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HOT OUT OF THE OVEN

Every Brit has an opinion on Gail’s, London’s hottest—and most controversial—bakery chain. Bridget Arsenault goes straight to the notoriously reserved source: Gail, of Gail’s …

DÉJÀ BOO-HOO

Cancel The Apprentice! Tie his shoelaces together! In light of a second Trump presidency, we can only fantasize about what a time machine could’ve done to prevent it …

HOLDING COURT

Marcia Clark—the lead prosecutor in the O. J. Simpson case—revisits the infamous 1955 Barbara Graham murder trial and the errors that plagued it …

CLOSING THE TAB

Since opening up shop 20 years ago, En Japanese Brasserie has become a New York mainstay—and host to everyone from musicians to restaurateurs. Now it’s suddenly shuttering its doors …

FACING THE MUSIC

Maria Callas overcame poverty and abuse on her way to opera superstardom. In Maria, it’s up to Angelina Jolie to bring a human touch to a complex story …

TURNING THE PAGE

From Porterhouse Blue and Lucky Jim to The History Man, college was once ideal fodder for comic send-ups. But today’s campus might just be too silly for satire …

GIANT SHOES TO FILL

When Edna Ferber’s great-niece set out to write a book about the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, even she was surprised by what lay beneath Ferber’s author persona …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Seeped in cinematic history, Louis Malle’s family home is up for rental … remembering cabaret legend Bobby Short … meet New York’s tailor to the stars … how Keinemusik catalyzed a house-music cult … Orhan Pamuk makes his artistic debut … Cast your vote in this week’s Attention-Whore Index Poll!

But First …
Issue No. 281

The View from Here Would a time machine have helped thwart Trump’s re-election?

By Teddy Wayne
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
Breaking Bread

You’ve Got Gail The elusive founder of Gail’s dishes on everything from the controversy surrounding the quintessential London bakery to laying the blueprint for Ottolenghi’s food empire

By Bridget Arsenault
Photographs by Guillaume Bonn
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Air Supply

English Yuletide

Good tidings, dear reader. AIR SUPPLY’s guide to a very English holiday has all the trappings of a Nancy Meyers–worthy romp in the countryside
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Photo: GAB Archive/Redferns (the Beatles)
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Guest Edit

An English-Countryside Christmas

Emily Cameron and Owen Mears, the sibling perfumers behind Ffern organic fragrances, hail from Somerset, England. Local holiday traditions include carols, cowsheds, and more
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Not Just Semantics

Why Americans Love What You Do—and Brits Hate to Hear It In the U.S., overpraising is endemic, while in the U.K., compliments are viewed as insincere

By Chiara Brown
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Listen

Lunch with Isabella Rossellini On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the Conclave actress discusses thinness and adjusting her definition of elegance as she gets older

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Swan Song

The Diva’s Tragedy Maria Callas’s life was marked by poverty, drugs, cheating billionaires, and tabloid uproar. Can Angelina Jolie, who plays the opera singer in a new biopic, find the humanity amid the chaos?

By Lyndsy Spence
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READ Laguna Vintage If you, like me, find contemporary children’s books utterly ghastly in both cover and content, then you owe it to yourself to follow… STRUT équipement De Vie The intersection of sneaker-heads and mariners will find plenty to love about Équipement De Vie, a new collection of sailing sneakers… LIGHT Flamingo Estate Winter is coming—but what if we told you that summer can be bottled up and served in an understated, elegant green… WEAR Vanessa Seward x Bonpoint The Parisian fashion designer Vanessa Seward specializes in clothes for the insouciant but… SHOOT PictureThis Gardeners, botanists, and plant lovers: pick a tree, any tree, and snap a photo of it using PictureThis—our favorite plant-encyclopedia… LOOK Sybil and David Yurman A new Phaidon book, Sybil and David Yurman: Artists and Jewelers, delves into the couple’s… READ Laguna Vintage If you, like me, find contemporary children’s books utterly ghastly in both cover and content, then you owe it to yourself to follow… STRUT équipement De Vie The intersection of sneaker-heads and mariners will find plenty to love about Équipement De Vie, a new collection of sailing sneakers… LIGHT Flamingo Estate Winter is coming—but what if we told you that summer can be bottled up and served in an understated, elegant green… WEAR Vanessa Seward x Bonpoint The Parisian fashion designer Vanessa Seward specializes in clothes for the insouciant but… SHOOT PictureThis Gardeners, botanists, and plant lovers: pick a tree, any tree, and snap a photo of it using PictureThis—our favorite plant-encyclopedia… LOOK Sybil and David Yurman A new Phaidon book, Sybil and David Yurman: Artists and Jewelers, delves into the couple’s…
The Restaurant Next Door

En Everlasting As New York says good-bye to En Japanese Brasserie, its owner looks back on 20 years spent serving—and partying late into the night with—everyone from Yoko Ono to Q-Tip, Lou Reed, and Martha Stewart

By Elena Clavarino
Photographs by Daniel Paik
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Top, Dave Chappelle, DJ Sarasa, and En Japanese Brasserie owner Reika Alexander at the restaurant’s 20th-anniversary party; above, Alexander and Chris Rock.
Top, Kira Faiman, Reika Alexander, and Martha Stewart; above, Anna Sui and Sofia Coppola.
Top, Jen Kao; above, Maye Musk.
Top, Ulla Parker and Lynn Ban; above, August Alexander.
Top, Lola Schnabel, Sapna Neravanda, Julian Schnabel, Lisa Chu, and Elaine Chappelle, above, Marina Abramović and Jeffrey Deitch.
Top, Stretch Armstrong and Mathieu Bitton; above, Mary Frey Sorrenti.
Top, Sophia Agnella Anita Stolz cutting the cake she made for the party; above, Mario Sorrenti.
Top, Chris Rock, Reika Alexander, and Dave Chappelle; above, George Inaki Root, Zac Posen, and Harrison Ball.
Top, Fulano Librizzi; above, Alexander Wang.
Top, JR; above, the author with Reika Alexander.
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Music Man

The Towering Bobby Short For 36 years there was no more quintessential New York experience than seeing Bobby Short perform at the Café Carlyle

By Scott Asen
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Books
Abhrajyoti Chakraborty On

Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009–2022

by Orhan Pamuk,
translated by Ekin Oklap
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Sarah Weinman On

Trial by Ambush: Murder, Injustice, and the Truth about the Case of Barbara Graham

by Marcia Clark
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Inside Story

Giant Girls Don’t Cry Edna Ferber’s great-niece pulls back the curtain on the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer’s personal life—and the sacrifices she made for her craft

By Julie Gilbert
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Photography

America’s Sweethearts A new coffee-table book presents a visual history of the United States from the 1940s to today, courtesy of Magnum photographers

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Marilyn Monroe, photographed by Eve Arnold in Los Angeles, 1960.
Top, a view from the Robert F. Kennedy funeral train, by Paul Fusco, 1968; above, the corner of Sepulveda and Washington Boulevards, in Los Angeles, by Dennis Stock, 1960.
Spectators at a space-age air show in Nevada, by Cornell Capa, 1959.
Top, Brooklyn on September 11, 2001, by Alex Webb; above, downtown Manhattan as seen from “lovers’ lane” in Jersey City, by Thomas Hoepker, 1983.
A storage yard for David Adickes’s presidential heads, in Houston, Texas, by Mark Power, 2018.
Top, an American soldier killed during the battle for Baghdad, by Alex Majoli, 2003; above, D-day soldiers arriving at Omaha Beach, by Robert Capa, 1944.
A strike captain during a national protest against meatpacking companies in Chicago, by Wayne Miller, 1948.
Top, protesters marching for George Floyd in Brooklyn, by Bruce Gilden, 2020; above, segregated water fountains in Wilmington, North Carolina, by Elliott Erwitt, 1950.
A voter-registration drive to help sign up Black voters, held in a former gallows near Selma, Alabama, by Bruce Davidson, 1965.
Top, a couple getting arrested for selling drugs on Hollywood Boulevard, by Jim Goldberg, 1988; above, a photograph from I Am About to Call It a Day, a book by Bieke Depoorter, 2010.
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Small Talk
Elements of Style

A Cut Above the Rest At just 32, Paolo Martorano, New York’s youngest tailor to the stars, is keeping a dying art alive—and dressing clients from Brian Cox to George Hamilton

By Nathan King
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Highlight
Left, Saint Francis of Assisi, by Francisco de Zurbarán, circa 1635–45; right, Moth, by Owen Kydd, 2015.

Monochrome Mystique

Admiring the 17th-century Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbarán, Henri Matisse commented on “the simultaneously light and pastose treatment given to the bone-white capes in which he dressed his monks.” For those unfamiliar with the term “pastose”—as I was—it derives from the Italian pastoso, meaning doughy, like pasta. Indeed, Zurbarán’s subtle matte whites and his panoply of rich blacks fortify and sustain us. In their vibrant contrasts, these two colors also evoke virtue and evil, a significance that was essential to this wonderful painter, whose canvases invoke a code of behavior in keeping with their religiosity. READ ON

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Schools of Thought

The Decline and Fall of the Campus Novel Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh, and Tom Sharpe used universities as their preferred vehicle for satire. But are modern colleges too ridiculous to parody?

By Lindsay Johns
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D.J. Chronicles

Notes from Underground Keinemusik’s catchy brand of house music has attracted everyone from bankers to groupies. But is the German D.J. trio anything more than a status symbol?

By Elena Clavarino
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Close-up

Payal Kapadia The first female Indian director to win Cannes’s Grand Prix discusses her childhood in Mumbai and her film All We Imagine as Light

By Tobias Grey
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Listen

The Highs and Heartbreaks of Living in New York City On this week’s podcast, we look at Bobby Short at 100 and the end of En Japanese Brasserie

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Small Talk
“I conjured you up a dress, shoes, a corsage, and a limo—I’m not ponying up for an after-party too.”
“I conjured you up a dress, shoes, a corsage, and a limo—I’m not ponying up for an after-party too.”
View With a Room

Home Is Where the Art Is Louis Malle’s family pile, where the director worked on many of his classic films, is now available to rent

By Ashley Baker
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The Perfect Ending

Phillipa Soo

The Grammy Award–winning Broadway actress answers 63 of life’s most pressing questions
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Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook
“And soon I’ll hear old winter’s song … when autumn leaves start to fall.”
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