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The Attention-Whore Index Will it be a familiar old contemptible or a striking new pretender who claims your attention this week? The decision is yours!

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Letter from Provence

A Splash of Color Wine experts sneered when Sacha Lichine launched his expensive French rosé. Now he sells more than a million cases a year and is beloved by the likes of Victoria Beckham, Malia Obama, and Adele

T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index A warlord, a king, and a short-fingered vulgarian compete for the No. 1 ranking. Which blackguard rules them all? Plus: strange news from across the world


Beauty and Wellness

Eye of the Beholder One of Hollywood’s best-kept secrets? There’s no hair there. Our chronically curious beauty-and-wellness guru investigates the rich universe of extensions, which is making those lush locks possible

Book Excerpt

The Life and Legend of Maggie Higgins She was one of the few female war correspondents assigned to W.W. II and Korea. A new book details Higgins’s intrepid life, both in the field and amid the misogyny of the 20th-century news industry

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Naked and Afraid

Come On In. The Water’s Miserable! Do cold plunges hold the keys to longevity and weight loss? Our brave writer prepares to freeze

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A Real-Life Mrs. Maisel A meticulously kept scrapbook sheds light on the little-remembered life of Jean Carroll, America’s first Jewish woman stand-up comedian

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Scoundrel Time

Disappearing Act The filmmaker behind Made You Look on why 2022 is poised to be the biggest year yet for art forgery and fraud

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Highlight

Open Roads to Candy Mountain In an interview, the actor Kevin J. O’Connor reflects on his experience shooting Robert Frank’s newly restored 1987 film

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Close-up

Camilla Deterre With a high-concept vision, the model turned interior designer has helped make Casino one of downtown Manhattan’s coolest restaurants

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What a Prick

Don’t Shoot Me The chipmunk cheeks, the bulbous chin, the lips that look ready to pop. When filler injections go too far, doctors say, they can be dissolved. Turns out, it’s a little more complicated

Beauty and Wellness

Eye of the Beholder It’s no longer enough to simply smell good. For the .01 percent, only a completely custom fragrance will do. And if it costs tens of thousands of dollars, so be it! Our sensible beauty columnist sniffs out the truth of this trend


Highlight

In Lichtenstein’s Shadow In honor of the Pop artist’s 100th birthday, the Parrish Art Museum is restoring a pair of his kinetic sculptures

Food

A Hidden Restaurant Gem in Connecticut? It’s True At Materia, a Le Bernardin alum cooks dishes that make you feel like you’re in Italy

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Barhopping

Bottoms Up Copenhagen has long been an epicenter of fine dining. But these exciting wine bars make the case for a less fussy experience

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Books

Murder, They Wrote Tragic beauties dominate this month’s best mystery novels—as well as a 1946 noir classic

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The Literary World

Hollywood Beginning Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s new novel captures the actor’s mindset so incisively that Chloë Sevigny and Busy Philipps are early fans

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Landing Gear

An Idea with Legs Prepare for fall with an Adirondack chair that heats up! Noodle on a slew of positively medieval instruments! A Web site to help you learn the Romance languages! And more …

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Fiction

Joining “the Firm” An aspiring journalist from New Delhi gets a private tour of Kensington Palace—his new girlfriend’s childhood home

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The Look From Here

Hands Up! Age is nothing but a number—except when it comes to the skin south of our wrists. But don’t just sit there—do something!

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The Planet

Hot Properties Habitable seeks to combine real-estate porn with eco-disaster anxiety. But who’s it really for?


French Exit

The Last Spies of Paris Unlike porters in London or doormen in New York, Paris’s omnipresent gardiennes—the eyes and ears of Haussmann buildings—are fast disappearing

Photography

When Lee Met Dave From the front lines to Hitler’s bathtub, Lee Miller and my father, Dave Scherman, made one of the great photojournalistic duos

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