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MILLION-DOLLAR-SHOE MYSTERY

Mark Seal hits the yellow brick road in search of Judy Garland’s missing Wizard of Oz slippers, whose theft uncovered a cast of memorable characters—and a years-long F.B.I. investigation …

BRAVE NEW WORLD

A quarter-century ago, protests against the World Trade Organization saw more than 40,000 progressives fight globalization. How did their cause become a defining rallying cry of Trumpism?

CLOSET DIARIES

When Lili Anolik set out to write a book about Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, she didn’t expect to discover new clues about John Gregory Dunne’s rumored homosexuality. Anolik reveals all in an exclusive excerpt …

FILTHY RICH

After 13 women came forward to accuse Canadian billionaire Frank Stronach of sexual assault, one of his alleged victims shares her story …

TOGA TO MAGA

At Ivy League colleges, long-dormant Republican clubs are back with a vengeance—and bringing the likes of Vivek Ramaswamy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to their campuses …

BLOOD MONEY

Spines! Skulls! Freshly dug-up bones! Despite legislation that attempts to prohibit it, the human-remains trade is booming on Facebook, Instagram, and eBay …

CONTRA CONTRACEPTIVE

Flora Gill reports on the latest terrifying TikTok trend, uniting the left and right: being anti-birth-control pill …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

The Parisian bar that predicts U.S. elections better than most anyone else … the Spanish scandal that keeps on giving … Jilly Cooper’s Rivals TV adaptation is a salacious romp … Billie Eilish’s other half—her brother, Finneas—reveals his least favorite things … Who was this week’s biggest Attention Whore?

But First …
Issue No. 276

The View from Here In 1999, fighting globalization was a cause of true-blue lefties. Twenty-five short years later, it’s become a rallying cry for the red-hatted right

By Michael Moynihan
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
Hollywood Whodunit

Follow the Ruby Red Slippers! The crazy tale of a career criminal’s theft of the shoes worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz—and the madcap, decades-long fight to get them back

By Mark Seal
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Anatomy of a Scandal

The Billionaire Predator Frank Stronach, a 92-year-old Canadian auto-parts tycoon, has been accused of multiple sexual assaults dating back nearly 50 years. One of his alleged victims shares her story

By Jane Boon
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Air Supply

Witch, Please

Haunted by high Halloween expectations? Come under the spell of AIR SUPPLY’s guide to easy Halloween style
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Guest Edit

Sarah Solis’s Favorite Things The L.A.-based interior designer recently launched Galerie Solis, a collection of original furniture and textiles as well as antiques and accessories. Her style dispatch includes Il Buco Vita candleholders, Bellocq No. 55 mint tea, and more

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A Very Spanish Scandal

To Blackmail a King The former mistress of Spain’s exiled monarch, Juan Carlos, forced her 13-year-old son to photograph and video her royal romps in order to extort millions of dollars in hush money from the Spanish state

By James Badcock
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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Small Talk
L.A. Confidential

True Confessions? Did Joan Didion’s husband have the hots for Eve Babitz—or was he moving in another direction?

By Lili Anolik
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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Marjorie Taylor Greene sells conspiracies, Elon Musk buys votes, and Donald Trump slings fries (and lies)

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Landing Gear

Voices from the Past A recording device that will fill in the gaps in your memory! Google’s A.I. summary tool is unlike anything you’ve ever seen! The charging station that will change your life! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis
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Where G.O.P. Meets G.P.A.

The Vocal Minority What’s behind the growing popularity of Ivy League student Republican clubs?

By M. J. Koch
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHOP CHOPPISH SHOP
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Modern Times

Jagged Little Pill How the birth-control pill went from women’s-lib sensation to TikTok albatross, drawing backlash from young people on both the left and right

By Flora Gill
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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Television

Boffing for Britain The new, high-camp TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals sticks two fingers up at today’s sexless puritanism

By Camilla Long
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The Body Shop

An Eye for an Eye The grisly sale of human remains has exploded in popularity on social media. But who is buying? Who is selling? And where do the body parts come from?

By Elizabeth McCafferty
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Politics on the Rocks

Voting with Your Gut The straw vote at Harry’s Bar, in Paris, has predicted the results of the American presidential election as accurately—if more drunkenly—than many more scientific polls

By John von Sothen
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After Hours

A Night Celebrating Lili Anolik Sofia Coppola, Justin Theroux, Megyn Kelly, and others gathered at the Waverly Inn on Tuesday night to toast Anolik’s new book, Didion and Babitz

By Jack Sullivan
Photographs by Daniel Paik
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Top, Lili Anolik and Sofia Coppola; above, Anolik’s new book, Didion and Babitz.
Top, Graydon Carter and Lili Anolik; above, Megyn Kelly and Robert Anolik.
Top, Joy Behar; above, Jeffrey Patrick O’Brecht and Isaac Boots.
Top, Molly Ringwald; above, Sheldon Chang, Caroline Calloway, Mitchell Jackson, Emily Arthur, and James Sanders.
Top, Robert Anolik, George Hahn, and Justin Theroux; above, Olivia Palermo.
Top, Caroline Calloway and Emily Arthur; above, Alexi Wasser and friend.
Top, Nicole Jon Sievers and Josh Klinghoffer; above, Anna Sui.
Top, Stephanie Ruhle and Sandi Mendelson; above, Karah Preiss.
Top, Emma Cline; above, Katherine Monaghan, Brock Colyar, and Carl Swanson.
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Listen

Inside the Secret Life of Joan Didion On this week’s podcast, Lili Anolik reveals what she learned about the revered writer and her private life

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Elements of Style

It’s a Blue-Jean World, Baby Whether you like boot-cut or boyfriend, low-waist or high, dark-wash or bleached, denim jeans have conquered the world

By Laura Craik
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Highlight
Sophie Calle presents “relatable experiences of hope, disappointment, shame, love, and loss,” according to the curator Henriette Huldisch.

Sophie Calle’s Lessons in Provocation

Sophie Calle is a photographer, writer, filmmaker, exhibitionist, detective, and spy. Given her ambiguous relationship with privacy law, she’s also been called a thief and a stalker. Unfettered by public opinion and legal claims, Calle, Paris-born and now 70, insists that she’s just an artist. Opening today at the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, “Sophie Calle: Overshare” is the first Stateside survey of her provocative, genre-defying work. READ ON

Film

From Russia with Lust Sean Baker’s latest film, Anora, was a hit at Cannes and is now drawing Oscar buzz. How did he make sex work so respectable?

By Ryan Gilbey
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Tim Burton’s Sketchbook
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Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs.
Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs.
Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs.
Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs.
Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs.
Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs.
Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs.
Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs.
Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs.
Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs.
Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs.
Small Talk
“Thanks for dropping by, but next time you can just text.”
“Thanks for dropping by, but next time you can just text.”
Just Kids

Can’t Read, Won’t Read Have children fallen out of love with books? And, if so, does it matter?

By Caitlin Moran
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Highlight
The Mad Hatter.

Hats Off

On the eve of the opening of his retrospective, “Stephen Jones, Chapeaux d’Artiste,” at the Palais Galliera, in Paris’s Eighth Arrondissement, the famed British milliner is fitting a lacquered straw boater on the head of a friend. Because this natty number is by Jones, it bears only a passing resemblance to traditional headgear of its genre. Its scale is reduced, its color is oxblood, and its low crown looks like a lambchop, finished with a frill. READ ON

Books
Caroline Alexander On

Explorers: A New History

by Matthew Lockwood
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David Yaffe On

A Few Words in Defense of Our Country:
The Biography of Randy Newman

by Robert Hilburn
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Open Book

Architecture’s Philosopher A new coffee-table book celebrates the life and career of I. M. Pei, the modernist visionary behind Paris’s Louvre Pyramid and Hong Kong’s Bank of China Tower

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I. M. Pei’s Luce Memorial Chapel, in Taichung City, Taiwan, completed in 1963.
Top, the garden plaza of the Bank of China Tower, in Hong Kong, 1989; above, a courtyard in the Four Seasons Hotel in New York, 1993.
From the first-floor terrace of the Denon Wing, at the Louvre, in Paris: the Pyramid, 1989.
The suspension bridge leading to the Miho Museum, in Koka, Japan, 1997.
Top, the underground café in the National Gallery of Art’s East Building, in Washington, D.C., 1978; above, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, 2008.
The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.
An aerial view of the Bank of China Tower.
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Small Talk
“You don’t know what it’s like in the private sector.”
“You don’t know what it’s like in the private sector.”
Close-up

Yasmine and Julie Audi The Lebanese sister duo behind Milan’s ultra-popular Oslo—Made in Heaven dessert shop is creating museum-worthy confections

By Elena Clavarino
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THE IMPERFECT ENDING

Finneas

The 10-time Grammy winner and music producer to his little sister, Billie Eilish, shares his least favorite things
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Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook
Neighborhood watch: it’s fall-cleanup time.
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