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His Name Is “Dr. Zee” Mark Zuckerberg: from entitled nerd in flip-flops to … Bond villain?

By Henry Alford

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Gifts for Men

Chris Black’s Holiday Gift Guide Shopping for men has never been an easy proposition. From the perfect cashmere crewneck to the best travel accessories, to stylish homeware essentials, the co-host of the How Long Gone podcast is here to help

By Chris Black

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Thomas Doherty After playing cheeky bad boys in High Fidelity and Gossip Girl, the 29-year-old actor is taking on a much darker role in his first indie film, Dandelion

By Jeanne Malle

Finding Gaudí How the playful details of Antoni Gaudí’s architecture turned one critic into an admirer

By Michael Eaude

The View from Here The anti-Semitic reactions in America to the war in Gaza are threatening the country’s most essential compact

By Rich Cohen

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Pretty Women

By Joanne Kaufman

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Forever Young Face-lift maestro Dr. Gerald Imber has been preaching the gospel of early intervention for decades. Now, thanks to TikTok, twentysomethings are actually listening

By Brennan Kilbane

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Divided We Fail Alex Garland’s Civil War hurtles through the ravaging violence and chilling anomie of a Disunited States

By Michael Sragow

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An Intriguing New Model Tesla aficionados who have lost their appetite for Elon Musk are turning to Lucid

By Laura Neilson

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The Attention-Whore Index The Trump nominees pile up, Elon Musk gets down, and Matt Gaetz circles the drain

By George Kalogerakis

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Gaëtan Bruel Ahead of Bastille Day, the French cultural counselor discusses how New York’s Villa Albertine was born, and the novel approach it’s taking to artists’ residency programs

By Lim May Zhee

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Books

Murder, They Wrote This month’s mystery books take on the subject of war from all angles—and places, from the English countryside to Egypt

By Lisa Henricksson

Megxit Follies

The Sussex Survivors’ Club The trauma. The truths. The tears. The second installment of Harry & Meghan goes full-blown reality TV

By Hilary Rose

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Best Seats in the House

By Osman Can Yerebakan

The Property-Whore Index Billionaires like nothing better than getting into property battles with their equally rich neighbors. This week we chart the worst offenders

By George Kalogerakis

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A Ritzy Paris Building Where Millionaires Will Live Next to Former Homeless People And other strange news about these curious days …

By George Kalogerakis

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That’s Hot? New laser treatments aimed at the nether regions make all sorts of promises. But not all patients achieve a happy ending

By Judith Newman

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The Cat’s Meow As Julie Newmar turns 90, a look back at the siren of stage and screen

By David Downton

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Waiting for Godet A mysterious briefcase! A retirement-home breakout! A next-gen perfumer’s quest to revive her family’s storied fragrance house has been a wild ride

By Jade Angeles Fitton

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Last Round at Margaritaville Some of Jimmy Buffett’s friends remember the man who had many

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A Journal of the Plague Year

By Pico Iyer

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Air Mail Diary

Netflix to Harry and Meghan: You Work for Us, You Know And other strange news about these curious days …

By George Kalogerakis

Annals of Delusion

The Cult Around the Corner For nearly 30 years, a fringe psychologist exerted total control over the lives of his followers. His not-so-secret headquarters? A town house on Manhattan’s Upper West Side

By Daphne Merkin

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The Other Ivana Guess whom I befriended in rehab in Malibu?

By Ivana Lowell

Assignment: Sinatra A legendary editor. A recalcitrant writer. And a subject that was both man and myth. The story behind the writing of what became known as the greatest magazine profile ever

By Gay Talese

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