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Stranger Things Is Happening

In London, obsessive fans of the show can now live in Hawkins, Indiana—and follow in the steps of Mike, Dustin, and the gang

Imperial Japan’s Last Casualty

General Shiba Goro did not fight in World War II, but he chose to die for it

The Calm Before the Storm

A letter from Hong Kong

The Blinder Side

The author of Moneyball and Liar’s Poker wants to take on climate change, but cannot find the right antihero to champion

Village Idiot

A dot-com entrepreneur is reviled as he tries to restore his ancestral village in Devon in the style of Silicon Valley

Sisters in Arms

Why are young British women volunteering to fight and die alongside the Kurds?

Outsourcing the Holidays

Why go to the trouble of decorating when these enterprising entrepreneurs will handle the heavy lifting?

Impostor Syndrome

German businessman who posed as an anti-Nazi martyr was actually a Hitler loyalist and wartime profiteer

The Sex App

Ferly, the digital platform that tells you everything you wanted to know about libido and “self-pleasure”

Last Call

In his new venture, Exit Here, Oliver Peyton brings his velvet-rope, nightlife-impresario approach to the funeral business

Why Do Rich People Love to Shoplift?

A week before he was busted for petty larceny at Kmart, a man had paid $8 million for an island in the Florida Keys

“What Ho, Sergei!”

Rich Russian family advertises for a butler who can shimmer like Jeeves

Unbuild the Wall

The night they drove old Deutschland down

Speak, Memory. Faster!

Are you smart enough to compete in the European Quizzing Championships?

Marking Their Territory

Thanks to the tech crowd, San Francisco is now home to more dogs than children—and the city is forever changed

The #MeToo Minefield

In The Problem with Everything, Meghan Daum finds herself caught in the middle of the culture wars

Hiding in Plain Sight

A trove of Hitler artifacts in Argentina shows just how many Nazis escaped justice after the war

The Playing Fields of Money

The Swiss school that charges around $130,000 a year to raise the future global elite

Me and My Shadow

Lost without the Instagram Following tab

From Russia with Something Other than Love

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once his nation’s richest man, spent a decade in a Siberian prison. Still, he has a great laugh

Boris Johnson’s Ishtar

The British prime minister’s hitherto undiscovered and very un-woke movie treatment

She Worked Hard for His Money

Will Boris Johnson’s relationship with a pole-dancing American model who appeared in Naughty @ 40 lead him to prison?

Dirndl Power

Behind the beer-soaked scenes at the corporate-networking extravaganza known as Oktoberfest

My Month of Rest and Relaxation

In Asia’s posh postpartum hotels, new mothers are pampered while newborns are sequestered in the nursery