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Nick Kroll The force behind Kroll Show and Big Mouth shares his least favorite things

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After Hours

A Night Celebrating Sloane Crosley Salman Rushdie, Griffin Dunne, Naomi Fry, Gary Shteyngart, and others gathered at the Waverly Inn in celebration of the writer’s new memoir

By Jack Sullivan

Fashion-Bro Fest

The Peacock Orthodoxy At the men’s-wear trade show Pitti Uomo, in Florence, fanatics have been turning out in their finest kit since 1972. Can their traditionalist leanings endure the tides of fashion? Well, they already have

By Eugene Rabkin

Air Mail Diary

A Truly Fresh Hell, Courtesy of Dorothy Parker And other strange news about these curious days …

By George Kalogerakis

Churchill’s Angels How a secret W.W. II–era British spy ring fought the Nazis from New York’s Rockefeller Center—and how a female agent almost lost her life in the process

By Thomas Maier

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Daphne Guinness The musician, artist, and fashion fixture reveals her travel routine

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

By Elena Clavarino

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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

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What Happened to the Godfather of Pop Art? How the contents of Larry Rivers’s estate and foundation ended up in a second-tier gallery near New Hope, Pennsylvania

By Roxanne Robinson

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By Spike Carter

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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

The Imperfect Ending

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

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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A Ziegfeld Girl Recalls the Forgotten War After Cosette, Eliza Doolittle, and Sondheim’s Dot, Melissa Errico channels her great aunt Rose

By Matthew Gurewitsch

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Happy Clothes WATCH

By Jeanne Malle

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Religious Nuts From salted peanuts to caffeinated wine to CBD-infused tea, churches, monasteries, and convents create some of the world’s finest gourmet victuals

By Spike Carter

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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

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Flamingo Estate Moisturize

By Zoe Ruffner

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

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