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Open Book
Flower Power A Dior designer’s take on floral arrangements, a visual history of the rose, and a gardening guide by Martha Stewart … Ring in spring with three new coffee-table books
Open Book
Hip-Hop and Happening Three new coffee-table books celebrate hip-hop—which originated in New York’s South Bronx 50 years ago—as a musical genre and cultural movement
T.G.I.S.
The Attention-Whore Index Elon Musk spats with a warlord, Donald Trump struggles with a gender, and Mark Robinson swears he’s not what he said he is on a porn site
The Criminal Element
Château LaThief An intoxicating investment opportunity collateralized with extraordinarily valuable bottles of fine wine … What could possibly go wrong?
But First …
The View from Here Harvard’s sanctioning of two Rhodes Scholarship recipients is only the latest in a series of controversies plaguing the prestigious academic prize
Wedding Crasher
Nuptials of the Rich and Famous Things are a little different at celebrity weddings. There are certain rules
Close-up
Jean-Pierre Villafañe The Puerto Rican artist’s bacchanalian paintings of New Yorkers go on view at the Armory Show
Past is Prologue
A Tendency to Court Disaster Peter Matthiessen aspired to write the Great American Novel. His son Lucas’s posthumous memoir reads like Greek tragedy
Books
All That Is Solid Melts into Theory How did a once obscure academic notion called “gender identity” triumph over material reality? Credit—or blame—Judith Butler
