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Issue No. 327

The View from Here The Trump administration has waged war on higher education. Why aren’t more university presidents speaking up?

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The Shop That Put the Swing in Swinging London At Granny Takes a Trip, the Chelsea clothing store whose customers included John Lennon, Mick Jagger, and Lou Reed, it was difficult to tell who was a pop star and who wasn’t

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Un-Maintenance Steve McQueen’s granddaughter is suing for ownership of a $68 million Jackson Pollock painting, which the actor allegedly swapped for a motorcycle that never appeared

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Is Sam Altman a Psycho C.E.O.? Without guilt or guardrails, the co-founder of OpenAI has created a trillion-dollar empire built on appropriation, bootlicking, and slop

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A Portrait of the Id as an Old Man The relationship between Kate Moss and Lucian Freud was filled with a charged intimacy—but a new film on the two lacks spark

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What to Wear to a Breakup How to dress for a graceful separation

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How the World Entered Its Predator Era In his latest book, The Wizard of the Kremlin author Giuliano da Empoli sets his sights on the beastly forces dominating our time, from Javier Milei to Vladimir Putin

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The Attention-Whore Index Donald Trump damns himself, Prince Andrew dooms himself, and Kristi Noem deludes herself

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read Love Johnny Carson In this day and age, it is impossible to believe that 15 million Americans would tune in to the same late-night comedy show decorate Heather Taylor Home x The Company Store If decorating is your idea of a good time, Heather Taylor Home’s new collection for The Company wear Helen Kaminski Controversial statement: a traditional baseball cap looks slightly out of place once the weather turns… watch The Man Who Saves the World? Who’s to say that ancient prophecies won’t come true? Meet Patrick McCollum:”a peacemaker… listen Doc Pomus You might already love Doc Pomus’s work. Or you might be a fan and not even realize it. Here’s a partial list of the pop gems… Read Martha Graham Dance Company 100 Years In 1926, a small, slim, raven-haired woman founded a dance company of women. They performed… read Love Johnny Carson In this day and age, it is impossible to believe that 15 million Americans would tune in to the same late-night comedy show decorate Heather Taylor Home x The Company Store If decorating is your idea of a good time, Heather Taylor Home’s new collection for The Company wear Helen Kaminski Controversial statement: a traditional baseball cap looks slightly out of place once the weather turns… watch The Man Who Saves the World? Who’s to say that ancient prophecies won’t come true? Meet Patrick McCollum:”a peacemaker… listen Doc Pomus You might already love Doc Pomus’s work. Or you might be a fan and not even realize it. Here’s a partial list of the pop gems… Read Martha Graham Dance Company 100 Years In 1926, a small, slim, raven-haired woman founded a dance company of women. They performed…
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Alexandra Niakani and Davitta Niakani-Bartlow’s Favorite Things The sisters behind the Spanish restaurants Ernesto’s, on the Lower East Side, and Bartolo, in the West Village, share their style

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Hatmaking’s Lifeblood On the South Side of Chicago, the founder of Optimo Hats quietly churns out impeccably made fedoras and Panamas for clients including Sean Penn and John C. Reilly

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The Man Behind the Monster The little-known story of the Harvard professor whose sadistic experiments may have helped transform Ted Kaczynski into the Unabomber

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Becoming Richard Burton Matthew Rhys returns to his native Wales to inhabit the baritone Shakespearean actor—and fellow countryman—in a one-man play

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After Hours

A Night Celebrating Vincenzo Latronico and Meghan Daum At a party hosted by AIR MAIL and Montblanc, Sarah Jessica Parker, Emma Roberts, and Bette Midler toasted the winners of the inaugural Tom Wolfe literary prizes

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The Beatnik and the Mobster How did an unpublished story by Jack Kerouac end up in the possession of Gambino crime boss Paul Castellano?

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A bird’s-eye view of Château Léoube, tucked away on a peninsula overlooking the Mediterranean.

Surreal Estate

Lord Anthony and Lady Carole Bamford are saying, “Mi casa es su casa”—but in French. Which casa, you ask? Not their 1,500-acre Daylesford House, in the Cotswolds (where they hosted the wedding reception of their friends Boris and Carrie Johnson), but another property that’s just as storied. READ ON


How to Dress Like a Rock God On this week’s podcast, Mark Rozzo discusses the wild shop that dressed John and Paul, Mick, Lou Reed, and many more in London’s Swinging 60s

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Stand-up Guy Will Arnett plays a recently divorced comic in a bittersweet film directed by Bradley Cooper and co-starring Laura Dern

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Vincent Lo Brutto and Pablo Stahl With their Parisian gallery and its unconventional outpost at Basel’s private airport terminal, the French gallerist duo is moving beyond the bounds of traditional curation

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Religious Nuts From salted peanuts to caffeinated wine to CBD-infused tea, churches, monasteries, and convents create some of the world’s finest gourmet victuals

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The Return of the Boozer Young Londoners are skipping gastro pubs and returning to something a little less polished, more authentic, and decidedly sticky

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Books

Winston and the Windsors: How Churchill Shaped a Royal Dynasty

by Andrew Morton
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“Who’s the new guy?”

Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch Heroes and victims on the autism spectrum add a layer of complexity and cleverness to this month’s best mystery books and TV shows

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Joan Crawford wearing her Raymond Yard–designed jewels, now part of Neil Lane’s collection, circa 1940.

“My Journey in Jewels”

When Neil Lane was growing up in Marine Park, Brooklyn, in the 1950s, the best game in town was scrapping for street castoffs: unwanted highboys, bric-a-brac, the occasional box of costume jewelry, some Libbey glass. Enterprising and loaded with dreams of becoming an artist, Lane began to sell his late-night loot to make money. And money, coupled with his innate moxie and charm, was Lane’s ticket to Somewhere Else. READ ON


Water Works Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa, in Baden-Baden, has reopened after a loving renovation

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Issue No. 327
October 18, 2025
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Issue No. 327
October 18, 2025

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