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Setsuko Klossowska de Rola’s Guide to Paris The Japanese painter and widow of the 20th-century painter Balthus shares her favorite spots in her adopted city

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Clarion Top Notes, Plus His Head on a Cake Stand Elza van den Heever, the Met’s new Salome, delivers the whole package

The Perfect Ending

Rita Konig The interior designer answers 40 of life’s most pressing questions


Online Special

Getting It Right For the British playwright Alan Bennett, other people’s lives are just the dress rehearsal

Landing Gear

Voices from the Past A recording device that will fill in the gaps in your memory! Google’s A.I. summary tool is unlike anything you’ve ever seen! The charging station that will change your life! And more …

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The Criminal Element

Château LaThief An intoxicating investment opportunity collateralized with extraordinarily valuable bottles of fine wine … What could possibly go wrong?

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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

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Wedding Crasher

Nuptials of the Rich and Famous Things are a little different at celebrity weddings. There are certain rules

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Donald Trump is guilty as hell, Richard Dreyfuss loves a good yell, and you don’t want Martha-Ann Alito ringing your doorbell. Plus, the strangest news from around the world

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Literary Classics

Loos Woman The novelist who beat F. Scott Fitzgerald at his own game

Film

Candid Camera Lawrence Osborne reveals the inspiration behind his novel The Forgiven, whose screen adaptation premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival next week


Books

Stand-up Women

The Perfect Ending

Charlotte Rey The artist and half of the design firm Campbell-Rey answers 48 of life’s most pressing questions

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Close-up

Jean-Pierre Villafañe The Puerto Rican artist’s bacchanalian paintings of New Yorkers go on view at the Armory Show

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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

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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

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Modern Times

The Rise of the Chefluencer TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube stars whose recipes have been viewed billions of times online are translating followings into real-life storefronts. But is the food any good?

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The Family Jewels The Victoria and Albert Museum is paying tribute to Cartier with a glittering new show. Jacques Cartier’s great-granddaughter walks us through it

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Top Models

By the Board Melbourne-based filmmaker and artist Daniel Agdag’s medium of choice is cardboard, and his sculptures are sure to shock and delight

Adventures in Publishing

The Weidenfeld Way A new biography tells the story of the famed publisher George Weidenfeld, of London’s Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an uproarious character who stood at the meeting point of the literary and society worlds


View With a Room

So Much More than Lobster At Aragosta, on Deer Isle, Maine, a heavenly restaurant, cottages with seaside views, and hikes in lush greenery offer a slice of Arcadia

Theater

Time in a Bottle Brian d’Arcy James channels Jack Lemmon in the new musical Days of Wine and Roses

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