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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

By Rhoda Feng

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Best in Show

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

By Max Carter

Books

A Murder in Minneapolis

By Lisa Henricksson

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Flamingo Estate

By Zoe Ruffner

The Perfect Ending

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

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Art-World Rarities

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

By Paulina Olszanka

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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 …

By Joseph Bullmore

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Toast in Boerum Hill

By Ashley Baker

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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?

By Chris Leadbeater

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Books

Sane, Economy-Class Asian-Americans

By Pico Iyer

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Cleo Camp Four years after sewing her first silver bag from scrap leather, the 28-year-old designer counts Lena Dunham, Zoë Kravitz, and Gracie Abrams among her fans

By Carolina de Armas

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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 …

By Linda Wells

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

By Alex Goldfarb

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Shock and Awe The provocative, World War II–era paintings of Ben Shahn are on view in a sweeping retrospective

By Nicholas Fox Weber

Listen

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

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Highlight

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

By Matthew Gurewitsch

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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

By Nina Friend

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Minuscule Series

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

By Blanca Schofield

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Chuck George The Filipino-American chef is taking the smashburger craze across the Atlantic with Chuck’s

By Elena Clavarino

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Christine Safa For the 32-year-old artist—a rising figure in the Paris art world—memories of Lebanon’s coasts and mountains are never far off

By Nadine Zylberberg

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Patriot Act

Luxury Diplomacy When Trump started spouting conspiracy theories about a white genocide in South Africa, the continent’s richest man stepped in to correct the record

By George Pendle

Chronicles of the .1 Percent

Treasured Island Long overlooked for its flashier neighbors, the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos are having a real-estate renaissance

By Sheila Yasmin Marikar

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Landing Gear

Power Tripping One vinyl record to rule them all! A home generator to keep you juiced up! Headphones you can take on your next scuba expedition! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

Modern Times

Keeping Up with the Gould-Gessens This trio of celebrated Brooklyn writers continues to generate an endless supply of reality-TV-worthy melodrama

By Jessa Crispin

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