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The View from Here One year ago, Thomas Matthew Crooks shot and almost killed Donald Trump. Why do we know so little about him?

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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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Society

Fancy Feast Does your cocktail party lack heft and grandeur? Enter the dînatoire, an entertaining trend that’s sweeping New York

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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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Social Studies

Breaking the Wellness Cycle Is our addiction to wellness making us fitter and healthier, or just a little more crazy?

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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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The Garbo Modigliani


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

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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

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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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Living

Good Things in Small Packages Our essential guide to unmissable kids’ boutiques, from the Tuileries to Shoreditch to Brooklyn

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Elements of Style

The Pleasure Is All Hers As a designer, author, and curator, Betony Vernon elevates the fine art of seduction

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High Times

Where the Magic Really Happens The Goop-ification of magic mushrooms swept a remarkable origin story under the rug of big business. But the tiny Oaxacan retreat where it all began hasn’t gone anywhere

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Crime and Punishment

The Man in the Lineup: Part IV Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in jail for a rape he didn’t commit. Nearly 40 years later comes a precisely calculated payback

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Bashar al-Assad flees, Juan Soto increases his fees, and the Trump nominees continue to displease

Design for Living

Rule of Three Go from shoddy to well shod with a pair of adult shoes! Spend an evening at the movies (but not in a multiplex)! And more, in our column on how to live …


Photography

Joel Meyerowitz’s Life in Photography One of the pioneers of color photography looks back on his six-decade career in a new book

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Strangers in the Night Spin Cycle, a one-act play about two people crossing paths at a laundromat, premieres in New York

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