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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
The Great Divide
America Slides Backward The most divisive of cultural issues gets tangled in a rightward leaning Supreme Court
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
Best in Show
Picture-Perfect The blockbuster Vermeer show at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum exceeds the hype
