The Runaway Groom

Stuart Heritage tells how Britain’s most-wanted con man bewitched, bamboozled, and embezzled …

Prince Among Men

Randee St. Nicholas, the photographer behind the largest-ever collection of images of the star, recalls the extraordinary experience of being in his orbit …

Shades of Blue: Part I

Mark Bowden tells the story of how a brutally murdered off-duty cop’s grieving family took a cold case into their own hands …

SEX

The ins and outs of the Canadian Kama Sutra (illustrated!) …

MYSTERY

So, who really killed Jimmy Hoffa? Errol Morris investigates …

ABIDING PASSIONS

Cultural shock: the pernicious, hitherto unexposed “Bob [Dylan] Project” …

MURDER

The final episode in the Letter from Lansy series …

Issue No. 24

The View from Here

By Alessandra Stanley

Few things seem as forced as all those end-of-the-decade retrospectives that list the most important people (Pope Francis, Tina Fey), worst disasters (the climate crisis, the Sopranos finale), or best podcasts…

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The Runaway Groom Britain’s most-wanted con man bewitched, bamboozled, and embezzled

By Stuart Heritage

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EPISODE VI: “Weekender Loonies and Sicko 212s!” A final missive from Lansy Everett, formerly of the New York Herald Tribune, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Vogue, Worth, and Harper’s Bazaar

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Shades of Blue Shots are fired outside an unsavory Tennessee bar, killing the proprietor—an off-duty cop. When the case goes cold, the cop’s grieving family takes matters into their own hands

By Mark Bowden

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Canadian Kama Sutra Happy New Year! Your long-awaited guide to romance north of the border is here

Written and Illustrated by

Godfrey Daniel

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A Midwinter Night’s Dream

By Michael Sragow

Walt Disney’s seven-part paean to classical music, Fantasia, opened in 1940 to calamitous box office. While reviews were mixed, few cartoon features have been as galvanizingly influential over Pop art and high art. This audiovisual smorgasbord animates eight basic repertory pieces—including The Rite of Spring—with fanciful stories, picturesque scenes, and abstract designs. On the high side, it gave American audiences their first chance to experience The Nutcracker as intoxicating dance. Decades later, after a smash 1969 re-release as a “trip” movie, it catalyzed a new genre: the classical-music video. READ ON

Featuring Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the Philadelphia Orchestra will perform segments of Disney’s Fantasia live in concert on January 3, 4, and 5.

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An Address Most Magical

By Ashley Hicks

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A porter on the Rope Walk, the Albany’s long, covered passageway that leads from the original mansion to a back entrance on Vigo Street, circa 1940s, photographed by Bill Brandt.

The gatehouse on Vigo Street that leads to the Albany chambers, 1926–27.

David Hicks’s 1995 redecoration of his apartment at Albany banished the geometric carpet, the female portraits, even the kitchen. The George II carved-and-gilded eagle tables came from Edwina Mountbatten’s Brook House, on Park Lane.

Ashley Hicks’s bedroom at Albany. The mirrored niche is flanked by a piece of coral stone and a hugely enlarged rabbit’s skull. Against the mirror stands a console table carved and gilded by Ashley Hicks in a form inspired by coral.

Actress Margaret Leighton, photographed by Norman Parkinson at home at Albany, circa 1950s.

Ashley Hicks’s 2015 re-do of his father’s apartment at Albany. Hicks painted the burlap-covered walls in chiaroscuro, with views of Constantinople in 1818. He designed the mismatched collection of furniture himself.

The Hicks family’s sitting room, as decorated by David Hicks in 1980. The walls are painted in Etruscan red, and a self-portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds hangs over the wood-burning fireplace. The furniture, including gilded swan chairs made by Jansen in 1937, were all inherited by Lady Pamela Hicks from her mother, Edwina Mountbatten.

Fleur Cowles, the creative force behind *Flair* magazine, as well as a painter and illustrator, at home at Albany, 1966.

David Hicks described his grand, damask-draped 1981 creation as “a bed to receive one’s doctor from, a bed to die in.” On the fireplace is a bust of his wife’s ancestor Lord Palmerston, whose standing desk is visible by the window.

The Albany house in Piccadilly, London, as photographed on March 28, 1955.

“New Year’s resolutions are fine, but we should really focus on our squad goals.”

Who Really Killed Jimmy Hoffa? (And was the frozen salmon a red herring?)

By Errol Morris

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Birds Are Losing the Climate Fight

Global warming causes some species to become smaller

By Nadeem Badshah

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The Speed Demons of Medellín “Gravity biking,” a wild sport in which teenage boys hurtle down steep streets on bicycles at 70 m.p.h., is taking over Colombia

By Joe Parkin Daniels

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“Have you tried doing the thing you just told me you tried?”

Lace up Crochet Sneakers Look, we don’t want to go running, either. But there is nothing like the holiday afterglow, when our jeans…

Layer Away Windbreaker When Nike debuted the Windrunner jacket, in 1978, the brand’s transition from sneaker purveyor to global fashion…

Stash It The All-Purpose Tote Chances are, you need a new gym bag. It’s nothing personal, but any accessory whose sole job…

Unwind A Bit of Pampering It takes a lot to impress us in the spa realm. We’ve been loyal to the Greenwich Hotel’s facials…

Lace up Crochet Sneakers Look, we don’t want to go running, either. But there is nothing like the holiday afterglow, when our jeans…

Layer Away Windbreaker When Nike debuted the Windrunner jacket, in 1978, the brand’s transition from sneaker purveyor to global fashion…

Stash It The All-Purpose Tote Chances are, you need a new gym bag. It’s nothing personal, but any accessory whose sole job…

Unwind A Bit of Pampering It takes a lot to impress us in the spa realm. We’ve been loyal to the Greenwich Hotel’s facials…

Ars Longa, Bullshit Longer How we are fooled by pretentious titles on art

By Tom Whipple

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The Brooklyn of the North Sea Fermented blubber and other chef’s delicacies lure die-hard foodies to the Faroe Islands

By Bipasha Ghosh

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Bonjour Tristesse Once again, the French novelist Michel Houellebecq is a step ahead of current events. But his themes are timeless

By Lee Smith

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Lee Child On the unlikely books that offer a break from your routine reads

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“Same thing every year. You can’t get them to do a blessed thing the week between Christmas and New Year’s.”

James Kirchick On

The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves

by Andrew Lownie

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John Banville On

The Sacrament

by Olaf Olafsson

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Prince Among Men The photographer behind My Name Is Prince, the largest-ever collection of images of the star, recalls the extraordinary experience of being in his orbit

By Randee St. Nicholas

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Wagner Takes Brisbane

To followers of Richard Wagner, the none-too-enthralling Bavarian market town of Bayreuth is the navel of the world, for that is where the master built his “theater of the future,” the Festspielhaus, specially designed for his 17-hour, four-evening epic, “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” Things might have turned out otherwise; for a time, when money was tighter than usual, the spendthrift megalomaniac considered pulling up stakes for greener pastures in Minnesota. One wonders how many of the crowned heads, fellow composers, and other glitterati who assembled for the inaugural three-“Ring” circus in August 1876 would have followed him there. Maybe not even Dom Pedro II of Brazil? READ ON

Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen, who is set to lead Opera Queensland’s production of Tristan und Isolde in Brisbane come fall. Also in Brisbane, a new production of Wagner’s “Ring” rounds out the fall 2020 season.

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Discover

The Bob Project

My 25-year quest to sneak Dylan references into absolutely everything

By Duff McDonald

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Watch The Apartment ’Tis the season to argue over what to watch after dinner, a holiday tradition that can get tiresome…

Listen The Time for Peace Is Now In 1998, David Byrne founded the Luaka Bop label to “turn friends on to stuff I liked.”…

Carry On The Essential Duffel We first learned about the Patagonia Black Hole Duffel 55L from a foreign-correspondent friend…

Peep Wittiest Instagram There aren’t many opportunities (especially of late) to laugh with the royal family.…

Eat Zagat 2020 Apps have made a wealth of dining reviews available in an instant, but sometimes all that’s needed to assure a restaurant’s quality…

Fly Electric Seaplane Electric cars have made city streets somewhat quieter and cleaner over the past decade. Now we may be a bit closer…

Watch The Apartment ’Tis the season to argue over what to watch after dinner, a holiday tradition that can get tiresome…

Listen The Time for Peace Is Now In 1998, David Byrne founded the Luaka Bop label to “turn friends on to stuff I liked.”…

Carry On The Essential Duffel We first learned about the Patagonia Black Hole Duffel 55L from a foreign-correspondent friend…

Peep Wittiest Instagram There aren’t many opportunities (especially of late) to laugh with the royal family.…

Eat Zagat 2020 Apps have made a wealth of dining reviews available in an instant, but sometimes all that’s needed to assure a restaurant’s quality…

Fly Electric Seaplane Electric cars have made city streets somewhat quieter and cleaner over the past decade. Now we may be a bit closer…

Ask Richard

By Richard David Story

I’ve been hearing a lot about Hudson Yards, and am tempted to hole up there on my next visit to New York, but the location—in the middle of nowhere, really—is worrying. Will I find enough to do in that neighborhood to keep me entertained? …

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A Very Air Mail Holiday Monkey Bar’s Mountain Frost Punch

By The Monkey Bar

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“Remember, my cover story is that I’m leaving politics to spend time with you.”

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The Runaway Groom Britain’s most-wanted con man bewitched, bamboozled, and embezzled

EPISODE VI: “Weekender Loonies and Sicko 212s!” A final missive from Lansy Everett, formerly of the New York Herald Tribune, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Vogue, Worth, and Harper’s Bazaar

Shades of Blue Shots are fired outside an unsavory Tennessee bar, killing the proprietor—an off-duty cop. When the case goes cold, the cop’s grieving family takes matters into their own hands

Canadian Kama Sutra Happy New Year! Your long-awaited guide to romance north of the border is here

An Address Most Magical

Who Really Killed Jimmy Hoffa? (And was the frozen salmon a red herring?)

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Providence

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Global warming causes some species to become smaller

The Speed Demons of Medellín “Gravity biking,” a wild sport in which teenage boys hurtle down steep streets on bicycles at 70 m.p.h., is taking over Colombia

Ars Longa, Bullshit Longer How we are fooled by pretentious titles on art

The Brooklyn of the North Sea Fermented blubber and other chef’s delicacies lure die-hard foodies to the Faroe Islands

Bonjour Tristesse Once again, the French novelist Michel Houellebecq is a step ahead of current events. But his themes are timeless

Lee Child On the unlikely books that offer a break from your routine reads

Prince Among Men The photographer behind My Name Is Prince, the largest-ever collection of images of the star, recalls the extraordinary experience of being in his orbit

My 25-year quest to sneak Dylan references into absolutely everything

A Very Air Mail Holiday Monkey Bar’s Mountain Frost Punch

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Arts Intel Report Editor

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