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The View from Here Are the woke in the pockets of the plutocrats? They’re certainly doing a nice job of distracting people from economic injustice

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Teflon John(son) Can an all-time career low get Boris Johnson down?

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Sons of Anarchy How an F.B.I. informant stopped the gun-crazed, conspiracy-theorizing group behind the plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer

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The Very Online and the Restless Meet the “Fantasy Boyfriends” of TikTok—and the young fans who worship them

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Read Modern English When it comes to eye-filling illustrated books on interior design, whether it’s the work of one person or a collection of many visions… Layer Devold of Norway Do you have poor circulation? You don’t have to answer that. Even if you simply detest the cold, help is here in the form of Devold of Norway Shop Tiffany & Co. Pop-Up Not that we need another excuse to while away an afternoon in the West Village, but Tiffany & Co.’s beautiful new pop-up Listen Bad Bets On the list of best-known F.B.I. cases, which includes the 1932 Lindbergh-baby kidnapping and D. B. Cooper’s 1971 hijacking… Watch Valley of Tears It’s not surprising that some of the best Israeli television shows focus on either war (Fauda, Prisoners of War) or religion (Shtisel)… Drink Overstory We are not easily shocked. But then we found ourselves in Manhattan’s financial district, on the 64th floor of 70 Pine Street Read Modern English When it comes to eye-filling illustrated books on interior design, whether it’s the work of one person or a collection of many visions… Layer Devold of Norway Do you have poor circulation? You don’t have to answer that. Even if you simply detest the cold, help is here in the form of Devold of Norway Shop Tiffany & Co. Pop-Up Not that we need another excuse to while away an afternoon in the West Village, but Tiffany & Co.’s beautiful new pop-up Listen Bad Bets On the list of best-known F.B.I. cases, which includes the 1932 Lindbergh-baby kidnapping and D. B. Cooper’s 1971 hijacking… Watch Valley of Tears It’s not surprising that some of the best Israeli television shows focus on either war (Fauda, Prisoners of War) or religion (Shtisel)… Drink Overstory We are not easily shocked. But then we found ourselves in Manhattan’s financial district, on the 64th floor of 70 Pine Street
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My Favorite Things Sara Moonves, the editor in chief of W magazine and an established taste-maker, spotlights her essentials

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See No Evil When Hollywood optioned Albert Speer’s self-serving memoir, the Nazi architect found willing collaborators

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A Heist of Grape Audacity And other strange news about these curious days …

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Fashion Plates Why are so many luxury houses opening their own restaurants?

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L.A. Confidential Jeff Klein’s San Vicente Bungalows is the hottest watering hole in Hollywood. But can its secrets stay safe?

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The Podcast Everyone’s Talking About Smart takes, a new issue, and the inside story on the making of the U.S. version of The Office. Morning Meeting has it all

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Matthias Schweighöfer The German actor, who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, discovered Western cinema when the Berlin Wall fell

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Shadowed by the Shoah

Maryan S. Maryan’s early painting Crematorium at Auschwitz (1949) depicts an expressionistic tangle of greenish limbs, grasping hands, reptilian faces, and the flames of an incipient furnace. It was created in Israel when the artist, who was born in Poland in 1927 and miraculously survived Auschwitz (though not without losing a leg), still called himself Pinchas Burstein. The painting was one of several Holocaust-themed pictures that featured in the young Burstein’s first solo exhibition, in Jerusalem in 1950. READ ON

The haunting Crematorium at Auschwitz, by Maryan S. Maryan, part of an exhibition of the artist’s work opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami on November 17.

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Welcome to Dunder Mifflin Ricky Gervais, Greg Daniels, Jenna Fischer, Steve Carell, John Krasinski, and others tell the unlikely story of how the U.S. Office came to be

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The Trumper’s Dilemma What’s a Trump aide to do after a lost election? A new book reveals the roads taken by Jared Kushner and Rudy Giuliani—and their disastrous effects

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Books

On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times

by Michael Ignatieff
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Dreams of Flight: “The Great Escape” in American Film and Culture

by Dana Polan
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Open Book

All Hail the King A new book looks back at the singular life and illustrious career of American singer and jazz pianist Nat King Cole


Not Your Classic Hollywood Ending The Game of Thrones finale is as controversial today as it was the night it first aired, in 2019. Now we know why

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Into the Blue

Feeling internally defoliated, beset with bleakness, and sorrowful to a Scandinavian degree? It’s just fall. Herewith, tracks to set the tone

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Saturday in the park: a quiet afternoon in Mosebacke, Stockholm.
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In Memoriam

Richard David Story (1952–2021)

Issue No. 122
November 13, 2021
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Issue No. 122
November 13, 2021

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