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Sex, Drugs, and Photography

Dance Therapy Forty years ago, renowned music photographer Lynn Goldsmith created a cult-hit music album with the help of Carly Simon, Sting … and Warren Beatty

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Kiss and Makeup

Missing the Marc What ever happened to Marc Jacobs Beauty? The makeup line once loved by Emily Ratajkowski, Aubrey Plaza, and seemingly everyone on the Internet suddenly disappeared. Now maybe, just maybe, it’s coming back again …

Inside Story

Some Strings Attached The little-known story of a wartime British ambassador who appeased Adolf Hitler but saw the error of his ways


Knives Out!

The World’s Most Expensive Face-Lift What does half a million dollars’ worth of plastic surgery get you? We peek beneath the bandages

Open Book

Donald Trump, Party Crasher Dana Brown was plucked from his bartending post to work at Vanity Fair in its golden era. One of his jobs was manning the door at dinner parties—and keeping the uninvited out

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Beauty and Wellness

Eye of the Beholder Whether it’s real (Barbra), prosthetic (Bradley), or doctored (every third Instagram influencer), the nose is having a moment. Our beauty-and-wellness reporter sniffs around Hollywood

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Travel

Are We There Yet? After two years of limbo, the gap year is back. One hardened traveler offers up all the overly detailed, tried-and-tested advice your teen should know but will inevitably ignore

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The Art-World Underbelly

Behind Closed Doors Claims of questionable business ethics and sexual improprieties at Carpenters Workshop, the art world’s most prestigious design gallery, reveal a company flying dangerously close to the sun

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Eight Questions

One Thing Ledes to Another The longtime New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin discusses his early years in journalism, humor in the Internet era, and his new essay collection, The Lede

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Bridal Wars

So Much More than a Wedding This season, “non-wedding weddings”—think short ceremonies, long parties, and far-flung locales—are all the rage, and brides have taken the assignment to heart

Beauty and Wellness

Eye of the Beholder These days, women in their 40s—and younger—are fueling the frenzy for facelifts. What’s behind this wrinkle-induced terror? Our beauty-and-wellness investigator cuts to the heart of the matter


Books

Days of Wine and Ruses

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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Collector’s Items

Art That’s Out of This World Meteorites are rare, expensive, and being snapped up by collectors

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When in Rome

Cinema Inferno Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, and Anita Ekberg all feature in a newly translated memoir of Italian cinema that’s oozing with sex, sleaze, and scandal

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Fan Club Confidential

Girls Just Want to F1 The wild success of Netflix’s docuseries Formula 1: Drive to Survive has bred a new type of Grand Prix fan

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Stockholm Syndrome

The Nordic Connection How a turf war between rival gangs turned Sweden—yes, Sweden—into the most violent country in Europe

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Publish and Perish

Swan Song Truman Capote’s social suicide by novel: the story behind the new mini-series Feud: Capote vs. the Swans

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Inside Story

The Garden of Heathens Between the turmoil of the World Wars, a few Europeans settled on a desolate Galápagos island. The experiment quickly descended into chaos


Eight Questions

Been There, Dunne That Griffin Dunne reflects on his sister’s horrific murder, the making of Scorsese’s After Hours, his friendship with Carrie Fisher, and a colorful life in New York and Hollywood

Reflections

Game Face Do the rules about makeup have to change as you age? One woman clings to her cat eye

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