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YOU CAN’T SEE EVERYTHING

Before Elizabeth Holmes agreed to be filmed by Nathan Fielder, she invited another documentary director into Theranos in an attempt to stage her own alternate reality—and recruit him into it …

CURB YOUR COLLECTIVISM

Upon joining the Democratic Socialists of America, Larry David proposes some new additions to the party platform—mandatory siestas, bereavement leave for goldfish. Comrades, brace yourselves …

FOWL PLAY

Kelly Clarkson’s spat with a Brooklyn curio shop over a mechanical songbird has divided the Internet. Is she Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman or an irksome Karen? Stuart Heritage surveys the battlefield …

THEIR BROTHER’S KEEPERS

Nine years after a mystery jogger horrified Britain by pushing a woman into the path of a London bus, a banker descended from Queen Victoria was arrested—and later found dead. His sisters want answers …

POUR RELATION

While Burgundy prices have gone through the château roof, Bordeaux has never been cheaper. Our wine critic, Jay McInerney, noses out distinguished bottles at modest prices. Your dinner guests needn’t know …

WARDROBE WISDOM

In Los Angeles, you are what you drive. In New York, says our men’s-wear advice columnist, Michael Hainey, you are your winter coat. Plus: how to wear flannel without looking ready to chop wood …

GONZO IN PARADISE

Sent to cover the Honolulu Marathon, Hunter S. Thompson had surfing, cockfighting, and pharmaceuticals on his mind. In an exclusive excerpt, he pitches Ralph Steadman on a Hawaiian adventure …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Sant Ambroeus turned Milanese manners into a restaurant empire … bad-boy chef Thomas Straker lands in Manhattan (and beefs with Keith McNally) … George Saunders’s ghostly Lincoln in the Bardo raises the dead—and the roof—at the Metropolitan Opera … and a sumptuous safari camp in Botswana with a Hemingway connection …

But First …
Issue No. 379

The View from Here Larry David dons his keffiyeh, grabs his Little Red Book, and joins the Democratic Socialists of America. Naturally, the creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm has a few suggestions to make everyone uncomfortable

By Larry David
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
Anatomy of a Scandal

The Shadow of the Putney Pusher Nine years after a jogger shoved a woman into the path of a London bus, a suspect with royal connections was arrested. Now he is dead, and his sisters want answers

By Eilidh Hargreaves
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHOP CHOPPISH SHOP
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Games

The Weekly Waffle

A positively addictive word game to go with your morning coffee
blood, lies, and videotape

“It’s Elizabeth Holmes … I Understand We’ll Be Making a Film Together” The Theranos documentary that wasn’t

By Ravi Somaiya
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petty woman

Kelly Clarkson and the Bird That Divided Brooklyn The singer’s claim that she got the Pretty Woman treatment in a ritzy New York toy store has sparked a frenzy of heated opinions

By Stuart Heritage
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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Air Supply

Boo, Who?

For the costumes that commit, the cocktails that keep coming, and the kind of entrance that makes arriving fashionably late feel like an obligation
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Photo: ABC Photo/Disney/Getty Images (Addams Family dog with Cousin Itt)
Guest Edit

Lindye Galloway’s Favorite Things The California designer has made an art of the well-appointed home. Her latest project? Convincing you to redecorate yours

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The Last Vice

The Bordeaux Bargain As wealthy collectors turn to Burgundy and younger oenophiles flock to the Loire, some of France’s best wines are selling for a relative steal. Our wine critic explains why it’s time to stock up

By Jay McInerney
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Rock of Eye

Of Advice and Men Our men’s-wear advice columnist champions dressing like a lumberjack—and settles other pressing autumn-style queries

By Michael Hainey
ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRANZ LANG
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Best
wear Cara Cara Cara Cara has made a very good business of cheerful prints and crisp poplin, so suede, shearling, and tailored wool are something… read Jolt What a shiny and privileged life Ted Scheiman seemed to lead: a graduate of Hotchkiss and Yale, he seemed destined to be another… buy Nothing Founded in 2020, London-headquartered Nothing is one of the only tech companies I find to be doing exciting things in the dismal space… watch The Night of the Hunter Spelled out on his left knuckles is H-A-T-E, and on his right, L-O-V-E. Although a commercial and critical flop… set Laboratorio Paravicini x The Ark Elements Hosting season is upon us—but that doesn’t mean we should revert to… listen Partita Playlist Barbara Kingsolver needs no introduction. Neither does her latest novel, Partita, which follows a classical-piano prodigy… wear Cara Cara Cara Cara has made a very good business of cheerful prints and crisp poplin, so suede, shearling, and tailored wool are something… read Jolt What a shiny and privileged life Ted Scheiman seemed to lead: a graduate of Hotchkiss and Yale, he seemed destined to be another… buy Nothing Founded in 2020, London-headquartered Nothing is one of the only tech companies I find to be doing exciting things in the dismal space… watch The Night of the Hunter Spelled out on his left knuckles is H-A-T-E, and on his right, L-O-V-E. Although a commercial and critical flop… set Laboratorio Paravicini x The Ark Elements Hosting season is upon us—but that doesn’t mean we should revert to… listen Partita Playlist Barbara Kingsolver needs no introduction. Neither does her latest novel, Partita, which follows a classical-piano prodigy…
An Immaculate Confection

The Sant Ambroeus Diaries Ninety years since opening as a small Milanese café, the Italian institution has changed hands, grown to 30 locations, and watched its hometown rise from former Austrian rump state to international cultural capital

By Mario Calvo-Platero
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class pictures

The World According to Tina Barney

Raised among Lehmans and Paleys, the photographer didn’t pick up a camera until well into adulthood. Five decades later, an exhibition examines how her fashionable youth found its way into her groundbreaking work
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hot to handle

Churning Up SoHo The British chef Thomas Straker—London’s heartthrob and the Internet’s “Butter King”—dishes on his many martinis, taking Manhattan by storm, and his very public spat with Keith McNally

By Vassi Chamberlain
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Around the World in Culture
In Theaters
Twenty years after the Keira Knightley–led Pride & Prejudice, its producers return to Jane Austen with Sense and Sensibility… In Amsterdam
The first retrospective in the Netherlands dedicated to James McNeill Whistler’s work opens at the Van Gogh Museum… In New York
Andrew Scott is back onstage in Sea Wall, a one-man play that will be filmed during its run and later released as a movie… On Apple TV
A documentary looks beyond the designer Karl Lagerfeld’s ponytailed personality to reveal the clothes that made the man… In New York
The Frick Collection presents the first exhibition to spotlight the city of Siena as a capital of bronze sculpture during the Renaissance… In London
Cindy Sherman returns to Hauser & Wirth with a new photographic series that confronts fashion’s obsession with youth and perfection…
Adventures in Journalism

Gonzo in Paradise When Hunter S. Thompson set out to cover the Honolulu Marathon—with a touch of cockfighting on the side—he first had to convince his old pal Ralph Steadman to join him …

By Hunter S. Thompson
Illustrations by Ralph Steadman
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A Ralph Steadman illustration of Hunter S. Thompson at the foot of an erupting volcano in Kona, signature cigarette holder in mouth.
Steadman and Thompson’s story quickly turned away from the marathon and toward his obsessive attempts to catch a giant marlin.
“A woman who runs is a very attractive person.”
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
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Mystery

Murder, They Wrote The strange sinking of a luxury ocean liner! A train hijacking en route to London! Disasters punctuate this fall’s best mysteries…

By Lisa Henricksson
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Highlight

“The Book Really Wanted to Sing All Along” The Metropolitan Opera presents the world premiere of Lincoln in the Bardo, an operatic adaptation of the 2017 novel by George Saunders

By Neal Goren
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View With a Room

The Last Frontier How a wilderness outpost built by legendary hunter Jack Bousfield—guide to Clark Gable and Ernest Hemingway—became Botswana’s most decadent tented hotel

By Stanley Stewart
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October 17, 2026
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