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Japan’s Moment in the Sun From the thriving food scene to the vintage shopping to the manicured aesthetic—not to mention the weak yen—Japan is having a moment

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Desert’s Islands With lush gardens, atmospheric fountains, and well-appointed rooms, the Chedi hotels in Sharjah and Oman both surprise and delight


Jason Isaacs’ Favorite Things The White Lotus actor answers 65 of life’s most pressing questions

Up Close With Emma Myers How the Orlando native went from acting in theme-park commercials to starring alongside Jason Momoa, Jennifer Coolidge, and Jack Black

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One Hundred Years of Gatsby Editions of The Great Gatsby—which achieved popularity only after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s death—abound, but the mysteries surrounding the Great American Novel endure

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Flower Power A Dior designer’s take on floral arrangements, a visual history of the rose, and a gardening guide by Martha Stewart … Ring in spring with three new coffee-table books

Positively 4th Street When New York was still called New Amsterdam, a former slave ran a farm on the very terrain that would become the Greenwich Village stomping ground of folk singers and Beat poets


Out of Africa Peter Godwin’s fourth memoir focuses on his mother, who refused to leave a continually ravaged Zimbabwe until she was nearly 80

Stephen Sondheim’s Phantom Menace As a new Sondheim revue opens on Broadway, producer Cameron Mackintosh reflects on their friendship—and on Sondheim’s rivalry with Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Daytona Williams’s Favorite Things What’s caught the eye of the editor of independent interiors publication Neptune Papers: a Matthew Foster casserole dish, a Jil Sander blanket, Uno cards, and more

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Bare Facebook Liar Mark Zuckerberg has killed Meta’s fact-checking program, accusing it of political bias. One former fact-checker can’t believe it

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