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UNDER THE INFLUENCE

The largest donations to top American universities aren’t coming from billionaires trying to get their kids into college but from the tiny authoritarian regime of Qatar. And there are strings attached …

RHODES RAGE

The increasingly left-wing political orientation of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship is provoking outrage among alumni …

BLAST FROM THE PAST

John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, and Sean Connery were just a few of the Hollywood superstars who came together for the 1962 epic The Longest Day …

Mooch on the Loose

In an interview, the ever excoriating Anthony Scaramucci dishes on his former boss, and why he’s not only going to vote for Biden but would happily work for him, too …

OVEREXPOSURE

“The King of Paparazzi” Rino Barillari’s life behind the camera has brought him fame—and more than 100 hospital visits, most recently at the hands of Gérard Depardieu …

SUITE AND SOUR

Is it inflation, increased tourism, or labor shortages? Whatever the reason, prices at European hotels that once beckoned summer travelers have exploded into the five figures, and that’s before the champagne …

HIGH SOCIETY

Who says non-alcoholic drinking can’t be exciting? Linda Wells raises a toast to THC-infused beverages, a burgeoning—and effective—alternative to White Claws …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

The best vintage-book shop you’ve never heard of is hiding in Brooklyn … the make-believe D-day army that duped Hitler … rare Louis Armstrong recordings see the light of day … City on Fire’s Garth Risk Hallberg has a new novel … Cast your vote in this week’s Attention-Whore Index Poll!

But First …
Issue No. 255

The View from Here Harvard’s sanctioning of two Rhodes Scholarship recipients is only the latest in a series of controversies plaguing the prestigious academic prize

By James Kirchick
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
D-day’s 80th Anniversary

The Remains of the Day How an intrepid director and a truly star-studded cast came together to make the 1962 war epic The Longest Day, against odds that almost rivaled the real event

By Tim Bouverie
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Money Trail

When Your Teacher Is Qatar As student protesters call for their universities to divest from Israel, Qatar is spending billions to influence those same schools

By Jennifer Gould
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHOP CHOPPISH SHOP
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Air Supply

Daddy Dearest

From a new handkerchief to a modern heirloom watch, AIR SUPPLY has Father’s Day gift ideas for every paternal person in your life
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Photo: Allstar Picture Library Ltd./Alamy (Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra)
Guest Edit

Tom Chapman’s Favorite Things The co-founder of Matches Fashion has shifted his focus to luxury housewares and design with Abask. Here, he shares gifts to give and get, including a Lobmeyr crystal tumbler, a handy Carl Auböck bottle opener, and a Wooden Palate salt cellar

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The Mooch Chronicles

Bigmouth Strikes Again After surviving just 10 days as Trump’s communications director, Anthony Scaramucci is now backing Biden, co-hosting a podcast, and taking wild swings at his former boss

By Louise Callaghan
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Beauty and Wellness

Eye of the Beholder Alcohol is so last season. The most stylish drinkers are now imbibing the stronger stuff—beverages laced with THC. But can our wildly experimental beauty-and-wellness guru handle the high life?

By Linda Wells
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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Donald Trump is guilty as hell, Richard Dreyfuss loves a good yell, and you don’t want Martha-Ann Alito ringing your doorbell. Plus, the strangest news from around the world

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Candid Cameraman

The Daumier of La Dolce Vita Ava Gardner kicked him in the groin, Peter O’Toole socked him in the ear, and this month Gérard Depardieu pounded him to a pulp. But 79-year-old Rino Barillari isn’t slowing down

By Tom Kington
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Small Talk
“No threat detected. Their vast resources are spent on lasers that combat wrinkles and unwanted hair.”
“No threat detected. Their vast resources are spent on lasers that combat wrinkles and unwanted hair.”
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Lunch with Sam Taylor-Johnson On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the Fifty Shades of Grey director talks about making Paul Newman cry, the inspiration behind her new Amy Winehouse biopic, and more …

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Best
STRUT Ancient Greek Sandals x Castañer We’ve tried to resist the fisherman’s-sandal trend, but now it’s proved impossible. The culprit:… VISIT Loro Piana at La Réserve à la Plage It seems impossible to make La Réserve à la Plage—a St. Tropez beach club overlooking the turquoise Pampelonne waters… LISTEN Voices from the Frontline Some of us live more dangerously than others. On the podcast Voices from the Frontline,… CARRY Issimo x Métier For those who find themselves listening to old albums of Pino D’Angiò and Baltimora, here’s your chance to carry a small piece of… READ Burning Sky Coral reefs are bleaching, the Arctic permafrost is thawing, howler monkeys are falling dead from trees in Mexico, while oil giants… READ What This Comedian Said Will Shock You Bill Maher, comedian and host of the eponymous HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher, is out with… STRUT Ancient Greek Sandals x Castañer We’ve tried to resist the fisherman’s-sandal trend, but now it’s proved impossible. The culprit:… VISIT Loro Piana at La Réserve à la Plage It seems impossible to make La Réserve à la Plage—a St. Tropez beach club overlooking the turquoise Pampelonne waters… LISTEN Voices from the Frontline Some of us live more dangerously than others. On the podcast Voices from the Frontline,… CARRY Issimo x Métier For those who find themselves listening to old albums of Pino D’Angiò and Baltimora, here’s your chance to carry a small piece of… READ Burning Sky Coral reefs are bleaching, the Arctic permafrost is thawing, howler monkeys are falling dead from trees in Mexico, while oil giants… READ What This Comedian Said Will Shock You Bill Maher, comedian and host of the eponymous HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher, is out with…
The Shop Around the Corner

Valley of the Books Located inside a family’s Brooklyn home, High Valley Books offers the best collection of rare and vintage print media in the city

By Zach Sokol
Photographs by Nathan King
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Travel

The Sky-High Cost of Summer Travel A few years back, a room at a top-notch European hotel might have cost you $600. Multiply that by 10 and you have the eye-boggling new suite-nomics of the post-pandemic era

By Ashley Baker
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D-day’s 80th Anniversary

Hoaxing the Nazis Using fake tanks, movie-set designers, and an all-too-real General Patton, the Allies ingeniously fooled Hitler in the run-up to D-day

By Taylor Downing
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Small Talk
“With proper editing, I’ve had a good life.”
“With proper editing, I’ve had a good life.”
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Drinking the High Life On this week’s podcast, Linda Wells tells us about the new wave of THC cocktails (and how they lead to a cleaner kitchen)

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Books
Evan Thomas On

The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower

by Michel Paradis
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Helen Schulman On

The Second Coming

by Garth Risk Hallberg
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Mystery

Murder, They Wrote This month’s best mystery books, podcasts, and TV series

By Lisa Henricksson
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Photography

Man Ray’s Halo Effect A new book surveys the life and work of the prolific 20th-century artist who revolutionized photography and pioneered the Surrealist movement

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Déshabillé en Contre-Jour (Undressed with Backlight), by Man Ray, 1935.
Top, Alice Prin, known as Kiki de Montparnasse, 1925; above, Larmes (Tears), 1932.
Objet Indestructible (Indestructible Object), a 1965 work by Ray.
A sleeping woman, photographed by Ray in 1931.
A still of Man Ray from his 1926 short film, “Emak-Bakia.”
De Montparnasse in Le Violon d’Ingres (Ingres’s Violin), 1924.
Marchesa Luisa Casati in Le Portrait de Mon Âme (The Portrait of My Soul), 1922.
Photograms by Ray, circa 1921–22. He refined and personalized the technique so much that the prints were eventually called “rayographs.”
Male Torso, created in 1930 with the solarization technique.
A 1921 letter from Ray to the Romanian poet and essayist Tristan Tzara.
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All That Jazz

Satch Is Back! Five spectacular and previously unheard Louis Armstrong recordings from 1968 are finally being released by the BBC, showing him to be a great entertainer to the last

By Aneesa Ahmed
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Close-up

Lola Peploe For the actor’s directorial debut, she’s revisiting her grandmother’s legendary life and painting career

By David Stewart
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Highlight

Along Came Polly Polly Jean Harvey, the fearless singer and two-time Mercury Prize winner known as PJ Harvey, blends her recent work with 90s classics on her European summer tour

By David Yaffe
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The Hotel World

Somewhere Man Pablo Carrington operates some of the world’s best hotels according to one simple rule: whatever a multi-national brand would do, he does the opposite

By Ben Ryder Howe
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Small Talk
“I got tired of wearing a hat.”
“I got tired of wearing a hat.”
The Perfect Ending

Kit Kemp

The interior designer and creative force behind Firmdale Hotels answers 36 of life’s most pressing questions
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Stephen Kroninger’s Sketchbook
Anticipating summer on a beautiful spring day on Eighth Street in New York City.
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June 1, 2024
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