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Issue No. 350

The View from Here A fable for our times (with apologies to Shel Silverstein)

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Down and Dirty on Nantucket The alleged vandalizing of geotubes installed to prevent beach erosion is exposing fault lines between the island’s affluent summer residents and year-round locals

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Games

Small Talk
“You can keep your shoes on, but those socks have to go.”

Moscow Goes (Digitally) Dark Russia has suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and lost much of its influence in the region. This month, the capital went weeks without Internet

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Harry and Meghan’s Mane Chance With their prospects drying up faster than Meghan can make her jam, the Sussexes’ latest Netflix cash grab is a polo series set in Wellington, Florida

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Nicky Hilton Rothschild’s Favorite Things Her latest La Coqueta collaboration celebrates family fun with just enough whimsy to make every spring outing feel intentional. Here are the pieces she can’t live without

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The Gentlemen’s Hour Trendy new members’ clubs are taking over Manhattan, but some young men are opting for the city’s Gilded Age mainstays instead—trading flashy perks for old-school allure

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Seats of Power You can fill a table with impressive people and still have an unremarkable dinner party—the difference lies in the seating chart

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André Leon Talley at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2006 Costume Institute Benefit, dressed for the theme, “AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion.”

Force of Fashion

When Paula Wallace, president and co-founder of the Savannah College of Art and Design, proposed to André Leon Talley that the school create an exhibition devoted to his wardrobe, the redoubtable fashion editor exclaimed, “It must be done!” In fact, since that conversation, SCAD has mounted three such shows, each entitled “André Leon Talley: Style Is Forever.” The first opened at the SCAD Museum of Art, in Savannah; the second at the SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, in Atlanta; and now the third opens on Wednesday at the university’s study-abroad campus, SCAD FASH Lacoste, in Provence, France. READ ON

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wear Burberry Burberry is bringing back our dearest Lilibet. To mark the centenary of Her Majesty’s birth, the fashion house has teamed up with… watch Deep End In New York—a city desperate for third spaces—bathhouses have emerged as an intimate way to meet new people. (See here.) But before… spritz Le Labo As the world around us transitions out of winter heaviness to the airy and light spring, so does my daily perfume. Violette 30 read Returning Nicholas Lemann is not one for small topics. He wrote about the great Black migration from the rural South to the urban North in… listen Love Story First released in 1991, Lenny Kravitz’s “It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over” is having a major resurgence after being featured in the premiere of… sip Ammos A martini, to me, is only ever made with gin. A new brand of vodka has me convinced, however, that a juniper-less martini can… wear Burberry Burberry is bringing back our dearest Lilibet. To mark the centenary of Her Majesty’s birth, the fashion house has teamed up with… watch Deep End In New York—a city desperate for third spaces—bathhouses have emerged as an intimate way to meet new people. (See here.) But before… spritz Le Labo As the world around us transitions out of winter heaviness to the airy and light spring, so does my daily perfume. Violette 30 read Returning Nicholas Lemann is not one for small topics. He wrote about the great Black migration from the rural South to the urban North in… listen Love Story First released in 1991, Lenny Kravitz’s “It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over” is having a major resurgence after being featured in the premiere of… sip Ammos A martini, to me, is only ever made with gin. A new brand of vodka has me convinced, however, that a juniper-less martini can…
Books

The News from Dublin

by Colm Tóibín
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Around the World in Culture
Open Book

Helmut Newton’s Hot Takes A coffee-table book and exhibition re-create a 1999 album of the photographer’s most experimental work, collecting never-before-seen images and their handwritten pencil annotations


Eugeniu Zubco On the 37th floor of a Fifth Avenue tower, the 31-year-old Moldovan sushi chef and Masa alum is leading Manhattan’s most exclusive new omakase counter

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Mit Einem Tiger Schlafen (Sleeping with a Tiger), by Maria Lassnig, 1975.

The Unbreakable Maria Lassnig

You might have found her standing or sitting or even stretched out on a canvas on the floor, downloading every bodily sensation, eyes wide shut to capture the evanescent colors inside her eyelids before she began to paint. Through these and other radical methodologies, the Austrian artist Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) channeled her perception of a moment and made the invisible visible. Just now, her art is the subject of three concurrent exhibitions: “Flow of Paint = Flow of Life,” at the Hamburger Kunsthalle; “Honey, You’re a Wonderful Model,” at the Des Moines Art Center; and “Maria Lassnig,” at Petzel, in Manhattan. READ ON

Small Talk
“Well, that’s enough TV for tonight if we want to get in our hour of doomscrolling before bed.”

Out of the Jeep, into the Saddle In the rugged heart of Kenya’s Laikipia Plateau, Sosian Lodge offers a rare, high-octane alternative to the traditional safari

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Issue No. 350
March 28, 2026
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Issue No. 350
March 28, 2026

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