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Issue No. 370

The View from Here The comedian Lenny Bruce, who died 60 years ago this month, was a fearless champion of free speech. Today, he would have less to fear from the police—and more from the audience

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The Bullet-Riddled Rise of Tatyana Kim Until Ukraine began bombing her warehouses, the billionaire e-commerce C.E.O. kept a very low profile. But the real backstory of Russia’s richest woman belies her wholesome image

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Flacking for the Tate Brothers Facing charges of human trafficking and rape, the manosphere’s most notorious siblings hired their lawyer’s cousin to stage an image makeover. Can you blame a girl for trying?

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The Outsourced In Crowd Private clubs are turning to Contra for beautiful, influential partygoers on demand. So much for exclusivity

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Mariella and Attilia Avino’s Favorite Things Decades of welcoming guests from around the world have a way of sharpening your eye. These are the pieces the Avino sisters return to again and again

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Cadillac Plugs In, Turns On Despite a “strategic pullback” from electric, America’s original luxury brand is quietly riding a second wave of battery-powered innovation with a $375,000 sedan and a vision beyond Trump’s war on E.V.’s

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Best
read Vermeer’s Afterlives It took 200 years for a little-known Delft painter named Johannes Vermeer to be discovered… watch A Midsummer Night’s Dream Michael Hoffman’s 1999 A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a delightful iteration of Shakespeare’s listen El Encanto de Los Mirlos One of Peru’s most prolific bands, Los Mirlos celebrate every facet of their identity and sound on 1986’s… shop Sagaponack General Store If you just so happen to be out East for the dregs of summer and can’t bring yourself to show up to another… read I Who Have Never Known Men In a bookstore last weekend, I was approached not once but twice by shopgoers urging me to purchase… travel Welcome Wings Traveling to Greece last summer was a dreamlike trance of crystal-clear waters, skinny European cigarettes, and endless tzatziki… read Vermeer’s Afterlives It took 200 years for a little-known Delft painter named Johannes Vermeer to be discovered… watch A Midsummer Night’s Dream Michael Hoffman’s 1999 A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a delightful iteration of Shakespeare’s listen El Encanto de Los Mirlos One of Peru’s most prolific bands, Los Mirlos celebrate every facet of their identity and sound on 1986’s… shop Sagaponack General Store If you just so happen to be out East for the dregs of summer and can’t bring yourself to show up to another… read I Who Have Never Known Men In a bookstore last weekend, I was approached not once but twice by shopgoers urging me to purchase… travel Welcome Wings Traveling to Greece last summer was a dreamlike trance of crystal-clear waters, skinny European cigarettes, and endless tzatziki…

The Old Faithful Wardrobe necessities that make re-entry into adult life considerably less painful

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Carb Your Enthusiasm How the humble croissant became supersized and super-hyped

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Around the World in Culture
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The Breakup

by Kurt Andersen
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Beach Culture, Italian-Style From the historic Lido of Venice to Le Sirenuse Mare, a tour of Italy’s most awe-inspiring stabilimenti in time for Ferragosto

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Open Book

Harry Gruyaert in Color A new coffee-table book collects the Belgian photographer’s saturated, unabashed pictures of New York, taken over 52 years of trips to the city


Ray’s Anatomy An exhibition in Kassel, Germany, examines the frank, sometimes transgressive sculptures of the contemporary American artist Charles Ray

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Issue No. 370
August 15, 2026
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Issue No. 370
August 15, 2026

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