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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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Books

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


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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

Open Book

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”

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Online Special

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

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The Great Divide

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

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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

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Best in Show

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

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The Perfect Ending

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

Art-World Rarities

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


The Criminal Element

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 …

Flights of Fancy

The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Pan Am The brand that pioneered the golden age of flying is staging a comeback—but can it exist in the cost-cutting world of international travel today?

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Beauty and Wellness

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 …

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Anatomy of a Murder

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

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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

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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

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The Perfect Ending

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

Highlight

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


Food

When Life Gives You Lemons … French pastry chef Cédric Grolet’s lemon trompe l’oeil dessert is having a moment on menus around the world

Minuscule Series

Cliff-Hangers for the Commute One-minute micro-dramas—designed to be watched on your smartphone—are now a billion-dollar industry

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