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Issue No. 111

The View from Here Al Gore says it’s not too late to prevent cataclysmic climate change, but is it too late for us to change?

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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Ooh La La! Inside the bedroom of Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron …

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The Winklevoss Wrinkle After years of post-Facebook conniving, the Winklevosses were finally on the road to redemption. Then they met another set of troublemaking twins

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J.F.K. and the Radcliffe Girl For the first time ever, one of the former president’s lovers tells her story

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What It Was Like to Date John F. Kennedy Sixty years after her affair with the president ended, a woman looks back

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Cruise Control So much for your nether regions. Gwyneth Paltrow now wants to fiddle with your vacation!

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George Clooney, Kendall Jenner, and the Great Tequila Crisis And other curious news about these strange days …

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“It’s a great manuscript, but our mandate has shifted from championing new writers to enslaving planet Earth.”
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My Favorite Things Hollywood writer, filmmaker, and lifelong Anglophile Paul Feig has honed an unmistakable, rather formal aesthetic over the course of his career, but he brandishes an edgier side, with a penchant for macabre jewelry. Herewith, the items that occupy Feig’s attention of late

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The Bright Side of Life A swarm of musicals open in London’s West End, proving that both the fun and the show must go on

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No Skin in the Game Millennials and Gen Z–ers are all about empowerment and freeing the nipple. So why aren’t they embracing the nudism movement?

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Joan of Art Joan Mitchell, who revolutionized postwar American art alongside “Ninth Street women” Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning, finally gets her due

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Lost in Translation The moment Japan opened its doors to the West, in the late 1800s, was the moment many of its traditions disappeared. A new volume brings them back


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A Hello to Arms Ernest Hemingway: renowned novelist, bullfighting aficionado, and … Spanish guerrilla fighter?

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In Memoriam

Richard David Story (1952–2021)

Issue No. 111
August 28, 2021
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Issue No. 111
August 28, 2021

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