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READING BETWEEN THE LINES

In part two of his series on the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, Howard Blum reveals that investigators are reckoning with ransom notes, Bitcoin trails, and a grim possibility: that their best chance to save her was missed …

RUSSKI BUSINESS

Sanctioned, poisoned, and still seemingly trusted by both Kyiv and the Kremlin, the billionaire oligarch Roman Abramovich has become Putin’s unlikely back channel to peace with Zelensky, reports Andrew Ryvkin …

CARRY-ON CLIMBING

Jen Rubio built Away into a luggage sensation. Now, with yachts, museum donations, and invitations to the Met Gala and top fashion shows, she’s following the billionaire playbook into high society, says Ashley Baker …

CANNES vs. CANNES

For decades, the Cannes Film Festival ruled La Croisette. Now, Cannes Lions—with its advertisers, tech bros, and A.I. money—is attracting the stars, and shaping the future of entertainment …

NOT TOO POSH TO PUSH

Nine years after a jogger shoved a woman into the path of a London bus, the “Putney Pusher” case is back in the public eye—and a private banker with royal connections is the prime suspect …

LIGHT WORK

For more than five decades, Paolo Roversi has created some of fashion’s most enduring images. The photographer looks back at a life behind the lens in an exclusive interview with Elena Clavarino …

BOOK CLUB!

From beach-house entanglements to trad-wife time travel, our editors’ summer reading list delivers family venom, literary glamour, and lashings of sex to your Fourth of July holiday beach bag …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Eve Babitz turns a shoe insult into a dazzling takedown of male condescension in a newly uncovered letter … our shopping expert shows you how to put the trusty Enneagram to good use … Keith McNally’s son George is getting into the family business … and a secret art-world hangout on the island of Hydra …

But First …
Issue No. 362

The View from Here As the Russia-Ukraine war drags into its fifth year, it’s clear that traditional diplomacy has failed. But an unlikely go-between has stepped into the breach: high-living oligarch Roman Abramovich

By Andrew Ryvkin
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
Gone Girl

Inside the Search for Nancy Guthrie: Part II Did law enforcement make a colossal—even fatal—mistake in the investigation’s early days?

By Howard Blum
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Games

The Weekly Waffle

A positively addictive word game to go with your morning coffee
Small Talk
“I think she’s saying I’m putting up walls, but your guess is as good as mine.”
“I think she’s saying I’m putting up walls, but your guess is as good as mine.”
packing heat

The Resistible Rise of Jen Rubio The co-founder of Away luggage is on the fast track to Bezosian ubiquity—but can she escape her baggage?

By Ashley Baker
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Buttering the Croisette

The Cannes Film Festival Is Dead. Long Live Cannes Lions! Stars used to go to Cannes to sell movies—now they go to sell themselves

By Alyson Krueger
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Air Supply

All Fairways Lead to Excess

A golf edit for those who treat the tournament as an occasion and the occasion as a lifestyle
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Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images (Kennedy)
Guest Edit

Ben Talley Smith’s Favorite Things The man behind Khaite, Reformation, and Madewell’s most coveted denim—and a new line of one-of-one vintage bags—shares his taste for Gallery Dept. hoodies, Bob Dylan, and the perfect pair of A.P.C. jeans

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Push Comes to Shove

The Patrick Bateman of London? In 2017, a jogger in a fashionable neighborhood shoved a woman into the path of an oncoming bus. The suspect, arrested this week, is reportedly a private banker with ties to the House of Windsor

By Diana Fox
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Notes on an Aesthetic

The Nine Ways People Are Impossible The Enneagram promises self-knowledge. But its best use is to help you survive dinner parties—and buy gifts for difficult people

By Jennifer Noyes
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Best
dine N/Soto N/Naka—Niki Nakayama and Carole Iida-Nakayama’s one-Michelin-star kaiseki temple in Culver City, California—is among the most… read Lunch on a Beam Whether or not you’re afraid of heights, I am certain you shivered a bit when you first saw the famed black-and-white photograph… watch Pauline at the Beach The third film in director Éric Rohmer’s series Comedies and Proverbs, Pauline at the Beach explores the emotions… snooze Loftie Of all the ways in which smartphones have insidiously infected our lives, surely it’s their presence in the bedroom that ranks among the… read The Dud Avocado Summer technically starts this weekend—and I know exactly who I’m emulating this year: Sally Jay Gorce, the protagonist of the… renovate Studio McGee x Kohler If you’ve ever searched kitchens on Pinterest and then briefly considered a full renovation before bedtime, Studio McGee… dine N/Soto N/Naka—Niki Nakayama and Carole Iida-Nakayama’s one-Michelin-star kaiseki temple in Culver City, California—is among the most… read Lunch on a Beam Whether or not you’re afraid of heights, I am certain you shivered a bit when you first saw the famed black-and-white photograph… watch Pauline at the Beach The third film in director Éric Rohmer’s series Comedies and Proverbs, Pauline at the Beach explores the emotions… snooze Loftie Of all the ways in which smartphones have insidiously infected our lives, surely it’s their presence in the bedroom that ranks among the… read The Dud Avocado Summer technically starts this weekend—and I know exactly who I’m emulating this year: Sally Jay Gorce, the protagonist of the… renovate Studio McGee x Kohler If you’ve ever searched kitchens on Pinterest and then briefly considered a full renovation before bedtime, Studio McGee…
An Artist’s Life

Dancing with Light In his Paris studio—and in time for a sweeping new retrospective in Spain—Paolo Roversi, the photographer of Rei Kawakubo, Kate Moss, and Stella Tennant, reflects on a lifetime of looking

By Elena Clavarino
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Lost and Found

These Boots Were Made for Walking In an excerpt from Too L.A., Lili Anolik’s new collection of the novelist’s letters, Eve Babitz unleashes a fiery tirade against an unidentified boyfriend who dared to insult her shoes

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Books

The AIR MAIL Summer Reading List From Ann Patchett’s tender tale of reconciliation to Jenny Jackson’s juicy seaside romp, here are the 10 books our editors are taking with them on their travels this summer

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Close-up

George McNally The 22-year-old dishes on getting kicked out of school in London; learning the hospitality business from his father, Balthazar founder Keith McNally; and Faux, his upcoming Tribeca restaurant

By Jeanne Malle
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Travel

Hydra’s Secret Salon On a car-free Greek island where donkeys still carry the luggage, a Czech-Austrian aristocrat has turned an 18th-century sea captain’s house into a recording studio—and the art world’s favorite post–Art Basel party

By Josh Hickey
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Around the World in Culture
In London
One of the first exhibitions since Georg Baselitz’s death pays tribute to the postwar artist’s wife and muse, Elke Kretzschmar… On HBO
House of the Dragon, the Game of Thrones prequel, returns for a third season as the Targaryen civil war comes to a head… In Basel
Helen Frankenthaler receives her largest European exhibition, and her first institutional show in Switzerland, just in time for Art Basel… In New York
Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Herman’s 1983 musical La Cage aux Folles returns to Broadway with an all-Black cast led by Billy Porter… In Chicago
A new museum, library, and education project commemorating Barack Obama’s presidency has opened its doors on the South Side of the city… On Netflix
Britt Lower joins Sam Worthington in a series about a father who is wrongly accused of murdering his son before learning he may be alive…
Small Talk
“Part of me loves living in the city, and part of me gravitates to a little place in the country.”
“Part of me loves living in the city, and part of me gravitates to a little place in the country.”
Highlight
As Seen Below, by James Turrell, photographed during “Color Shift” mode, when the room’s hue changes every other hour.

The Sky’s the Limit

In 1974, shortly after he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, James Turrell spent seven months crisscrossing the vast Arizona desert in a small plane, searching for a place to construct the most ambitious artwork of modern times. READ ON

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Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook
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