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GREY GARDENS REVISITED

Tyler Huntting Jr. was little more than a crotchety East Hampton eccentric until his death, when he was revealed to be a descendant of one of the town’s most storied families …

OUR NATIONAL NIGHTMARE

Before next week’s Democratic National Convention, Buzz Bissinger weighs in on the hellish standard Republicans set at the R.N.C., and how Kamala Harris can set herself apart …

WAR COLLEGE

As Jewish academics fled Europe during W.W. II, many found an unlikely refuge teaching at ​​Black colleges that would later count Kamala Harris and Toni Morrison as alumni …

STAFF INFECTION

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s chief of staff, who jumped ship after a mere three months, is just the latest in a long line of Sussex employees to quit abruptly because “it wasn’t the right fit” …

MORMONS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN

To celebrate missionary trips to countries such as Namibia and Panama, Latter-Day Saints of a more freewheeling variety are throwing lavish send-offs with the pomp and circumstance of gender-reveal parties …

CRUISIN’ FOR A BRUISIN’

Though divorce, conversion to Scientology, and a series of repetitive roles threatened Tom Cruise’s career, the actor’s recent Olympics stunt confirms that he is still Hollywood’s favorite action hero …

FRENCH RESISTANCE

After Françoise Sagan wrote Bonjour Tristesse, at 17 years old, the novel made her a national idol, became a classic film, and heralded an age of rebellious, malcontent youth …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

A Portuguese hotel with its own plane … New York’s last old-school restaurateur … the magazine that made Hollywood glow … Iris Apfel’s colorful love affair … remembering Kent State, 50 years on … the duality of Christopher Isherwood … how to play it cool around celebrities … Who has your vote for this week’s biggest Attention Whore?

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Issue No. 266

The View from Here America’s historically Black colleges and universities produced Kamala Harris. They also hired Jewish World War II refugees when the Ivy League wouldn’t

By David Christopher Kaufman
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
East End Agonistes

The Rake Man of Huntting Lane Who was the aggressive recluse who lived in the dilapidated mansion on one of East Hampton’s most exclusive streets?

By Carrie Monahan
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Little Britain

The Sussex Meat Grinder Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s chief of staff has bolted after just three months. He’s not alone

By Kate Mansey
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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Guest Edit

Camille Becerra’s Favorite Things The New York City–based chef’s first cookbook, Bright Cooking, is a collection of 125 intelligent, intuitive, and simple recipes based on local, organic, and sustainable cuisine. Here, Becerra shares her picks for bright living: Moromi soy sauce, Pointy Snout caviar, and B Sides jeans

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Landing Gear

An Idea with Legs Prepare for fall with an Adirondack chair that heats up! Noodle on a slew of positively medieval instruments! A Web site to help you learn the Romance languages! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis
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Small Talk
Department of Complaints

Conventional Madness Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is maddened by political conventions, sickened by the costumes, and apoplectic at the idiots on and off the stage

By Buzz Bissinger
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Latter-Day Living

The New Look of Mormons Opting for pomp over piety, wealthy Mormons in Salt Lake City are throwing lavish parties for teenagers to open their mission calls

By Samantha Leach
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Small Talk

It’s Lonely at the Top Millions of adoring fans are no substitute for a single person who really gets it. Someone like me, for example

By Simon Webster
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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Ukraine is invading, Elon Musk is glitching, and Donald Trump is blithering

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The Fall Guy

A Gold-Medal Stunt The Paris Olympics was one for the ages. Then, attention-seeking Tom Cruise jumped through the roof of the Stade de France

By Helen Rumbelow
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Small Talk
Aristophanes explains comedy.
Aristophanes explains comedy.
Rue on the Riviera

Ennui au Soleil Françoise Sagan’s debut novel, Bonjour Tristesse, caused a sensation, rocked the sleepy town of St. Tropez, and helped usher in an era of rebellious youth

By Elizabeth Winder
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Style

Muse of the World The socialite heiress and fashion designer Daphne Guinness recalls musical advice from David Bowie, being best friends with Alexander McQueen, and dating Bernard-Henri Lévy

By Vassi Chamberlain
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Books
Robin Olson On

Iris Apfel: Colorful—A Treasure Trove of Inspiration, Influences, and Ideas

by Iris Apfel
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Pico Iyer On

Christopher Isherwood Inside Out

by Katherine Bucknell
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Inside Story

The Shots Heard Around the World Fifty years after the Kent State shooting, an Ohio Army National Guardsman finally reveals why they shot at unarmed college protesters

By Brian VanDeMark
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Open Book

Stars at Work A new book celebrates the golden age of American moviemaking, as seen in the pages of Life magazine

By Sam Wasson
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Paul Newman, photographed by Mark Kauffman, 1967.
Brigitte Bardot, photographed by Ralph Crane, 1965.
Steve McQueen and his first wife, Neile Adams, photographed by John Dominis, 1963.
Mia Farrow, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1967.
Sammy Davis Jr., photographed by Gjon Mili, 1959.
Marilyn Monroe, photographed by Ed Clark, 1950.
Top, the Hollywood Palladium, photographed by Crane, 1946; above, Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti, photographed by Eisenstaedt, 1946.
Marlon Brando as Napoleon Bonaparte on the set of Désirée, photographed by Loomis Dean, 1954.
Ingrid Bergman, photographed by Gordon Parks, 1949.
Alfred Hitchcock, photographed by Philippe Halsman, 1963.
Marlene Dietrich entertaining a group of American G.I.’s, photographed by George Silk, 1945.
Melvin Van Peebles, photographed by John Shearer, 1971.
Darryl F. Zanuck, photographed by Jerry Cooke, 1944.
Small Talk
“Oh, for God’s sake, this is Paris, Texas.”
“Oh, for God’s sake, this is Paris, Texas.”
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How a Police Officer Landed an East Hampton Mansion On this week’s podcast, Carrie Monahan takes us inside her story of a recluse and the man who befriended him

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Food and Wine

The Last Front-of-House Man For five decades, Ken Aretsky has defied New York restaurant odds by making charm, simplicity, and elegance the first orders of business

By David Coggins
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Highlight

The Queen’s Next Move In Salzburg’s The Tales of Hoffmann, Kathryn Lewek shows four faces of the Eternal Feminine

By Matthew Gurewitsch
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Close-up

Anna Sawai The star of Shōgun discusses her J-pop past and hopes for the second season of Pachinko

By Zack Hauptman
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View With a Room

We’ll Drink to That Gourmets, oenophiles, and aviation aficionados will all find something to love at Quinta do Paral, a new hotel in a wine-making region of Portugal

By Mary Lussiana
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The Perfect Ending

Michelle Monaghan

The Bad Monkey and White Lotus actress answers 44 of life’s most pressing questions
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David Downton’s Sketchbook

Eva Marie Saint

Hitchcock’s other blonde
The Hitchcock film to end all Hitchcock films, North by Northwest was released 65 years ago in July. You know the story: Cary Grant is a Madison Avenue adman who gets inadvertently caught up in a world of espionage. The film’s frantic pace slows to an undulating rhythm when he meets Eva Marie Saint on a Chicago-bound 20th Century Limited. Of all Hitchcock’s blondes, Saint is the most self-possessed. Tipping the steward to seat Grant at her dining-car table, she quickly gets to the point: “It’s going to be a long night. And I don’t particularly like the book I’ve started. You know what I mean?” The rest of the movie’s dazzling set pieces sometimes feel like Hitchcock mischievously inventing ways to keep them apart until the finale, which finds the pair once again on a train—now on honeymoon—as it rushes suggestively through a tunnel. Saint also celebrated another milestone in July: her 100th birthday.
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August 17, 2024
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