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Avedon, Associated A new book explores the relationships, both in front of and behind the lens, that were most formative for the groundbreaking photographer Richard Avedon

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West End Story

Solid Sender A new immersive production of Guys and Dolls in London is an all-around delight

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The Legacy of the “Preppy Killer” On this week’s podcast, Cynthia Weiner discusses the shocking murder that riveted New York City in the 80s


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Pop Goes the Lichtenstein The actor, writer, musician, director, and comedian (running out of space!) Steve Martin remembers his friend Roy Lichtenstein, the Pop-art master whose centenary is being honored with an exhibition curated by Irving Blum

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The Hostess

Sight Unseen Alice Mason was a celebrated hostess and New York’s real-estate agent to the elite, but while she was showing lavish apartments to clients like Marilyn Monroe, she was hiding a family secret

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Small Talk

Josh Hawley Is Writing to Remind You He’s Not a Total Pussy The scurrying senator from the Show-Me State has a big, manly-man book in the works

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Landing Gear

Love All A tennis ball that doubles as a speaker! One device to rule the whole family! The best way to keep your cool! And more …

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Knives Out!

Family Plan Plastic surgeons are operating on their wives, mothers, daughters, sons—and parading them as their best advertisement

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Great Lives

A Publisher and a Gentleman Jason Epstein, a co-founder of The New York Review of Books, always seemed to know everything—and be everywhere

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Small Talk

Elon Musk’s World Wide Web


Artist in Residence

Estates of Confusion A new book celebrates the madcap magic of artist Hunt Slonem’s homes

T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index New Jersey is to corruption as Elon Musk is to reproduction. Plus, all the strangest news from around the world

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Knives Out!

The Revenge Face The latest divorce trend involves a visit to the plastic surgeon

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Close-up

Renate Reinsve The actress stars in Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World, Norway’s Oscar submission, which just earned a place on the Best International Feature Film short list

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Off Piste

Postcard New England The early days of skiing in the United States were wild and woolly, with rope tows, aristocratic instructors, and five-to-a-room boarding houses

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Air Males

Sexist Pigs Might Fly For a brief moment in the mid–20th century, men-only flights—with complimentary cocktails and cigars—took to the skies

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East End Story

Hamptons Agonistes When the starry New York club Zero Bond tried to lease a historic inn in tony East Hampton, battle lines were swiftly drawn in the well-groomed sand

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A Face in the Crowd

True Detective He’s everywhere in photos—the charismatic private eye who escorts Sam Bankman-Fried to court dates. Past clients include Ghislaine Maxwell and John Gotti Jr.

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The View from Here Blocking traffic. Throwing soup at the Mona Lisa. Lighting oneself on fire. Radical acts of protest are guaranteed to make headlines. But do they work?


Open Book

The Draper Touch The 20th-century decorator Dorothy Draper transformed the interiors of Manhattan’s Carlyle hotel, West Virginia’s Greenbrier, and more with her signature Hollywood Regency style

Publish and Perish

Swan Song Truman Capote’s social suicide by novel: the story behind the new mini-series Feud: Capote vs. the Swans

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