Air Mail

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

By Matthew Gurewitsch

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The Perfect Ending

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

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

By Matthew Gurewitsch

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 …

By Jonathan Margolis

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

By Joseph Bullmore

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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

By James Kirchick

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

By Joy Behar

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“Memoria” at Fotografiska

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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

By George Kalogerakis

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Blade

By Jensen Davis

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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?

By Rich Cohen

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Literary Classics

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

By Michelle Stacey

Film

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

By York Underwood

Books

Stand-up Women

By Richard Zoglin

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

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

By Harrison Vail

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

By Carolina de Armas

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

By Jill Kargman

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A Tendency to Court Disaster Peter Matthiessen aspired to write the Great American Novel. His son Lucas’s posthumous memoir reads like Greek tragedy

By Ben Ryder Howe

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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

By James Kirchick

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Ballet’s North Star Holiday tradition! Cash cow! George Balanchine’s production of The Nutcracker has involved audiences in the magic of dance every year since its premiere, in 1954

By Faye Arthurs

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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?

By Lynn Q. Yu

Highlight

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

By Francesca Cartier Brickell

Arts and Letters

The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part III Norman Mailer swore he’d never work with Lawrence Schiller again. But financial need changed his mind—and literary history

By David Margolick

Hair Scare Pretty much everyone’s losing their hair, but new machines, serums, and drugs aim to revive the lushness

By Linda Wells

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