The Cult of Leto


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Six years ago this summer, Jared Leto’s followers descended on Mars Island, a private resort off the coast of Croatia. For three days, fans—many of them young women, some of them paying more than $6,499...

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I can’t believe that Elon Musk is leaving DOGE, the government department he named after a tired and basic meme that most of the internet had moved on from around a decade ago. “As my...

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With seven legs and 118 shows Oasis set out on what would be their final world tour, starting in Seattle on August 28, 2008. It was planned to end in Milan a year later.Despite the...

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When Adam Scott was working on the hit TV show Parks and Recreation in the early 2010s, the Los Angeles studio where the show was filmed was packed—“every stage was filled and working”.These days, he...

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The Mark Hotel’s one-of-a-kind 70-foot Herreshoff sailboat returns to New York, offering an elegant way to take in the city ...

Canteen, a much-hyped Italian restaurant at the very top of the Portobello Road, in London, opened in October ...

The Alfie Tych Film CameraThis 35-mm. camera gives you the joy of analog photography—without the self-seriousnessThe revival in film photography continues apace. Younger photographers in particular can’t get enough of the novelty of having to...

Mystique surrounds the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby, the eponymous hero of the quintessential American novel. Who exactly is he, where did he come from and how did he make his fortune?In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel,...

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People think of drug testing as the omniscient, infallible arbiter of guilt and innocence in competitive sports. When I set out to write a book about doping in the monied, occasionally aristocratic sport of Thoroughbred...

It was a Palladino night, indeed. “If I get into a fight, I’ll let you know,” Amy Sherman-Palladino told me on Tuesday evening, giggling beside her longtime creative partner and husband, Daniel Palladino, when I...

At one point in Materialists, Celine Song’s new film about a matchmaker torn between the perfect guy and her struggling ex, Lucy (played by Dakota Johnson) goes to see a play with her new boyfriend...

Golf is—apologies to fans, the ground is gonna get a little rough—inert material for TV and film. It’s not explosively combative like say football, either American or actual. In golf, players interact with the environment,...

Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto has starred in films ranging from American Psycho to House of Gucci. Now he stands accused of impropriety and grooming by 10 women. Our writer Elena Clavarino has her report. Then...

The Glackens name will ring a bell with art buffs and writers. William Glackens (1870–1938), a key figure in the Ashcan School, was known for his vibrant scenes of city life. His wife, Edith Dimock...

In 2018, the New England outfitter L.L. Bean discontinued their famed no-proof-of-purchase lifetime-returns policy, which the retailer had offered since its founding, in 1912. The new policy instituted a dramatically reduced, one-year return window, a...

The arts patrons of today could learn something from Jean, the Duke of Berry. The third son of John II, the king of France from 1350 to 1364, Jean had a treasure chest of disposable...

Kate Bellm is an accidental hotelier. Just over 10 years ago, the British photographer known for her work with Vogue and Gucci moved to Majorca’s Serra de Tramuntana region, on its northwestern coast. After making...

The hyphen in Molly Jong-Fast’s last name bridges two distinct lineages of wordsmiths. Her father, Jonathan Fast—an author in his own right—is the son of Spartacus writer Howard Fast (often known by his pen name,...