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Silly Love Songs An A.I. music generator that will come up with the track of your dreams! A sensor that detects wildfires before it’s too late! A vacuum that will help you sleep better! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

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A Life in Film

What’s with Woody? An open letter

By Sam Wasson

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Pot Heads and Basket Cases The Loewe Foundation’s Craft Prize brings together the best practitioners of the decorative arts from across the globe

By Ashley Baker

Swan Song

The Diva’s Tragedy Maria Callas’s life was marked by poverty, drugs, cheating billionaires, and tabloid uproar. Can Angelina Jolie, who plays the opera singer in a new biopic, find the humanity amid the chaos?

By Lyndsy Spence

Charlotte Colbert The multi-media artist’s Alice in Wonderland–inspired exhibition brings a trippy perspective to Frieze London

By Bridget Arsenault

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Who Wears the Crown? There’s something empowering and regal about my hair. Here’s how I created it

By Nelly Moudime

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Rule of Three Spare yourself the embarrassment of bare feet! Get your act together by staying in a hotel! And much more, in our new column on how to live …

By George Hahn

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Talkin’ Like Connie Converse

By Joanne Kaufman

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Terroir Terror A former sommelier at a four-star New York City restaurant recalls a harrowing sexual assault she experienced behind the scenes of the fine-dining world

By Hannah Selinger

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Natasha Rothwell The White Lotus star shares her least favorite things

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Valley of the Books Located inside a family’s Brooklyn home, High Valley Books offers the best collection of rare and vintage print media in the city

By Zach Sokol

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The Perfect Ending

Olivia von Halle The fashion designer answers 35 of life’s most pressing questions

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Survivor, D.C. Edition The new genre of books taking over Washington? Memoirs by Trump-administration survivors who tried to do their work in the midst of insanity

By Michael Oreskes

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The View from Here A lot has been written about Trump’s second term. Kathy Hochul summed it up with a single barnyard epithet

By Jamie Malanowski

Positively Fourth and Mercer

By George Kalogerakis

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The Attention-Whore Index There are puerile billionaires and whining authors scrabbling for your attention. But can any of them beat the orange elephant in the room? You decide!

By George Kalogerakis

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Yoko Before John To understand the most misunderstood woman of the last half-century, you have to go back to the beginning

By Legs McNeil

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Turning over a New Leaf A New York City landscaper shares her advice for bringing plants into the home, including where to shop, what to avoid, and which varietals can endure a bit of neglect

By Jensen Davis

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Lolita Cros’s Guide to New York The French curator and art dealer shares her favorite art galleries in her hometown

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Eye of the Beholder Whether you’re the president or Taylor Swift, your mouth is a conversation topic—and we’re not talking about what comes out of it. But perfectly aligned, blindingly white teeth are no longer the gold standard, reports our beauty-and-wellness columnist

By Linda Wells

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Risky Business Israel proved its military can assassinate anyone, anywhere. But will those killings keep the peace or spark a larger war?

By Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv

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Breaking the Sound Barrier

The Rest Is Podcasting Is there anything that former soccer star, now podcaster and media mogul, Gary Lineker can’t do?

By Jonathan Margolis

After Hours

A Night Celebrating Gay Talese Judy Collins, Tony Danza, David Remnick, and others gathered at the Waverly Inn to celebrate the writer’s new memoir

By Nathan King

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Asher Liftin The 24-year-old art-world darling, whose fans include David Geffen, stages his first solo show in New York City

By Clara Molot

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? This week in American health: Tylenol-gate, more vaccine-mania, and A.I. Christopher Hitchens lambastes R.F.K. Jr.

By Paulina Prosnitz and Carolina de Armas

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