fiction Claire Messud’s latest novel, This Strange Eventful History, chronicles three generations of a single family as they whirl about the globe
Mommie May I? A. Ashley Hoff revisits the unintentional camp classic Mommie Dearest, adapted from Joan Crawford’s daughter’s damning tell-all
Morphine, Booze, and Roaring Brian Cox, Succession’s raging paterfamilias, takes on a Eugene O’Neill classic alongside a dazzling Patricia Clarkson
Crime and Scandal
Gérard Depardieu’s #MeToo Scandal Has Divided France
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