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High Life, Low Life In his new book, the photographer Dafydd Jones captures a bygone New York, an era of new and old money, La Grenouille and Le Cirque

By Graydon Carter

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Art

Making Banksy A new book compiles graffiti by the elusive street artist, from the 1990s to today

By Elena Clavarino

sobering news

Good to the Last Drop Is it possible to drink to your health anymore? The science and new guidelines about alcohol might change your mind

By Ashley Baker

But First …

The View from Here As the once great Sports Illustrated withers, a former editor reflects on the profligate larks and obtuse decisions that reduced Time Inc. to a punch line

By Mike Lafavore

Thomas Keller The chef and owner of the French Laundry chooses a few of his least favorite things

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Nar(s)issist Watch

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Murder, They Wrote Tragic beauties dominate this month’s best mystery novels—as well as a 1946 noir classic

By Lisa Henricksson

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The View from Here Oligarchs such as Boris Berezovsky thought they’d created a post-Soviet puppet, but Putin outgrew his wealthy mentors and then destroyed them

By Peter Osnos

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Practice Makos Perfect Christopher Makos showed Andy Warhol how to use his first camera. He also cemented Warhol’s existence as the personification of the “American brand”

By Elena Clavarino

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Happy Clothes WATCH

By Jeanne Malle

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America Slides Backward The most divisive of cultural issues gets tangled in a rightward leaning Supreme Court

By Marina Hyde

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Close-up

Catherine Lacey The author discusses her latest novel, a fictionalized biography of a “Frankenstein’s monster of 20 artists and 20 writers” whom she admires, from Kathy Acker to Susan Sontag

By Rhoda Feng

Best in Show

Picture-Perfect The blockbuster Vermeer show at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum exceeds the hype

By Max Carter

Best

Flamingo Estate Moisturize

By Zoe Ruffner

Paulina Porizkova The model and memoirist answers 21 of life’s most pressing questions

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Frida’s Missing Masterpiece Frida Kahlo’s painting The Wounded Table vanished in 1955. The hunt for it continues

By Paulina Olszanka

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Sex, Drugs, and Anish Kapoor Why did Inigo Philbrick orchestrate an $86 million Ponzi scheme? Well, it depends which day of the week you ask him …

By Joseph Bullmore

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Toast in Boerum Hill VISIT

By Ashley Baker

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Sane, Economy-Class Asian-Americans

By Pico Iyer

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Eye of the Beholder Aging: It’s all relative, right? For those who are trudging into 2023 feeling like the past few years have weighed heavily on their faces, help is here, without a single trip to the plastic surgeon. It will, however, require a bus ride …

By Linda Wells

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Beating Putin’s Propaganda Alex Goldfarb was falsely accused by Russian state media of poisoning his friend Alexander Litvinenko. His long fight for truth finally ended this week

By Alex Goldfarb

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Highlight

Shock and Awe The provocative, World War II–era paintings of Ben Shahn are on view in a sweeping retrospective

By Nicholas Fox Weber

Listen

Anna Wintour The Vogue editor isn’t typically a lady who lunches. But on this week’s Table for Two, she makes an exception for host Bruce Bozzi

The Perfect Ending

Presley Gerber The investor and model answers 37 of life’s most pressing questions

Dream Time Alfresco Way above 96th Street, Shakespeare’s midsummer madness in classical Harlem Renaissance style

By Matthew Gurewitsch

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