The View from Here

Graydon Carter on the International Best-Dressed List and the woman who perhaps did more for the American clothing industry than any other single individual …

If Greenland’s Not for Sale, How about Britain?

Andrew O’Hagan reports on why Boris Johnson has been dragging a dead cat around Europe, pretending it’s the tiger of a vital new economy …

Seoul-Crushing

Amelia Lester looks into the highest level of Korean society and learns that the former star of K-pop’s biggest band is under investigation for running a prostitution ring …

Issue No. 7

It Was an All Too Typical Week for …

… the Chosen One, who, having announced that he would raise tariffs on Chinese goods and referred to President Xi Jinping as the “enemy,” in short order declared that Xi was in fact “a great leader” and that, anyway, he was having “second thoughts” about those tariffs. Or was he? White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said the president’s remarks had been “greatly misinterpreted.” This seems plausible: “second thoughts” implies there were first thoughts to begin with, and there’s never been much evidence of that.

But the misunderstanding did get the G7 meetings off to a rollicking start, and over several days in Biarritz…

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Issue No. 7

The View from Here

By Graydon Carter

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Seoul-Crushing The former star of K-pop’s biggest band is under investigation for running a prostitution ring, among other indecorous charges

By Amelia Lester

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Germany Bagging Plastic In the past four years, Germany has cut its use of plastic bags by 64 percent. That’s not enough for Svenja Schulze, minister of…

France … And Points Unknown Nom de What? If you’ve been in France recently, you may have seen military kiosks…

U.K. And the Name on Your Reservation, Madam? A boutique London hotel, 1 Lexham Gardens, has repeatedly refused to erect…

If Greenland’s Not for Sale, How About Britain? In which Boris Johnson threatens to take back the dead cat that is the U.K. economy

By Andrew O'Hagan

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Bauhaus Revival

Founded in 1919 by the pioneering architect Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus—a brief and brilliant bloom in the cultural hothouse of Germany’s Weimar Republic—is typically remembered as the birthplace of modern style. Yet more than a style, the Bauhaus represents a cultural coming-of-age. READ ON

A Bauhaus exhibition poster by Joost Schmidt. In Berlin, a weeklong celebration starting August 31 honors the Bauhaus at 100.

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Next in Line In Season Two of HBO’s Succession, Sarah Snook proves she’s worthy of the Roy throne

By Josh Duboff

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In the Picture

By Laura Jacobs

She prefers not to give us her full face, favoring a three-quarter view. The jawline is long and elegant, the chin often up, her eyes large, round, and wary. She likes to keep a shoulder between herself and her audience. Helene Schjerfbeck, who lived from 1862 to 1946, was a national treasure in her native Finland, and a visionary artist. She produced more than 1,000 paintings in her lifetime—portraits, landscapes, still lifes—but it’s the self-portraits that tell her story most eloquently. READ ON

Girl from Eydtkuhne II, 1927. “Helene Schjerfbeck” is on view at the Royal Academy of Arts, in London, through October 27.

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“Was It Good for Me?” An impassioned plea to prioritize sexual well-being

By Liz Goldwyn

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Candice Bergen, Star Reporter A “very lucky” actor and the photojournalism career that got away

By Sam Kashner

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Candice Bergen, photographed by Julian Wasser in California, 1969.

*Top:* Muhammad Ali, Munich, Germany, 1976. *Above:* Jane Goodall, Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, 1976.

Paul Newman on the set of *Pocket Money,* Nogales, Arizona, 1971.

*Top:* Bergen, photographed by Elliott Erwitt at a Ku Klux Klan rally outside of New Orleans, early 1970s. *Above:* David Duke at the same rally.

Sonny and Cher, Bel Air, California, 1967.

*Top:* Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin, Pacific Palisades, California, 1972. *Above:* Bergen, Peter Bogdanovich, and Orson Welles, photographed by Bob Willoughby on the set of *Catch-22,* Guaymas, Mexico, 1969.

Huey P. Newton, Oakland, California, 1971.

*Top:* President Gerald Ford and Bergen, photographed by David Hume Kennerly on Air Force One, 1975. *Above:* Bergen and Welles, photographed by Bob Willoughby on the set of *Catch-22,* 1969.

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The Literary Industrial Complex Italy has more book festivals than it has books

By Eli Gottlieb

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War Games

Shamble into London’s National Army Museum for the exhibition “The Art of Persuasion: Wartime Posters by Abram Games” and you’ll stride out taller—chin raised, posture erect, snapping off crisp salutes at passersby. September 1 marks the 80th anniversary of Germany’s invasion of Poland, which plunged Europe into a second world war. This arcade of wartime and postwar propaganda commemorates the power of one man’s spartan imagination to rouse Britain to face the momentous challenge. READ ON

A poster for the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women’s branch of the British Army during W.W. II. “The Art of Persuasion” is on view through November 24.

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