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A LITTLE LIFE

To celebrate R.F.K. Jr.’s appointment to Trump’s transition team, AIR MAIL has compressed his “greatest hits”—bare-chested push-ups! Whale decapitation!—into a single Joycean sentence …

CAUGHT RED-HANDED

Is recently arrested Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov a libertarian tech bro or a Putin puppet? We may never know, but Andrew Ryvkin reports that, either way, Durov has been a troublemaker since his school days …

ESCAPE FROM IDAHO

A year and a half after Bryan Kohberger was arrested for the murder of four college students, his defense team is fighting to move the trial away from the small town where the crime took place …

RENT THE RUNWAY

The rich get cheaper! For jet-owning Manhattanites, the high cost of hangar space at the usual private terminals is enough to flee to an unassuming—and much less convenient—airport on Long Island …

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

How a group of gun-toting, barroom-brawling, future Hall of Famers started leagues that would challenge the N.F.L.’s, N.B.A.’s, and N.H.L.’s monopolies on professional sports …

THE INGMAR BERGMAN OF PORN

Gerard Damiano Sr. revolutionized X-rated filmmaking with 1972’s Deep Throat, but the director never achieved his biggest dream: integrating the porn world and Hollywood …

PUT A CORK IN IT?

Everyone from Post Malone to Sarah Jessica Parker has their own line of rosé. Now that Meghan Markle’s American Riviera Orchard is joining the party, has the wine had its day in the sun?

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

De Niro, Scorsese, and Patti Smith’s fight to save a SoHo garden … the booming pop economy of Taylor Swift … My So-Called Life, one-season wonder … inside America’s deadliest election … unmissable artists’ homes of Stockholm … remembering the Queen’s lady-in-waiting … Cast your vote in this week’s special edition of the Property-Whore Index Poll!

But First …

The View from Here

From bare-chested push-ups to a dead bear in Central Park, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s doomed presidential campaign—condensed into one sentence
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
In Cold Blood

The Eyes of a Killer: Part VIII Have Bryan Kohberger’s defense attorneys stumbled onto a get-out-of-jail-free card?

By Howard Blum
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHOP CHOPPISH SHOP
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Flight Patterns of the Rich

Flying Under the Radar With lower costs and fewer delays, Long Island’s Republic Airport is drawing Manhattan’s private-plane set away from Teterboro. The caveat: it’s farther from Fifth Avenue

By Andrew Zucker
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Crime and Punishment

The Encryption Kid Long before his arrest for allegedly enabling cyber-crime, Telegram creator Pavel Durov used his talents to create a Russian Facebook, organize college beauty contests, and help classmates cheat on exams

By Andrew Ryvkin
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AIR SUPPLY

Top Tailgate

Tailgating is a sport unto itself. From a stunning Business & Pleasure cooler to Springs Fireplace hot sauce, to a GrowlerWerks carbonated, brass-plated growler, AIR SUPPLY has all the trappings required to pop the trunk and put out a spread worthy of champions
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Photo: Toni Frissell Collection/Glasshouse Images/Alamy (tailgaters)
Landing Gear

Droning On The eye in the sky you’ve always dreamed of! Search-by-image software that beats out Google! A Breville coffee-maker that makes everything, from iced coffee to hot chocolate! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis
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Small Talk
“We need to make some cuts. We’ll start with integrity, accountability, openness, and transparency.”
“We need to make some cuts. We’ll start with integrity, accountability, openness, and transparency.”
Guest Edit

Ara Vartanian’s Favorite Things The São Paulo–based jeweler’s designs draw clients such as Anne Hathaway and Swizz Beatz. His style dispatch includes a Vermicular cast-iron pot, Bellocq tea, and a Tokyobike

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Chronicles of Disruption

Game Changers As America’s major sports leagues became moneymaking monopolies, a trio of trailblazing organizations—rife with scandal and star power—tried to cut in on the action

By Bill Keenan
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The Asphalt Jungle

Mean Green Streets Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Patti Smith have joined forces to save a much-loved garden in downtown New York

By Bevan Hurley
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T.G.I.S.

The Property-Whore Index Billionaires like nothing better than getting into property battles with their equally rich neighbors. This week we chart the worst offenders

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Best
WEAR Filson For the past 127 years, Filson has been making outdoorsy men’s wear and accessories—including the rugged twill briefcases and bags… COOK Liguria Some of us refuse to accept that summertime is almost over. Luckily, a new collaboration between Apartamento and Belmond offers… EAT Russo’s Located on 11th Street in the East Village, Russo’s first opened its doors in 1908. The pocket-size, charmingly old-school Italian deli… DINE The Park At long last, Americans in London have the kind of restaurant that provides an elevated and sophisticated taste of… WATCH Reform! American sportswriter and video producer Jon Bois has established himself as a cross between Adam Curtis and Ken Burns among… LISTEN Master Plan In 1971, shortly before he was appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon, Lewis F. Powell Jr. wrote a memo to the American… WEAR Filson For the past 127 years, Filson has been making outdoorsy men’s wear and accessories—including the rugged twill briefcases and bags… COOK Liguria Some of us refuse to accept that summertime is almost over. Luckily, a new collaboration between Apartamento and Belmond offers… EAT Russo’s Located on 11th Street in the East Village, Russo’s first opened its doors in 1908. The pocket-size, charmingly old-school Italian deli… DINE The Park At long last, Americans in London have the kind of restaurant that provides an elevated and sophisticated taste of… WATCH Reform! American sportswriter and video producer Jon Bois has established himself as a cross between Adam Curtis and Ken Burns among… LISTEN Master Plan In 1971, shortly before he was appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon, Lewis F. Powell Jr. wrote a memo to the American…
Swiftonomics

Taylor-Made Bump Sabrina Carpenter, Gracie Abrams, and Paramore have all seen their profiles—and sales—rocket after being support acts on Swift’s record-breaking “Eras Tour”

By Emma Taggart
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Television Classics

Life Lessons from My So-Called Life The groundbreaking 90s drama ran for only one season 30 years ago—but made stars of Claire Danes and Jared Leto and continues to delight

By Rebecca Nicholson
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Past is Prologue

Another Prophecy Fulfilled Published nearly 20 years ago, the visionary writer J. G. Ballard’s final novel foreshadowed the anti-immigrant riots that roiled the U.K. this summer

By Ross Barkan
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Risqué Business

The Ingmar Bergman of Porn Gerard Damiano Sr. made the most popular porn film of all time—Deep Throat—but he always longed to be taken seriously as an auteur

By Spike Carter
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Days of Wine and Rosé

Who’s Blushing? Nearly every actor, musician, and Dancing with the Stars host seems to be shilling their own rosé wine. Now it’s rumored that Meghan Markle is joining the club. But have we finally reached peak pink?

By Simon Mills
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Small Talk
“I know … everybody just assumes I’m a vegetarian.”
“I know … everybody just assumes I’m a vegetarian.”
Artists in Residence

Home Sweet Stockholm A tour of the artistic homes dotting Sweden’s capital, from the Pippi Longstocking author’s apartment to sculptor Carl Milles’s sprawling complex

By Patricia Zohn
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Books
Celia McGee On

Lady Pamela: My Mother’s Extraordinary Years as Daughter to the Viceroy of India, Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen, and Wife of David Hicks

by India Hicks
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Joe Pompeo On

America’s Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History

by Dana Bash with David Fisher
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Inside Story

Face Value At the turn of the 20th century, American women wouldn’t touch blush or lipstick. Then, with her Upper East Side salon, Elizabeth Arden made makeup fashionable

By Stacy A. Cordery
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Open Book

In the Field with Robert Capa A new book collects the photojournalist’s images of major 20th-century events, from the D-day landings, in France, to the arrival of immigrants in the newly established Israel

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New settlers in Tel Aviv, photographed by Robert Capa, circa 1948–50.
Top, high-society vacationers at a horse race in Deauville, France, 1951; above, Renault factory workers on strike in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, 1936.
A Ukrainian policewoman in Soviet-era Kyiv, 1947.
Top, a Republican militiaman in Córdoba, Spain, 1936; above, A D-day soldier at Omaha Beach, in Normandy, 1944.
A coal miner in Saarland, Germany, 1934.
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Small Talk
“For the last time—‘Rider’ is the birthday boy, ‘Laser’ is the party venue, and ‘Scooter’ is the gift we got him.”
“For the last time—‘Rider’ is the birthday boy, ‘Laser’ is the party venue, and ‘Scooter’ is the gift we got him.”
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New Twists in the Idaho Student-Murders Case On this week’s podcast, Howard Blum reveals how the F.B.I. may have compromised evidence

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Travel

A Spanish Inquisition Green, mountainous, and full of excellent wine, Asturias may be one of the corners of the country that still feels ripe for discovery

By Stanley Stewart
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Heaven on Wheels

A Van for All Seasons Could this be the world’s most charming home on wheels?

By Josie Rose
Interview by Ella Kipling
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Highlight

All Wisconsin’s a Stage While often overlooked, the Midwestern state is home to some of America’s finest theater

By Roger Rapoport
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Close-up

Jen Silverman The playwright makes their Broadway debut with The Roommate, starring Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone

By Rhoda Feng
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View With a Room

Go West! At Lone Mountain Ranch, in Montana, the great outdoors are rivaled by the hotel’s interiors

By Marcia DeSanctis
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The Perfect Ending

Natalie Dormer

The Game of Thrones actress answers 22 of life’s most pressing questions
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Fernanda Amis’s Sketchbook
All aboard for one last summer weekend out East.
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August 31, 2024
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