New York
Open Book
Mad About the Girl A new coffee-table book collects the photographer Sam Shaw’s never-before-seen pictures of his longtime friend and muse, Marilyn Monroe
The Real Deal
Diary of a Southern Grande Dame Patricia Altschul—the richer-than-God, twice-divorced Charleston matriarch who inspired Parker Posey’s White Lotus character—tells all on her run-ins with royals, Trump, and America’s gilded circles
Food and Wine
The Last Front-of-House Man For five decades, Ken Aretsky has defied New York restaurant odds by making charm, simplicity, and elegance the first orders of business
packing heat
The Resistible Rise of Jen Rubio The co-founder of Away luggage is on the fast track to Bezosian ubiquity—but can she escape her baggage?
Air Mail Diary
A Truly Fresh Hell, Courtesy of Dorothy Parker And other strange news about these curious days …
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
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
The Imperfect Ending
Thomas Keller The chef and owner of the French Laundry chooses a few of his least favorite things
Object of Desire
Ana Khouri’s Flower Power Ahead of the European Fine Art Foundation fair at the Park Avenue Armory, the jewelry designer talks shop
