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Issue No. 193

The View from Here Putin’s work-around for sanctions

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Boris on Trial The former British prime minister is desperately trying to convince his fellow M.P.’s he didn’t lie to them. How will the master of mendacity wriggle out of this one?

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Rudy Then and Rudy Now Rudy Giuliani’s fall from respected New York mayor to Trump consigliere is well documented. But the cracks in his moral makeup were there from the outset

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With All Due Respect … Unfortunately, yes, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have forgotten their manners

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My Favorite Things The James Beard–nominated chef behind New York’s King, Jupiter, and Stissing House reveals the items she turns to while cooking—and more of her daily necessities

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The Attention-Whore Index A bankrupt Swiss bank? A perp-walking ex-president? Sometimes the world seems topsy-turvy, but, thankfully, the royals are bickering as usual. Vote now on this week’s biggest attention suck! Plus: global news you might have missed

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Small Talk
“Sorry about all the talk of annihilation—that was just Keith getting carried away.”

Blow Them to Pieces The Leica of leaf removal! An operating-system update that will help you save face! A dongle that will up your headphone game! And more …

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It’s RH’s World Restoration Hardware, the high-end housewares company that recently rebranded as RH, is on a mission to colonize luxury cities. In Aspen, residents are drawing the line

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Small Talk
“And don’t you dare say you know how I feel.”

Anna Wintour The Vogue editor isn’t typically a lady who lunches. But on this week’s Table for Two, she makes an exception for host Bruce Bozzi

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Solid Sender A new immersive production of Guys and Dolls in London is an all-around delight

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Karina Longworth Is Bringing Back the 90s The podcast host discusses her career, her marriage, and the new season of You Must Remember This, which will focus on Showgirls, Basic Instinct, Eyes Wide Shut, and other 1990s erotic film classics

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Law and Disorder As the International Criminal Court charges Vladimir Putin for war crimes, will justice finally be served?

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Can a 71-year-old American Musical Revive London? On this week’s podcast, John Lahr tells us how—and why—Londoners have gone mad for Guys and Dolls

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The Little Paper That Knew A tiny local newspaper on Long Island’s North Shore was the first to warn us about George Santos. He still can’t forgive them for it

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The Hits Keep Coming After the success of Unorthodox, its co-creator Anna Winger returns to Netflix with Transatlantic, a black comedy about World War II–era refugees

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Read The Strangers’ House In prose almost as lyrical as the works he examines, Alexander Poots’s authorial debut excavates both the notable and the neglected… Dine Roscioli Salumeria con Cucina From the outside, Roscioli Salumeria con Cucina looks like a bar. Or is it a deli selling cheese and cured meats… Watch Shalom Italia This year marks eight decades since the Italian-Jewish Anati brothers—Emmanuel, Reuven (nicknamed “Bubi”), and Andrea—managed to evade… Stay Brown’s Hotel In 1932, King George II of Greece, exiled and stripped of his titles, moved into a suite at Brown’s Hotel, in Mayfair, London. His rooms, which… Speak Hello French We discovered Cécilia Jourdan through her charming Instagram account, @hellofrenchnyc, which is full of instructional videos… Listen Higher Animals New Yorker columnist Michael Specter has spent much of the last three years thinking and writing about vaccines, infectious diseases… Read The Strangers’ House In prose almost as lyrical as the works he examines, Alexander Poots’s authorial debut excavates both the notable and the neglected… Dine Roscioli Salumeria con Cucina From the outside, Roscioli Salumeria con Cucina looks like a bar. Or is it a deli selling cheese and cured meats… Watch Shalom Italia This year marks eight decades since the Italian-Jewish Anati brothers—Emmanuel, Reuven (nicknamed “Bubi”), and Andrea—managed to evade… Stay Brown’s Hotel In 1932, King George II of Greece, exiled and stripped of his titles, moved into a suite at Brown’s Hotel, in Mayfair, London. His rooms, which… Speak Hello French We discovered Cécilia Jourdan through her charming Instagram account, @hellofrenchnyc, which is full of instructional videos… Listen Higher Animals New Yorker columnist Michael Specter has spent much of the last three years thinking and writing about vaccines, infectious diseases…

Luck, Be This Lady Carole Bamford has turned Daylesford into not only a posh grocery store but a signifier for a certain way of life

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Fine-Tuning In an interview, the pianist Víkingur Ólafsson discusses his affinity for Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto, which he’s playing around Europe

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Catherine Lacey The author discusses her latest novel, a fictionalized biography of a “Frankenstein’s monster of 20 artists and 20 writers” whom she admires, from Kathy Acker to Susan Sontag

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Small Talk

From The Glass Castle to Prohibition Jeannette Walls looks back at her tumultuous upbringing and her days as a gossip columnist in New York, and discusses her latest book, a novel set in the 1920s

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Book Reviews

Elizabeth & Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage, and Monarchy

by Tessa Dunlop
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The Prophet Motive

by Stephan Talty and Kevin Cook
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Small Talk
“So, I’d love for us to think of this as less of a trial and more of a curated trial experience.”
Open Book

An Amusement Park of Dreams The first-ever art amusement park—launched in 1987 in Hamburg, and featuring art by everyone from Basquiat to Baselitz to Lichtenstein—has since been all but forgotten. Ahead of Luna Luna’s reopening, next year, a new book surveys this feat of the imagination


Alison Roman The writer, chef, and cookbook author reveals her travel routine

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Issue No. 193
March 25, 2023
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Issue No. 193
March 25, 2023

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