April 16, 2022
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Helsinki Discord

Tim Bouverie reveals how Ukraine’s battle against Putin mirrors Finland’s 1940 battle against Stalin. And there are lessons for the West in all of this …

Portrait of a Fraudster

Joseph Bullmore on the trial of the Madoff of the contemporary-art world, Inigo Philbrick …

Marked Man

Jim Kelly speaks with Bill Browder on how to defeat Putin, who stole $200 million from the author—and still wants him dead …

Real-Estate Porn

From London, Flora Gill explains why proper Brits are secretly fascinated with Selling Sunset, the tacky reality-TV show that stars the gaudiest McMansions in L.A. …

The Bridgerton Effect

Rachel Johnson discovers just what one can learn in the new college classes that promise to take students inside the U.K.’s great country houses …

More Than Meets The Eye

Linda Wells catches up with Wende Zomnir, the multi-millionaire founder of Urban Decay and Zelig of cosmetics, who is back with a new line …

Answers? She’s Got ‘Em

Sienna Miller delivers on 56 of life’s most pressing questions, including the count she should be marrying …

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The View from Here The parallels between Stalin’s “Winter War” on Finland and Putin’s current attack on Ukraine are striking—with one crucial difference

By Tim Bouverie
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The Criminal Element

Sex, Drugs, and Anish Kapoor Why did Inigo Philbrick orchestrate an $86 million Ponzi scheme? Well, it depends which day of the week you ask him …

By Joseph Bullmore
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
Small Talk

Pass the Word Netflix lowers the boom on oversharing

By John Ficarra
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Eat POPL Burger Copenhagen is full of restaurants and bakeries started by chefs trained at Noma—the city’s three-Michelin-starred restaurant… Russian opposition leader and activist Alexei Navalny (L) and his wife Yulia Navalnaya (C) are seen on a monitor screen during an offsite court session in the penal colony N2 (IK-2) in Pokrov, Vladimir region, Russia, 15 February 2022. At an offsite court hearing in the penal colony N2 (IK-2), the Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow is conducting a trial of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been imprisoned here for almost a year. An opposition blogger is being tried on charges of contempt of court and fraud. The founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, was poisoned in the summer of 2020 and taken to Berlin for treatment, from where he flew to Moscow in January 2021. Immediately upon his return to Russia, he was detained and arrested, the court replaced his suspended sentence with a real one in the Yves Rocher case. Since March 2021, he has been in a colony in the city of Pokrov, Vladimir Region, he has been registered as prone to extremism.The offsite court session og a new criminal case against Alexei Navalny, Pokrov, Russian Federation - 1 Watch Navalny When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, he made enemies of that entire country—and much of the world—but the Russian president has… Shop Three Lives & Company The bookstore Three Lives & Company is resilient. Opened in 1978 on the corner of West 10th and Waverly, the West Village… Stay Riggs Washington DC I’m aware that Washington, D.C., is hardly a savvy traveler’s idea of a good time. It’s a government town swarming with sightseeing school groups… Cleanse Knockout Beauty The rumors about Ludmila Daletskaya are true. She is, in fact, one of the most skilled facialists around—and the best one this tired and world-weary… Shop The Heirloom Project It’s been a decade since the reimagined Islamic-art wing opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. To commemorate the occasion… Eat POPL Burger Copenhagen is full of restaurants and bakeries started by chefs trained at Noma—the city’s three-Michelin-starred restaurant… Russian opposition leader and activist Alexei Navalny (L) and his wife Yulia Navalnaya (C) are seen on a monitor screen during an offsite court session in the penal colony N2 (IK-2) in Pokrov, Vladimir region, Russia, 15 February 2022. At an offsite court hearing in the penal colony N2 (IK-2), the Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow is conducting a trial of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been imprisoned here for almost a year. An opposition blogger is being tried on charges of contempt of court and fraud. The founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, was poisoned in the summer of 2020 and taken to Berlin for treatment, from where he flew to Moscow in January 2021. Immediately upon his return to Russia, he was detained and arrested, the court replaced his suspended sentence with a real one in the Yves Rocher case. Since March 2021, he has been in a colony in the city of Pokrov, Vladimir Region, he has been registered as prone to extremism.The offsite court session og a new criminal case against Alexei Navalny, Pokrov, Russian Federation - 1 Watch Navalny When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, he made enemies of that entire country—and much of the world—but the Russian president has… Shop Three Lives & Company The bookstore Three Lives & Company is resilient. Opened in 1978 on the corner of West 10th and Waverly, the West Village… Stay Riggs Washington DC I’m aware that Washington, D.C., is hardly a savvy traveler’s idea of a good time. It’s a government town swarming with sightseeing school groups… Cleanse Knockout Beauty The rumors about Ludmila Daletskaya are true. She is, in fact, one of the most skilled facialists around—and the best one this tired and world-weary… Shop The Heirloom Project It’s been a decade since the reimagined Islamic-art wing opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. To commemorate the occasion…
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Guest Edit

My Favorite Things As the founder of creative agency Laird+Partners, Trey Laird has formulated global campaigns for the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, Diane von Furstenberg, and Tommy Hilfiger. Herewith, Laird shares the items he has his eye on

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Air Mail Diary

Is Meghan Markle Obsessed with an Archetype? And other strange news about these curious days …

By George Kalogerakis
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Small Talk
Highlight

The Tenor from Wakanda Curtis Bannister crosses the line from opera to action movies

By Matthew Gurewitsch
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Beauty and Wellness

Eye of the Beholder Urban Decay founder Wende Zomnir was the beauty industry’s original renegade. But what’s really shocking is her new range, which captures the low-maintenance look of Southern California. Our intrepid columnist follows the sunshine

By Linda Wells
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Boca Raton

Back it up: scenic backdrops from Hollywood hits such as North by Northwest steal the spotlight at the Boca Raton Museum of Art …

Paris

Square one: Shirley Jaffe’s pivot from Abstract Expressionism to geometric designs unfolds at the Centre Pompidou …

Copenhagen

Abstract ideas: the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art hosts a career-spanning exhibition of Sonia Delaunay’s post-Cubism paintings …

Los Angeles

Portrait mode: 15 photos by filmmaker Gus Van Sant go on display at the Little House …

Online

Playing for laughs: the Salzburg Festival’s staging of Richard Wagner’s marathon comedy, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, streams on Carnegie Hall+ …

Small Talk
Television

Love in the Time of Colanders On air for 11 seasons, Frasier made David Hyde Pierce a household name, and now he’s back on TV as chef Julia Child’s adoring husband

By Catherine Shoard
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Letter from London

Master’s of the House Studying the grandest estates in England used to be an extra-curricular activity. Now, at some universities, it’s the main event

By Rachel Johnson
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Listen

What Is Princess Di’s Brother Talking About? It’s the Bridgerton effect. Everyone wants to cash in on the U.K.’s great estates

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Small Talk
Television

In the U.K., L.A. Sells Why do Brits love Selling Sunset, the tacky reality-TV show set in L.A.’s most ostentatious neighborhoods?

By Flora Gill
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Open Book

Piatti for Children The Swiss designer Celestino Piatti’s children’s books are combined into a single volume for the first time

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In Celestino Piatti’s Barbara and the Dormouse, mice play in the moonlight, somersaulting and sampling fruit.
A fox tries to outsmart a bird in The Golden Apple.
In The Little Crayfish, one small crustacean teaches a powerful lesson on self-love.
An owl peers at the golden apple in the eponymous story.
Piatti’s drawings of a bird-fish-leopard and other curious creatures.
A dormouse rushes to fill its belly in time for the long winter slumber in Barbara and the Dormouse.
The golden apple is no match for a little squirrel.
“This night the Christ Child has been born,” an angel declares in Holy Night.
The first winds of autumn, in Barbara and the Dormouse.
In The Little Crayfish, the eagle owl reminds others not to simply follow the pack.
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Books
Nancy Schoenberger On

Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century

by Stephen Galloway
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Richard Zoglin On

In on the Joke: The Original Queens of Stand-Up Comedy

by Shawn Levy
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Eight Questions

Putin’s Enemy No. 1 Eight questions with Bill Browder, whose new book, Freezing Order, offers a captivating follow-up to his 2015 nonfiction Russia thriller, Red Notice

By Jim Kelly
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Small Talk
“I don’t need another pillow. Thank you, though.”
“I don’t need another pillow. Thank you, though.”
View With a Room

Better Living Through Holiday At Yeotown in Madeira, a wellness retreat that caters to angsty over-achievers

By Catherine Fairweather
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The Perfect Ending

Sienna Miller

The star of the new Netflix drama Anatomy of a Scandal answers 56 of life’s most pressing questions
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Duncan Hannah’s Sketchbook
Shepherd Market, a tiny self-enclosed village in London’s swanky Mayfair, reminds me of early Hitchcock films. The area was once known for its disproportionately large population of sex workers. If a card above a buzzer said, “Madame Chloe, French Lessons, 2nd floor,” it probably didn’t have anything to do with foreign languages.
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