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From Golden Spoons to Golden Statues Contessa Marina Cicogna’s storybook life is as vibrant as those in the films she produced

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Close-up

Christophe Pourny The French furniture restorer who’s bringing vintage classics—along with hand-mixed furniture tonics and the perfect charentaise slipper—to Brooklyn

Books

From Slush Pile to Pulitzer Joshua Cohen couldn’t find a publisher for his novel about Harold Bloom and the Netanyahus. Now it’s a heralded prizewinner


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Animal Instinct

Great Lives

Dirck Halstead From Saigon’s fall to Reagan’s shooting to Monicagate, the photographer was at the center of history as it happened

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“Ze Spot”

Eat Your Heart Out Since opening their restaurant, in 1999, the couple behind Il Posto Accanto, on East Second Street, has served up linguine and community in equal measure

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Go Figure The Belgian figurative artist Luc Tuymans, who has a new show at David Zwirner, recalls the moment he decided to start painting again—and why he works so fast

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Photography

Let There Be Light The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, exhibits the photographs of 26 avant-garde artists who made light their subject, such as Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Thomas Wilfred, and Mary Ellen Bute

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The Look From Here

What’s the Skinny? Skin slugging, skin cycling, micro-needling, gua sha–ing … skin advice is invading all corners of social media, and one doctor is out to bust some myths

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After Dark

Catch Them if You Can With the news media and social media taking the “hot” out of hot spots, the new New York City nightlife has evolved to be constantly on the move

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Food and Wine

Everything but the Kitchen Sink The chef and restaurateur behind New York’s Lilia, Misi, and Misi Pasta outlines the essential tools for home cooks of every persuasion

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Criminal Intent

Love Is Blind In an exclusive excerpt from the Audible Original Love Until Death, the story of how a successful music producer became ensnared in the web of a seductive con man—and never got out


Beauty and Wellness

Eye of the Beholder Baby got back? There’s yet another area of the body that requires your attention, and professional intervention. Meet the entrepreneurs and surgeons who are focusing exclusively on improving your posterior

Wall Street Woes

Aid and Abet After Charlie Javice sold her financial-planning start-up, Frank, to JPMorgan Chase for $175 million, the wunderkind was poised to be the next big name in fintech. Then came charges of fraud

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Open Book

In Search of Lost Whimsy In a new coffee-table book, the eccentric Italian artist and designer Gaetano Pesce looks back on his life and career, and reflects on his longtime enemy: coherence

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Modern Times

A Starbucks for the Next-Gen Set The fast-growing, tech-bro-funded Blank Street aims to be a younger, cooler version of staid coffee chains. It may have misjudged its customers

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Books

Murder, They Wrote This month’s best mystery books range from murder in Edith Wharton’s New York to the notorious 2003 Alperton Angels cult case

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Small Talk

Hallucinating Graydon Carter Following the publication of When the Going Was Good, A.I.-generated rip-offs have flooded the market—how do they stack up?

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Music Man

The Towering Bobby Short For 36 years there was no more quintessential New York experience than seeing Bobby Short perform at the Café Carlyle

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The Perfect Ending

Rita Wilson The singer-songwriter, actress, and producer answers 35 of life’s most pressing questions

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Chronicles of Disruption

Game Changers As America’s major sports leagues became moneymaking monopolies, a trio of trailblazing organizations—rife with scandal and star power—tried to cut in on the action

Lessons in Controversy

Rebel with a Cause How Philip Weiss went from being “the Dennis Rodman of journalism” to full-time anti-Zionist agitator


Man Trouble

Treasure Chest Looking better naked is going public, with men finding their own interpretation of “free the nipple”

City Guides

Jeffrey Deitch’s Guide to Los Angeles The art dealer shares his favorite up-and-coming galleries in his adopted city

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