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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

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The Seasoned Traveler

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

Photography

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


Art

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

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

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Abiding Mystery

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

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Close-up

Eugeniu Zubco On the 37th floor of a Fifth Avenue tower, the 31-year-old Moldovan sushi chef and Masa alum is leading Manhattan’s most exclusive new omakase counter

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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

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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

But First …

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”

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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God’s Gourmands

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

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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 …

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