Hot Water

From Nantucket, Clara Molot reports on the climate activists who gate-crashed a fundraiser for Massachusetts governor Maura Healey and were physically threatened by the liberal donors in attendance …

Singing the Blue

From Virginia, Diana B. Henriques says that liberal critics of Oliver Anthony’s MAGA-beloved hit country song, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” have got it all wrong …

Desperately Seeking Sinatra

From New York, New Journalism legend Gay Talese recalls going deep into Frank Sinatra’s shady inner circle, in part two of our exclusive excerpt from his new memoir …

Skid Row

From Pebble Beach, Mark Healy uncovers the incredible lengths to which gearheads will go for a limited-edition Bentley, Ferrari, or Bugatti, when having the money simply isn’t enough …

Gilded Rage

From high school, Sanibel Chai pulls back the curtain on the exclusive world of college-admissions consultants, who help Gen Z’s 1 percent contrive stories of trauma and suffering for their all-important application essays …

Top of the Pops

Marking the centenary of Roy Lichtenstein’s birth, multi-hyphenate Steve Martin recalls visiting the Pop-art master’s Greenwich Village studio …

Inspector Gadget

From the Air Mail test lab, our tech-and-gear columnist, Jonathan Margolis, tries out an uncannily intimate, utterly soundproof videoconferencing booth …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Breaking up with a Russian oligarch is hard to do … Michael Jordan’s right-hand man … Manhattan real estate—a money-launderer’s dream … a dispatch from the Telluride Film Festival … J. R. R. Tolkien’s life of academic penury … James Ellroy takes on Marilyn Monroe … seawater pools are surging back … And vote now in our Attention-Whore Index Poll!

Issue No. 216

The View from Here The right immediately embraced Oliver Anthony’s country ballad “Rich Men North of Richmond.” The left wholeheartedly rejected it. Both sides missed the point

By Diana B. Henriques

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Assignment: Sinatra
Part II While he waits for an opening into the singer’s inner circle, Gay Talese acquaints himself with “the unhappy ones”

By Gay Talese

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Advised to Death Despite their being set up with every advantage, a prep-school consultant’s privileged Gen Z clients are completely disillusioned with the college-admissions process

By Sanibel Chai

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“Sorry” Seems to Be the Hardest Word Can someone please inform Luis Rubiales that nothing is more attractive than a man admitting he’s wrong?

By Caitlin Moran

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Classics Major

This September, channel your inner academic with an Ivy League–inspired shopping list—for the study, wardrobe, and even tailgate—which will serve you well long after the semester’s over

Shop

Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images (Bergman)

My Favorite Things The multi-disciplinary artist Ronan Mckenzie reveals the quietly elegant and enduring essentials—from cutlery to daybeds and duvet covers—that fill her London home

By Ronan McKenzie

Shop

Photo: Serena Brown (Mckenzie)

A Workspace Odyssey The videoconferencing booth that will transport you to another dimension! An app to help you remain calm! Bring movie night on vacation! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

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Naughty on Nantucket Screaming, intimidation, and an expired sheriff’s badge—things heated up quickly when a climate-activist youth group crashed a cocktail party for Massachusetts governor Maura Healey

By Clara Molot

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHOP CHOPPISH SHOP

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The Attention-Whore Index Is Donald Trump set to dominate the spotlight once again? Or can some other narcissistic peacock tear your attention away from him? You decide!

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Pop Goes the Lichtenstein The actor, writer, musician, director, and comedian (running out of space!) Steve Martin remembers his friend Roy Lichtenstein, the Pop-art master whose centenary is being honored with an exhibition curated by Irving Blum

By Steve Martin

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What Money Can’t Buy If you want an extremely limited-edition Bentley or Ferrari or Lamborghini, simply having the money isn’t enough. You’ve got to give a whole lot more

By Mark Healy

Read On

Bid Robert Kime When Robert Kime died, in 2022, London’s design world was forever changed. A masterful collector and decorator, Kime had an aesthetic…

Burn L’Antidote According to David Sedaris, there are really only two acceptable types of candles: Diptyque and Trudon. But has he been to Provence lately?…

Shop The Go-To There are few things quite as frustrating as spending hours trying to find the perfect gift for the friend who has everything, only to settle…

Scroll Callsheet Where have I seen that person before? We’ve all been there—watching a show and knowing we recognize an actor but being unable to remember…

Dine Stir Crazy “New, good restaurants in L.A. are few and far between,” the Los Feliz-based jewelry designer Sophie Buhai told me on a recent summer evening…

Read The Dawn of a Mindful Universe India was in the news this summer for two reasons: a lunar landing and record-breaking heat waves…

Bid Robert Kime When Robert Kime died, in 2022, London’s design world was forever changed. A masterful collector and decorator, Kime had an aesthetic…

Burn L’Antidote According to David Sedaris, there are really only two acceptable types of candles: Diptyque and Trudon. But has he been to Provence lately?…

Shop The Go-To There are few things quite as frustrating as spending hours trying to find the perfect gift for the friend who has everything, only to settle…

Scroll Callsheet Where have I seen that person before? We’ve all been there—watching a show and knowing we recognize an actor but being unable to remember…

Dine Stir Crazy “New, good restaurants in L.A. are few and far between,” the Los Feliz-based jewelry designer Sophie Buhai told me on a recent summer evening…

Read The Dawn of a Mindful Universe India was in the news this summer for two reasons: a lunar landing and record-breaking heat waves…

The Oligarch’s Revenge When things went wrong between Alexandra Tolstoy, an English socialite, and Sergei Pugachev, Putin’s banker, guess who suffered?

By Joseph Bullmore

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Tax Shelters in the Sky For years, luxury Manhattan high-rises have been used to launder dirty foreign money. But with a new rule designed to curb the practice just weeks away, will oligarchs and dictators have to start looking elsewhere?

By Jennifer Gould

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Ticket to Telluride America’s most highbrow—and low-key—film festival turns 50

By Pico Iyer

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The Enforcer and the Maestro In an excerpt from his new book, Rich Cohen reveals the closer-than-blood relationship forged between Michael Jordan and Charles Oakley

By Rich Cohen

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“It started with cutting letters out of magazines for ransom notes; now he’s really into scrapbooking.”

The Value of Tolkien Having spent the majority of his life as a struggling academic, J. R. R. Tolkien, who died 50 years ago, would never have dreamed of the influence of The Lord of the Rings

By Nick Groom

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Malcolm Mackay On

The Oligarch, a Broken Heart, and a London Bank Scandal On this week’s podcast, Joseph Bullmore takes us inside his report on Putin’s banker and a London socialite

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Jean-Pierre Villafañe The Puerto Rican artist’s bacchanalian paintings of New Yorkers go on view at the Armory Show

By Carolina de Armas

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“A World in Convulsion”

Chaïm Soutine moved paint with such unbridled energy that the art critic John Russell called his canvases “a world in convulsion.” The seeming abandon with which he used his loaded brush will be plain to see in a long-overdue retrospective exhibition, “Chaïm Soutine. Against the Current,” opening today at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, in Düsseldorf. The show then moves to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, in Denmark, and later to the Kunstmuseum Bern, in Switzerland. READ ON

A new exhibition of Chaïm Soutine’s work brings together more than 60 paintings, including Still Life with Pheasant, 1919.

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Discover

A Bigger Splash A new coffee-table book explores the design and history of the world’s most stunning seawater pools, ranging across South Africa, Australia, and Scotland

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Curl Curl Rock Pool, in New South Wales, Australia.

*Top,* the Piscinas Naturais do Porto Moniz, in Madeira, Portugal; *above,* the Newcastle Ocean Baths, in England.

*Top,* the Lewinnick Cove Sea Pool, in Cornwall, England; *above,* the Piscine d’Eau de Mer de Saint-Quay-Portrieux, in Brittany, France.

*Top,* the Carpa Olivera saltwater swimming pool, in Mazatlán, Mexico; *above,* the Trinkie seawater pool, in Wick, Scotland.

*Top,* the Tunnels Beach tidal pools, in Ilfracombe, England; *above,* the Chapel Rock swimming pool, in Perranporth, Cornwall.

Estates of Confusion A new book celebrates the madcap magic of artist Hunt Slonem’s homes

By Steve Garbarino

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Talking Turkey The new Peninsula Istanbul hotel is among the most exciting openings in Europe this year—but not because of the guest rooms

By Alexander Lobrano

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“Thanks for substituting. I left you some private notes in cursive.”

Clare Vivier

The designer for Clare V. answers 69 of life’s most pressing questions

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The View from Here The right immediately embraced Oliver Anthony’s country ballad “Rich Men North of Richmond.” The left wholeheartedly rejected it. Both sides missed the point

Assignment: SinatraPart II While he waits for an opening into the singer’s inner circle, Gay Talese acquaints himself with “the unhappy ones”

Advised to Death Despite their being set up with every advantage, a prep-school consultant’s privileged Gen Z clients are completely disillusioned with the college-admissions process

“Sorry” Seems to Be the Hardest Word Can someone please inform Luis Rubiales that nothing is more attractive than a man admitting he’s wrong?

This September, channel your inner academic with an Ivy League–inspired shopping list—for the study, wardrobe, and even tailgate—which will serve you well long after the semester’s over

My Favorite Things The multi-disciplinary artist Ronan Mckenzie reveals the quietly elegant and enduring essentials—from cutlery to daybeds and duvet covers—that fill her London home

A Workspace Odyssey The videoconferencing booth that will transport you to another dimension! An app to help you remain calm! Bring movie night on vacation! And more …

Naughty on Nantucket Screaming, intimidation, and an expired sheriff’s badge—things heated up quickly when a climate-activist youth group crashed a cocktail party for Massachusetts governor Maura Healey

The Attention-Whore Index Is Donald Trump set to dominate the spotlight once again? Or can some other narcissistic peacock tear your attention away from him? You decide!

Pop Goes the Lichtenstein The actor, writer, musician, director, and comedian (running out of space!) Steve Martin remembers his friend Roy Lichtenstein, the Pop-art master whose centenary is being honored with an exhibition curated by Irving Blum

What Money Can’t Buy If you want an extremely limited-edition Bentley or Ferrari or Lamborghini, simply having the money isn’t enough. You’ve got to give a whole lot more

The Oligarch’s Revenge When things went wrong between Alexandra Tolstoy, an English socialite, and Sergei Pugachev, Putin’s banker, guess who suffered?

Tax Shelters in the Sky For years, luxury Manhattan high-rises have been used to launder dirty foreign money. But with a new rule designed to curb the practice just weeks away, will oligarchs and dictators have to start looking elsewhere?

Ticket to Telluride America’s most highbrow—and low-key—film festival turns 50

The Enforcer and the Maestro In an excerpt from his new book, Rich Cohen reveals the closer-than-blood relationship forged between Michael Jordan and Charles Oakley

The Value of Tolkien Having spent the majority of his life as a struggling academic, J. R. R. Tolkien, who died 50 years ago, would never have dreamed of the influence of The Lord of the Rings

The Oligarch, a Broken Heart, and a London Bank Scandal On this week’s podcast, Joseph Bullmore takes us inside his report on Putin’s banker and a London socialite

Jean-Pierre Villafañe The Puerto Rican artist’s bacchanalian paintings of New Yorkers go on view at the Armory Show

A Bigger Splash A new coffee-table book explores the design and history of the world’s most stunning seawater pools, ranging across South Africa, Australia, and Scotland

Estates of Confusion A new book celebrates the madcap magic of artist Hunt Slonem’s homes

Talking Turkey The new Peninsula Istanbul hotel is among the most exciting openings in Europe this year—but not because of the guest rooms

The designer for Clare V. answers 69 of life’s most pressing questions

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OUR CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AND CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER ARE

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In Memoriam

Assignment: Sinatra
Part II While he waits for an opening into the singer’s inner circle, Gay Talese acquaints himself with “the unhappy ones”