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After Hours

A Night to Remember with Salman Rushdie Gay Talese, Lisa Taddeo, Marlon James, Tony Danza, and others gathered at the Waverly Inn for a rousing book party in celebration of the writer’s new memoir

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Wall Street Woes

Two Turntables and the Goldman Sachs Revolt While their C.E.O. is D.J.-ing at Lollapalooza, Gen Z bankers are rebelling against a return-to-office order

Suite Smell of Success

The Secret Life of Hotels Before doing the Madeline children’s books and the murals for New York’s Carlyle-hotel bar, Ludwig Bemelmans worked at the Ritz—and kept notes


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Sidney Garber SPARKLE

Comedic Relief

Hollywood’s Conundrum What will happen to the new World War II films as war rages in the Middle East?

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Elon Musk is failing, Donald Trump is flailing, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is whaling

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Party Hopping

Sunglasses After Dark A guided tour of CBGB, the Mudd Club, Tunnel, and downtown’s other lost nightlife haunts

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Stranding Out!

Bounce with Me How do some New York women achieve such incredibly lush, shiny, healthy-looking hair? One new arrival steals their secrets

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Style

When Savile Row Met Carnaby Street Tommy Nutter clothed the Beatles and just about every other member of “Swinging London”

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Culture

The 96-Year Itch At 96, Marilyn Stafford, the masterful yet little-known photographer who shot everyone from Albert Einstein to Sharon Tate and everything from political unrest to war, gets her due

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Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of Underground Comix Read


Kiss and Makeup

Ultra Violet As the fairy-tale life of Violet Grey founder Cassandra Grey enters its next chapter, her business goes back on the block

Arts and Letters

High Definition An exhibition of rare dictionaries includes volumes by Samuel Johnson and J. R. R. Tolkien

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Inside Story

The Dorothy Parker Tapes A biographer of the great 20th-century wit goes in search of 12 hours’ worth of lost recordings made by Gloria Vanderbilt’s husband Wyatt Cooper

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Lights Out!

Getting into Bed with Bridget Everett The actress and cabaret performer shares her nighttime routine

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A Touch of Smut Wayne Koestenbaum has been writing seriously salacious poetry for decades. A new collection about New York and its denizens gets down and dirty

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The Perfect Ending

Tony Danza The boxer, actor, and now cabaret star answers 72 of life’s most pressing questions

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Staff Picks Don’t miss a reflection on the state of journalism, a memoir from a former Metropolitan Museum of Art security guard, and the story of a molecular biologist’s fight against sexism

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Where Poetry Comes to Die Annie Clark, the alternative singer and three-time Grammy winner known as St. Vincent, performs her first self-produced album, All Born Screaming, on her international tour

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Inside Story

The Shock of the Old An exhibition of 28 nearly 400-year-old paintings was the global cultural event of 2023. Why?

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The View from Here An eight-hour trek through the Mexican wilderness in a drug dealer’s back seat, $1,000 beach-buggy rides … the lengths to which the young 1 percent will go for a party know no bounds


The Art of Scandal

Bait and Switch Impersonating a Mexican mogul was just the tip of the iceberg for Alberto Fis, a young art-and-sushi aficionado whose Manhattan omakase restaurant disguised a vast web of Inigo Philbrick–style fraud

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The Hidden Highsmith A new documentary about the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley delves into the writer’s love life

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