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CATCH-32

The Trump administration may rely on an obscure legal loophole—Title 32 of the U.S. Code—to wrest control of the National Guard and dispatch units to other states to round up illegal immigrants and protesters …

UNREAL ESTATE

Billionaire estate collector Stephen A. Schwarzman is once again irking the locals, this time by adding a lake to his $85 million, 17th-century manor in the English countryside …

ROCKET MONEY

With an ironclad pre-nup in hand, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is readying for his modest $10 million Venice wedding to Lauren Sánchez before 200 of their closest rich and famous friends …

MAMZERS ONLY

Donald Trump Jr. plans to open a luxurious private club with a $500,000 membership fee for high rollers who don’t mind sharing space in a Georgetown mall with T.J. Maxx and the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles …

THE HANDBAG DESIGNER’S TALE

Kate Spade’s best friend recalls the early struggles and successes that shaped the entrepreneur who, alongside her husband, Andy Spade, created a fashion empire, before killing herself in 2018 …

HONOR ROLE

Alfred Dreyfus, whose wrongful conviction for treason in 1894 by anti-Semitic right-wingers still haunts France, may now be headed for the Panthéon, alongside Voltaire, Rousseau, and Marie Curie …

PICTURE-IN-PICTURE

The mystery over the origins of the black-and-white photo of a party with Jack Nicholson’s head pasted onto it that was used for the ending of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining has been solved at last …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE …

Thomas Mallon’s 1980s diaries … James Bond lives on … Britain’s strawberry madness … Bessie Carter stars as Nancy Mitford in Outrageous … festa perfetta at Il Pellicano … Marina Abramović’s favorite things … Cast your vote in this week’s Attention-Whore Index Poll!

But First …
Issue No. 309

The View from Here Will Trump use an obscure legal loophole to turn the National Guard into an anti-immigrant army answerable only to him?

By George Pendle
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
Countryside Kerfuffle

An Embarrassment of Houses New York, Water Mill, St. Tropez, Newport—Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman just can’t stop. Now he’s coming for the English countryside

By Joseph Bullmore
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHOP CHOPPISH SHOP
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Washington Confidential

A Grand Old Party Donald Trump Jr.’s new Georgetown members’ club, Executive Branch, caters to the MAGA elite, with fine wines, R.F.K. Jr.–approved cuisine, and complete privacy from liberals

By Maura Judkis
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Nutty Nuptials

Save Venice! The wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez is happening imminently, whether you like it or not. Here’s what to expect

By Stuart Heritage
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Air Supply

Escape to Canada

As July Fourth weekend approaches, AIR SUPPLY feels compelled northward. O, Canada! Our guide to a short (or extended) getaway to the Great White North includes the makings of a Canadian tuxedo, a Kikkerland briefcase barbecue, I Didn’t Vote for Him merchandise, and more
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Guest Edit

Monica Lewinsky’s Favorite Things The host of the Wondery podcast Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky shares her must-haves for a well-lived life

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Inside Story

My Best Friendship with Kate Spade The designer’s co-founder reveals how a broke student from Kansas named Katy Brosnahan became handbag maven “Kate Spade”

By Elyce Arons
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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Mary Miller gets ready for her close-up, Donald Trump takes aim at protesters, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fires all the vaccine experts

By George Kalogerakis
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Best
set Ginori 1735 x Luke Edward Hall Italy’s Ginori 1735, known for its finely crafted porcelain, continues its collaboration with British… STAY The Newt x Burberry The Newt in Somerset is a relatively new but already much-loved British hotel. This summer, it’s getting a dose of heritage… Look Here to There Inside every desk jockey is an artist who’s tearing at the walls, dying to get out. Well, maybe that’s not exactly true. But it is for one… BID David Lynch Auction Like a windswept rockabilly guitarist from a parallel universe, David Lynch came from the middle of nowhere and ended up… READ Ellmann’s Joyce Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce came out in 1959, and it is still hailed as one of the finest biographies ever written… READ Silent Retreat A lot of people might be uncertain about what to pack for a week of spiritual reflection at a monastery, but the heroine of Sally Quinn’s… set Ginori 1735 x Luke Edward Hall Italy’s Ginori 1735, known for its finely crafted porcelain, continues its collaboration with British… STAY The Newt x Burberry The Newt in Somerset is a relatively new but already much-loved British hotel. This summer, it’s getting a dose of heritage… Look Here to There Inside every desk jockey is an artist who’s tearing at the walls, dying to get out. Well, maybe that’s not exactly true. But it is for one… BID David Lynch Auction Like a windswept rockabilly guitarist from a parallel universe, David Lynch came from the middle of nowhere and ended up… READ Ellmann’s Joyce Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce came out in 1959, and it is still hailed as one of the finest biographies ever written… READ Silent Retreat A lot of people might be uncertain about what to pack for a week of spiritual reflection at a monastery, but the heroine of Sally Quinn’s…
Small Talk

Parade’s End Trump’s birthday wish list has a lot more on it than just a Soviet-style military procession

By Victoria Herman
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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J’Accuse!

An Affair to Remember Alfred Dreyfus, the French-Jewish army captain wrongfully accused of treason in a scandal immortalized by Zola, gets redemption

By Peter Conradi
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHOP CHOPPISH SHOP
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Small Talk

Health Scare Popular theories on why R.F.K. Jr. fired the entire C.D.C. vaccine advisory panel

By John Ficarra
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007 Diaries

The Great James Bond Renaissance While the next 007 film languishes in Amazon purgatory, a new wave of book spin-offs are re-inventing the British spy for the next generation

By Dominic Maxwell
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Books
Thomas Beller On

The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983–1994

by Thomas Mallon
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Small Talk
“I think I can handle kids splashing myself.”
“I think I can handle kids splashing myself.”
Close-up

Bessie Carter The daughter of Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter lands the lead role in the new Mitford-sisters series, Outrageous

By Carolina de Armas
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After Hours

Italians Do It Better At a celebration for Il Pellicano’s 60th anniversary, Jack Antonoff, Haider Ackermann, and Edie Campbell dined and danced the night away

By Ashley Baker
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Behind the Scenes

A Photo Finish Forty-five years after The Shining’s release, a reporter and an academic doggedly tracked down the original version of the eerie photograph that Kubrick chose to close the film with

By Spike Carter
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Highlight
The Bathers, by Paul Cézanne, 1899–1904.

Summer of Cézanne

“I shall astonish Paris with apples,” Paul Cézanne said defiantly in 1895, at 56, on the eve of his first and long-overdue solo exhibition there. Unlike the dreamy, colorful Impressionists whose work was the talk of the capital, Cézanne’s experimental painting had trouble finding a sweet spot with the public, critics, and collectors. This summer, his apples—and mountains and bathers and portraits of the solid citizens of Aix-en-Provence, his sunny, beloved birthplace—are the locus of a cornucopia of exhibitions and events that should astonish us. Even if we think we know Cézanne well. READ ON

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English Summer

Strawberry Fever! No other fruit touches British hearts quite like the strawberry—a summer pleasure that, thanks to new varietals, tastes better than ever

By Ashley Baker
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Open Book

Portrait of a Country on Fire A new book of photographs by Mitch Epstein captures the devastating impact of industry on the American landscape—and the fragile pockets of nature that remain

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The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, in California, photographed by Mitch Epstein, 2022.
The Hoh Rain Forest, in Olympic National Park, Washington, 2017.
A big-leaf maple in Olympic National Park, 2021.
A Sitka spruce in Olympic National Park, 2021.
The Congress Trail, in Sequoia National Park, California, 2021.
The Amos Coal Power Plant, in Raymond, West Virginia, 2004.
Patriarch Grove, in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, 2021.
The Ocean Warwick oil platform, off the shores of Dauphin Island, Alabama, 2005.
A coastal redwood in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, California, 2021.
Standing Rock Prayer Walk, a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline, near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, North Dakota, 2018.
Tree sitters protesting the construction of the Sunoco oil pipeline at Camp White Pine in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, 2017.
Biloxi, Mississippi, 2005.
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Small Talk
“On the plus side, we can really use the rain.”
“On the plus side, we can really use the rain.”
Listen

Save Venice! Inside the Bezos-Sánchez Wedding On this week’s podcast, Stuart Heritage reports on what to expect at the bridezilla-iest wedding ever

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View With a Room

Pool Party The Marbella Club has been drawing Europe’s bon vivants for the past 70 years. After a recent renovation, it’s more alluring than ever

By Alexandra Shulman
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The Perfect Ending

Marina Abramović

The Serbian performance artist answers 25 of life’s most pressing questions
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