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Hallucinating Graydon Carter Following the publication of When the Going Was Good, A.I.-generated rip-offs have flooded the market—how do they stack up?

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The View from Here Disenchanted with the finance and consulting tracks that once defined success, some elite college grads are trading desk jobs for grueling blue-collar work

Music Man

The Towering Bobby Short For 36 years there was no more quintessential New York experience than seeing Bobby Short perform at the Café Carlyle


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Brompton

The Perfect Ending

Rita Wilson The singer-songwriter, actress, and producer answers 35 of life’s most pressing questions

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Chronicles of Disruption

Game Changers As America’s major sports leagues became moneymaking monopolies, a trio of trailblazing organizations—rife with scandal and star power—tried to cut in on the action

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Lessons in Controversy

Rebel with a Cause How Philip Weiss went from being “the Dennis Rodman of journalism” to full-time anti-Zionist agitator

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Man Trouble

Treasure Chest Looking better naked is going public, with men finding their own interpretation of “free the nipple”

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City Guides

Jeffrey Deitch’s Guide to Los Angeles The art dealer shares his favorite up-and-coming galleries in his adopted city

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But First …

The View from Here Disenchanted with the finance and consulting tracks that once defined success, some elite college grads are trading desk jobs for grueling blue-collar work

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Modern Times

Invasion of the Sororities! The Greek-life craze that has dominated campuses in the South is creeping northward, with the Ivies and small liberal-arts colleges buying in—and specialized “consultants” cashing in

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City Guides

Refik Anadol’s Guide to Istanbul The Turkish-American new media artist shares his favorite spots in his home city

Little Britain

Yanks-on-the-Wold The Cotswolds are alive with the sound of Americans


Rolling Plunder

Putin’s Gold Rush Russian archaeologists are looting Ukrainian museums of gold, artifacts, and weapons that the Kremlin says prove that Russia is an ancient civilization many thousands of years old. (It’s not)

City Guides

Sean Scully’s Guide to London The Irish-American artist shares his favorite spots in Hampstead, the neighborhood he calls home

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Food

Basque in It The husband-and-wife team of Eder Montero and Alex Raij has created some of New York’s best neighborhood restaurants

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The Publishing World

When It Comes to Book Parties, More Is, Apparently, More If Mark Ronson, Keith McNally, a Real Housewife, and an artist’s wife are anything to go by, it’s not enough to have just one book party anymore

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Close-up

Joey Scalabrino The New York restaurateur’s Apollo Bagels is so popular it risks being evicted from the West Village

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Close-up

Jack Siebert The Los Angeles–based curator using social media to find the art world’s rising stars

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Modern Times

The Joy of Missing Out After decades spent optimizing their lives, the affluent are now paying to be bored, silent, and uncomfortable

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New & Noteworthy

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The Seasoned Traveler

Sloane Crosley The essayist, novelist, and memoirist reveals her travel routine


City Guides

Bob Colacello’s Guide to Long Island The writer and art-world fixture shares his go-to spots around Southampton

Down the Rabbit Hole

The DoorDash Delivery Scandal That Rocked the Internet TikTok, Reddit, and X are abuzz over the alleged sexual assault of a female delivery driver

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