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Issue No. 272

The View from Here My weekend in the Laotian Las Vegas, where an opulent casino lies at the heart of a vast human-, drug-, and wildlife-trafficking operation

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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Horror at Harrods Mohamed Al-Fayed has been revealed as a serial rapist who kept his victims quiet through threats and blackmail. His biographer reveals the resentment that fueled the magnate’s crimes

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Love Among the Ruins: Part Two Shattered by my sister Dorothy Stratten’s murder, Peter Bogdanovich and I were bonded for life. Not everyone in Hollywood approved

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After Hours

A Night at the Newsstand Tom Freston, Christiane Amanpour, Dexter Filkins, Nick Pileggi, Ken Auletta, and others gathered at the AIR MAIL book-and-magazine outpost in Greenwich Village in celebration of media entrepreneur Saad Mohseni’s new book


His Back Pages AIR MAIL Co-Editor Graydon Carter’s upcoming memoir, about the glory days of magazines, recounts his travels among the famous, the infamous, and the not really famous at all

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A Clean Act The best robot vacuum cleaner! Speakers good enough for the Stones! A battery-powered lamp that could win design awards! And more …

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Guest Edit

Nili Lotan’s Favorite Things Designer Nili Lotan opened her first men’s store, in Tribeca, earlier this month. Here, she shares her picks for a life of enduring style

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Spy Games As the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks approaches, Israel’s Mossad is making not-so-secret moves to restore its damaged reputation

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Mar-a-Gaga Not-so-subtle signs Donald Trump has lost a step or two

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The Attention-Whore Index Elon Musk spats with a warlord, Donald Trump struggles with a gender, and Mark Robinson swears he’s not what he said he is on a porn site

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Best
SCROLL OffBall At their peak, Sports Illustrated and Grantland were beacons of light in the world of sports journalism—but times changed, and they… LISTEN Carney If you need an escape from today’s pop hits, Leon Russell’s 1972 indie album, Carney, is just for you. Released at the peak of Russell’s… COOK Midweek Recipes Once a café, Elliott’s now exists as a beautiful studio in a renovated newsstand space on a quiet residential road in Edinburgh. Its… WEAR Stable of Ireland Sonia Reynolds and Francie Duff founded Stable in 2016 with a simple objective: to celebrate traditional Irish craftsmanship… DECORATE Armani Giorgio Armani’s interior-décor offshoot, Armani/Casa, is making its own design upgrades in Los Angeles. Its store just relocated… SIP Emory Hotel Rooftop Bar The all-suite Emory Hotel, in London’s Belgravia, is located just next door to its sister… SCROLL OffBall At their peak, Sports Illustrated and Grantland were beacons of light in the world of sports journalism—but times changed, and they… LISTEN Carney If you need an escape from today’s pop hits, Leon Russell’s 1972 indie album, Carney, is just for you. Released at the peak of Russell’s… COOK Midweek Recipes Once a café, Elliott’s now exists as a beautiful studio in a renovated newsstand space on a quiet residential road in Edinburgh. Its… WEAR Stable of Ireland Sonia Reynolds and Francie Duff founded Stable in 2016 with a simple objective: to celebrate traditional Irish craftsmanship… DECORATE Armani Giorgio Armani’s interior-décor offshoot, Armani/Casa, is making its own design upgrades in Los Angeles. Its store just relocated… SIP Emory Hotel Rooftop Bar The all-suite Emory Hotel, in London’s Belgravia, is located just next door to its sister…
Small Talk
“The two spaces after a period were a dead giveaway.”

Into the Wilde In Milan, a new wave of members-only clubs is transforming the city’s social fabric

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The Sally Rooney Effect Writers, editors, and booksellers weigh in on the new book by the world’s most talked-about young novelist

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Elaine May Speaks! A rare interview, over deviled eggs, at Sardi’s

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For All Your Death-Defying Needs Whether you were Amelia Earhart, Ernest Hemingway, or a very hungover Clark Gable, the original Abercrombie & Fitch was the perfect store for adventurers of all stripes

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Small Talk
“Edgar, I said, ‘Never mind.’ And I was referring to the nachos.”

The Man with Designs on Your Time The Royal Oak and Nautilus made Gérald Genta the Taylor Swift of horological design. But even geniuses can have their off days

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Books

Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir

by Ina Garten
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Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

by Sonia Purnell
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On the Scent During World War II, spies had a little-suspected weapon: perfume. It was used for everything from building an undercover alias to making covert correspondences seem like love letters

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Open Book

Design Within Reach Lamps, teacups, ashtrays … A new coffee-table book traces the life and work of the Italian designer Piero Fornasetti

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The Sin City of the 21st Century On this week’s podcast, Darius J. Rubin visits a crime-ridden Asian Las Vegas shrouded in mystery

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When Lee Met Dave From the front lines to Hitler’s bathtub, Lee Miller and my father, Dave Scherman, made one of the great photojournalistic duos

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Irene Maiorino The Italian actress, who stars as Lila in the fourth and final season of My Brilliant Friend, describes her serendipitous connections with Elena Ferrante’s characters

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The Blue Circus, by Marc Chagall, 1950–52.

Moment of Moments

Just how relevant is Marc Chagall? With a big retrospective on this ever popular, downright lovable painter now opening at the Albertina Museum, in Vienna, it’s a question worth asking. In the decades since Chagall’s 1930s ascension to the art-world firmament, his idiosyncratic imagery—big-eyed cows, green-faced fiddlers, flying newlyweds—has become, if not exactly cliché, a much-hugged baby blanket from the glory years of European modernism. READ ON


We’ll Always Have Le Meurice After a thoughtful renovation, the grande dame on the Rue de Rivoli is looking better than ever

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Simone Rocha The designer reveals her travel routine

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Pip Carter’s Sketchbook
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In Memoriam

Peter Bogdanovich Duncan Hannah Douglas McGrath Richard David Story André Leon Talley

Issue No. 272
September 28, 2024
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Issue No. 272
September 28, 2024

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