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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

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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”

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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

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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?

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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

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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 …

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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

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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

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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

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

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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?

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

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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

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Small Talk
“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

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Book Review

The Enchanters

by James Ellroy
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Murder, They Wrote

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Small Talk
“That! That’s why I don’t like alfresco dining!”

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

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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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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

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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

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

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Issue No. 216
September 2, 2023
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Issue No. 216
September 2, 2023

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