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TROUBLED WATERS

Pop-art pioneer Larry Rivers’s life’s work has landed not at MoMA or the Met but in an obscure gallery in New Jersey—sold off for $300,000 without his son’s knowledge …

THE FOG OF BOB

How Errol Morris came to love former secretary of defense Robert McNamara, the subject of his Oscar-winning documentary, The Fog of War—despite opposing Vietnam …

RISING FROM THE LASHES

Five years ago, we canceled the girlbosses. Today, millennial She-E.O.’s are on the rise again. Bookslut founder Jessa Crispin explains why their comeback was inevitable …

KIND OF BLUE

More than 50 films, four Oscars, several Broadway plays, and a novel into his career, Woody Allen, 89, tells Sam Wasson he’s not proud of anything—almost …

CRASH COURSE

In his new book, finance columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin turns the 1929 market plunge into a character-driven saga of greed and hubris—and reveals how its aftershocks still shape Wall Street today …

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A HOMEBODY

He may have a new novel out, as well as a film adaptation of an older one starring Leonardo DiCaprio, but Thomas Pynchon remains determined to be the most elusive man in American letters …

MAMMA MIA!

Cut off by mountains and time, a remote cluster of Calabrian villages has preserved a Greek dialect that pre-dates even the Roman Empire. Elena Clavarino reports from Gallicianò …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Romance scammers meet their match … Susan Orlean’s new memoir is a Joyride … never-before-seen Marilyn Monroe photos … an American restaurant in Paris … remembering Jilly Cooper, dame of the “bonkbuster” … and another insane week in American health …

But First …
Issue No. 326

The View from Here How I learned to stop worrying and love Robert S. McNamara (if not the Vietnam War)

By Errol Morris
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
Abiding Mystery

What Happened to the Godfather of Pop Art? How the contents of Larry Rivers’s estate and foundation ended up in a second-tier gallery near New Hope, Pennsylvania

By Roxanne Robinson
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Games

The Weekly Waffle

A positively addictive word game to go with your morning coffee
Modern Times

The Girlbosses Next Door Whitney Wolfe Herd, of Bumble; Leandra Medine Cohen, of Man Repeller; Audrey Gelman, of the Wing … The female founders are back, baby. Is anyone surprised?

By Jessa Crispin
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The Picture of Health

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

This week in American health: former U.S. surgeon generals sound the alarm, while R.F.K. Jr. sets his sights on … circumcision and sugar beets
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Adventures in Espionage

To Catch a Catfish A former police officer turned private investigator is hunting down romance scammers preying on wealthy, lonely seniors in Australia

By Frankie Adkins
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Guest Edit

Natasha Stagg’s Favorite Things Upon the release of her second novel, Grand Rapids, the New York City–based author shares her taste for Pimm’s, Astier de Villatte incense, and Burberry Check slides

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Photo: James Emmerman
T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Pete Hegseth pushes up, Kash Patel punches down, and Donald Trump sends the National Guard all around

By George Kalogerakis
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Small Talk

Stump Trump Pam Bondi v. Pam Non-Stick Spray

By John Ficarra
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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Boom and Bust

When the Art World Lost Its Mind (and Money) NFTs once promised to revolutionize creativity and commerce. Four years later, the market has collapsed, fortunes have vanished, and the art scene is still reckoning with what it all meant

By Chris Harvey
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A Life in Film

What’s with Woody? An open letter

By Sam Wasson
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Culture Wars

The Last Enlightenment Man Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker is battling the woke left and the woo-woo right

By James Marriott
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Trouble and Strife

Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be A new biopic about the love affair between Simone Signoret and Yves Montand has the actors’ families declaring it a woke travesty

By Charles Bremner
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Small Talk
Cultural Curiosities

Beware Calabrians Speaking Greek Nestled among the mountains at the tip of Italy’s boot is a constellation of villages that still speak a Greek dialect dating back more than 3,000 years

By Elena Clavarino
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Eight Questions

Too Big to Fail’s Prequel, of Sorts Andrew Ross Sorkin pieced together forgotten diaries and letters to reveal the Shakespearean characters behind the 1929 financial crash—and how they set the stage for Jamie Dimon and Elon Musk

By Jim Kelly
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The Restaurant World

The Return of Simpson’s in the Strand The great London restaurant—renowned for its silver carving trolleys—is being revived by another great British institution: the restaurateur Jeremy King, acclaimed for his impeccable taste

By Ashley Baker
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Open Book

Mad About the Girl A new coffee-table book collects the photographer Sam Shaw’s never-before-seen pictures of his longtime friend and muse, Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe during the filming of The Seven Year Itch, in New York (top) and Los Angeles (above), 1954.
Monroe and Billy Wilder on the set of The Seven Year Itch, Los Angeles, 1954.
With Joe DiMaggio at the premiere of The Seven Year Itch, New York, 1955.
In Amagansett, New York, 1957.
With Arthur Miller on the Queensboro Bridge, New York, 1957.
Top, with Richard Avedon in his photography studio, New York, 1954; above, with Tom Ewell on the set of The Seven Year Itch, New York, 1954.
At her and Miller’s home in Roxbury, Connecticut, 1957.
In Amagansett, 1957.
With Miller in Roxbury, 1957.
Top, with Wilder in Avedon’s studio, 1954; above, on the set of The Seven Year Itch, Los Angeles, 1954.
At Idlewild Airport, later known as John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, 1954.
In Roxbury, 1957.
A letter from Shaw to Monroe, postmarked December 7, 1954.
With Shaw, photographed by Bruno Bernard at the Twentieth Century Fox studios, Los Angeles, 1954.
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A Literary Life

The Curious Case of Thomas Pynchon With the release of Shadow Ticket, his first novel in 12 years, and the Vineland-inspired One Battle After Another in theaters, only one thing is for sure: the author won’t be in evidence

By Alexander Sorondo
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Books
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Joyride: A Memoir

by Susan Orlean
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Secret Italy: The Hidden Villages Lost in Time On this week’s podcast, Elena Clavarino reveals a part of Italy that needs to be seen to be believed

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Inside Story

Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and John Candy A new biography pulls back the curtain on the Canadian comedian who died at just 43—and the role he turned down in Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction

By Paul Myers
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Highlight
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A self-portrait by Cecil Beaton, circa 1935.
Audrey Hepburn, photographed by Beaton in costume for My Fair Lady, 1963.
Queen Elizabeth II on her coronation day, London, 1953.
Elizabeth Taylor at the Dorchester hotel, London, 1955.
Worldly Colour (models in Charles James gowns for a Vogue photo shoot), New York, 1948.
Truman Capote at Reddish House, Beaton’s home in Broad Chalke, England, 1948.
Venus Unmasked (Marilyn Monroe at the Ambassador Hotel in New York), 1956.
Best Invitation of the Season (the model Nina de Voe in a Balmain ball gown), 1951.
Princess Emeline de Broglie, 1928.
Aircraft Recognition Room, 1941.
The Second Age of Beauty Is Glamour (a model in a Norman Hartnell suit for British Vogue), 1946.
Beaton and Capote in Tangier, 1949.
Leslie Caron on the set of Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi, Paris, 1958.
The actor Louis Jourdan and Caron on the set of Gigi, 1958.
Hepburn in costume for My Fair Lady, 1963.

The World According to Cecil Beaton

Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, born in 1904 in Hampstead, England, looked at the world and thought he could do better. “I have wonderful plans and I am going to do marvelous things,” announced the youngster. Taught how to use a camera by his nanny, educated at Harrow and Cambridge, he worked briefly in the family timber business and then proceeded to build a Beatonian brand: life as a rococo fantasy where he would craft the sets and costumes, write the essays and plays, and capture it all through his camera lens in a photographic style that married Edwardian stage portraiture and European Surrealism. READ ON

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Close-up

Harmonia Rosales Known for re-creating Renaissance paintings with Black characters, the artist is now making her authorial debut to preserve African myths for future generations

By Elena Clavarino
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Food

Southern Comfort A new American restaurant in Paris brings Low Country cooking to the chichi residents of the Seventh Arrondissement. But are they biting?

By Alexander Lobrano
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Small Talk
View With a Room

Remote Control At Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge, in Canada, the nature cure is supercharged by exceptional hospitality

By Victoria Malloy
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Great Lives

Ladies and Gentlemen, Jilly Cooper She was a consummate entertainer—as well as a gifted novelist and journalist—and her devoted fans and friends could never get enough

By Harry Mount
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The Perfect Ending

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

The Game of Thrones actor answers 19 of life’s most pressing questions
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