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Samuel D. Hunter Darren Aronofsky adapted Hunter’s play The Whale for the screen. The playwright’s latest project, A Bright New Boise, premieres Off-Broadway next week

By Rhoda Feng

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Man Trouble

Beam Me Up! More men are submitting their skin to the strongest lasers. Here’s what it’s really like

By George Hahn

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Fernando Casablancas The model and artist makes his TV debut in a reality show about downtown Manhattan’s creative class

By Elena Clavarino

You Can’t Touch This Sensitive skin is often worn like a badge of honor, but what does it actually mean?

By Danielle Cohen

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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

By Elena Clavarino

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Liz Caribel Sierra The 27-year-old actress is bringing Dominican culture to the screen in Zoë Kravitz’s Blink Twice and Ridley Scott’s Dope Thief

By Paulina Prosnitz

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

By John Lahr

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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

By Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey

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Jōji Box

By Merritt Johnson

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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

By Steve Martin

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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

By Christopher Mason

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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

By Bruce Feirstein

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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 …

By Jonathan Margolis

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

By Judith Newman

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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

By Ivana Lowell

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Sunday Matinee

By Carolina de Armas

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Hurts So Good

By Ashley Baker

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Elon Musk’s World Wide Web

By Julia Vitale

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

By Steve Garbarino

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Pour Me Another A surge of investment in hotels, restaurants, and distilleries is remaking upstate New York in the image of Napa Valley

By Christine Muhlke

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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

By George Kalogerakis

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

By Tatiana Boncompagni Hoover

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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

By Graham Fuller

Karyn Lyons: “The Trespasser and Other Tales”

By Laura Neilson

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