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That was the week that was

Graydon Carter asks if a single image can sum up this moment in the American saga …

Bearing witness

Artists across the U.S. react to George Floyd’s killing …

Ice Capades

The cunning $4.5 million London jewel heist that channeled Ocean’s 11 …

Red lights turn amber

George Kalogerakis on how the coronavirus has forced sex workers to assume some (ahem) new positions …

Life After Lockdown

Bob Morris, our man in East Hampton, checks into a hotel. Can he leave his anxieties at the door? …

But First …
Issue No. 47

The View from Here

By Graydon Carter

In an age when 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, it is often a single indelible photograph that tells you where we are, where we’ve been, and who we are…

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A New Movement

Social (Media) Unrest For twentysomething protesters, passions run high. Not just in the streets but also on Instagram

By Shawn McCreesh
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
Past is Prologue

Red Summer A century ago, another U.S. president and his top cop turned a blind eye to violence against black Americans

By Carol Anderson
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Art

Say His Name. Remember His Face

How artists have reacted to George Floyd’s killing
By Nadja Sayej
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The Criminal Element

Diamonds Are a Thief’s Best Friend A daring and, some would say, inspired $4.5 million jewel heist in the middle of Mayfair

By John Simpson
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Small Talk
“Can we at least acknowledge the fact of how generationally diverse our board is?”
“Can we at least acknowledge the fact of how generationally diverse our board is?”
Modern Times

Bleach Party For enterprising hoteliers, paranoia is the new sustainability

By Bob Morris
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Past is Prologue II

Nazi Lockdown The German occupation crushed ordinary life in Paris as its citizens hid from the “brown plague”

By Ronald C. Rosbottom
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CHICAGO

Under cover: inside Van Gogh’s bedrooms …

Ravenna

Adriatic, here we come: the Ravenna Festival, featuring Mozart by Muti, is on …

PARIS

That 70s show: Sotheby’s auctions jewels by modernist Jean Després …

DUBLIN

Monologues from isolation: Ireland’s national theater recruits the country’s brightest performers …

NEW YORK

Summer is the new spring: here’s a second chance to catch Donald Judd and Dorothea Lange at MoMA …

Cars

The Road Less Traveled For adventurous drivers, lockdown has been a boon. For the car industry as we know it, it’s been all but a death warrant

By Jamie Kitman
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Style
The Sandals Freedom Moses Welcome to the most fun $45 you’ll spend all summer. Sarah Gurt, a footwear designer who once worked… The Skirt On the Island by Marios Schwab A city-ready summer skirt is maddeningly hard to find. It must be light and breezy, yes, but sufficiently… The Sleepwear Campo Collection Bedtime is looking better than ever thanks to Campo Collection’s new range of sleepwear. The brand’s… The Universal Face Wash Soy Face Cleanser It was love at first touch. From natural-beauty brand Fresh, this cleanser… The Sandals Freedom Moses Welcome to the most fun $45 you’ll spend all summer. Sarah Gurt, a footwear designer who once worked… The Skirt On the Island by Marios Schwab A city-ready summer skirt is maddeningly hard to find. It must be light and breezy, yes, but sufficiently… The Sleepwear Campo Collection Bedtime is looking better than ever thanks to Campo Collection’s new range of sleepwear. The brand’s… The Universal Face Wash Soy Face Cleanser It was love at first touch. From natural-beauty brand Fresh, this cleanser…
The Oldest Profession

Sex and the System In New York and in red-light districts around the world, intimacy just got even more complicated

By George Kalogerakis
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Television

“That’s What She Said!” (And He, Too) A brief, writers’-room oral history of The Office

By Simon Bland
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Small Talk
“And on that fateful night, Mr. Gregson, do you recall how many times Björn Borg won Wimbledon?”
“And on that fateful night, Mr. Gregson, do you recall how many times Björn Borg won Wimbledon?”
Food and Wine

Hunger Games Despite the pandemic, enterprising young chef Alexia Duchêne is determined to keep Parisians well fed

By Alexander Lobrano
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Open Book

Cyber Castoffs A visual history of computers that are gone but not forgotten

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Powered up: the Remington Rand Univac 120.
Color-coded: the HP.
Complex number: the A–M system.
Never too much information: the Datapoint 3300.
In other words: the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I.
On the button: the Ferranti Argus Process-Control Computer System.
The new normal: the SuperSoft Basic Tutor.
Lightning speed: the TEC Model 70.
All systems go: the Cray X-MP series of computer systems.
High-tech: the HITAC 10 High Performance Mini Computer.
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Books
Bruce Handy On

Sealand: The True Story of the World’s Most Stubborn Micronation and Its Eccentric Royal Family

by Dylan Taylor-Lehman
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Romesh Ratnesar On

Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

by David Shimer
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Small Talk
Close-up

Freddie Garland The young British florist delivering fresh, dazzling arrangements to all of the U.K.

By Bridget Arsenault
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Best
Listen 74 Seconds Four years ago this July, protesters were on the streets of Minnesota as they are today. They were demanding… Aston Martin DB5 Drive Aston Martin DB5 The Aston Martin DB5, which James Bond drove in Goldfinger and Skyfall, might be the most… Drink Breville Barista Express After lockdown began, I was hard-pressed to get a decent cup of coffee… Burn Diptyque I was never a candle guy. In our house, that was always my wife’s beat, filling our rooms with scents… Listen 74 Seconds Four years ago this July, protesters were on the streets of Minnesota as they are today. They were demanding… Aston Martin DB5 Drive Aston Martin DB5 The Aston Martin DB5, which James Bond drove in Goldfinger and Skyfall, might be the most… Drink Breville Barista Express After lockdown began, I was hard-pressed to get a decent cup of coffee… Burn Diptyque I was never a candle guy. In our house, that was always my wife’s beat, filling our rooms with scents…
Great Lives

James Sherwood In 1982, he boldly resurrected the fabled Orient Express. It became the cornerstone of Belmond, the billion-dollar hotel group

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