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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

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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


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

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

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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

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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

Collector’s Items

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


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

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

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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

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Reflections

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

T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index This week sees the return of the prodigal prince to the top of the Index. Can he be overthrown by an even more querulous windbag? You decide!


Inside Story

The Wife That History Forgot A new discovery sheds fresh light on Alice Hathaway Lee, Theodore Roosevelt’s first love, who was largely written off as inconsequential in the president’s life

Stayin’ Alive

How to Not Commit Suicide in Russia Even if you’re one of Vladimir Putin’s allies, you stand a good chance of catching a fatal case of the glums

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