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The View from Here Have we reached Peak Beatles?

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An Heir of Defiance A quarter-billion-dollar fortune helped Fergie Chambers pursue his revolutionary ambitions. Now he’s in a Spanish prison, fighting to keep the country he loathes from bringing him home

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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may be a public disgrace—but England’s aristocrats won’t let that spoil their supper plans

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Welcome to SlutCon For the techies engineering our future, talking to actual women can be a daunting prospect. Fortunately, there’s a conference for that

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“He Told Me I Couldn’t Act!” Michael Douglas on working with Oliver Stone, what’s missing in Hollywood today, and that scene in Fatal Attraction

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Air Supply

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Pom Harrington’s Favorite Things Having spent a lifetime handling the world’s most remarkable books, the adviser and collector now makes a living finding extraordinary editions for others. Here, what he wants for himself

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cook H Mart: The Cookbook As beloved supermarkets go, H Mart is pretty much at the top of the list for many of us. From its start in 1982… watch Diabolique Alfred Hitchcock wanted to buy the rights to Boileau-Narcejac’s 1952 French noir crime novel, Celle Qui N’Était Plus (The Woman… dine Barbour x Dean’s Barbour has taken over Dean’s, the new British joint on Sixth Avenue and West Houston, from October 10 through 14, giving the place… read The Couple With The Pitchfork Surely Grant Wood had no idea in 1930, when he painted a man holding a pitchfork standing next to… buy Welcome to Fun City As the streamers get more consolidated and their film selections get worse—last year, 1973’s The Sting was the oldest available movie… listen Awesome Etiquette Is there a proper way to deal with a peel when serving fruit at dinner? According to Emily Post’s great-great-grandchildren: yes… cook H Mart: The Cookbook As beloved supermarkets go, H Mart is pretty much at the top of the list for many of us. From its start in 1982… watch Diabolique Alfred Hitchcock wanted to buy the rights to Boileau-Narcejac’s 1952 French noir crime novel, Celle Qui N’Était Plus (The Woman… dine Barbour x Dean’s Barbour has taken over Dean’s, the new British joint on Sixth Avenue and West Houston, from October 10 through 14, giving the place… read The Couple With The Pitchfork Surely Grant Wood had no idea in 1930, when he painted a man holding a pitchfork standing next to… buy Welcome to Fun City As the streamers get more consolidated and their film selections get worse—last year, 1973’s The Sting was the oldest available movie… listen Awesome Etiquette Is there a proper way to deal with a peel when serving fruit at dinner? According to Emily Post’s great-great-grandchildren: yes…

Letters from Scamelot In her newest party report, Caroline Calloway loses two guys in seven days, survives a drunken gardening accident, and limps her way into a Strokes after-party

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The Mounjaro Con They lie about their weight, their height, and their medical condition, sometimes using A.I. to alter their photos—anything it takes to get the shot

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Against Your Better Judgment On the joy of receiving something you could never quite justify buying for yourself

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Glacier Bay, Alaska, by Charley Harper, circa 1976.

The Cincinnati Kid

On a tour of Cincinnati, the novelist John Updike wondered why the city hadn’t erected a statue to America’s sweetheart Doris Day, a native daughter who lit up Hollywood for decades with her Pepsodent smile and plucky vivacity. A regrettable oversight, in Updike’s estimation. When it comes to the prolific, nonpareil nature artist Charley Harper, no one visiting the Queen City today could lodge such a complaint. READ ON


Candidly Speaking As Richard Avedon takes center stage in a new book, exhibition, and documentary this fall, two longtime aficionados discuss why his images still loom so large

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by Emmanuel Carrère
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Around the World in Culture

The Somerset Cure A former Daily Mail editor and his Texan wife have turned an 18th-century Gothic rectory into a wellness-focused country-house escape—complete with ice baths, blood analysis, and a gong

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In Memoriam

Peter Bogdanovich Milton Esterow Duncan Hannah Jane Larkworthy Douglas McGrath Richard David Story André Leon Talley David Yaffe

Issue No. 378
October 10, 2026
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Issue No. 378
October 10, 2026

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