Air Mail

Open Roads to Candy Mountain In an interview, the actor Kevin J. O’Connor reflects on his experience shooting Robert Frank’s newly restored 1987 film

By David Stewart

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Elements of Style

Better by Design Once a niche market for insiders, the collectible-design world now draws star-studded crowds. Is it eclipsing fashion as the ultimate marker of taste?

By Isiah Magsino

Close-up

Camilla Deterre With a high-concept vision, the model turned interior designer has helped make Casino one of downtown Manhattan’s coolest restaurants

By Hayley J. Clark

What a Prick

Don’t Shoot Me The chipmunk cheeks, the bulbous chin, the lips that look ready to pop. When filler injections go too far, doctors say, they can be dissolved. Turns out, it’s a little more complicated

By Jolene Edgar

Eye of the Beholder It’s no longer enough to simply smell good. For the .01 percent, only a completely custom fragrance will do. And if it costs tens of thousands of dollars, so be it! Our sensible beauty columnist sniffs out the truth of this trend

By Linda Wells

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In Lichtenstein’s Shadow In honor of the Pop artist’s 100th birthday, the Parrish Art Museum is restoring a pair of his kinetic sculptures

By Peter Saenger

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The Attention-Whore Index Laura Loomer gains influence, the Princess of Wales gains highlights, and Samuel Pepys gains notoriety

By George Kalogerakis

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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

By Alan Richman

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Bottoms Up Copenhagen has long been an epicenter of fine dining. But these exciting wine bars make the case for a less fussy experience

By Kyle Beechey

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Murder, They Wrote Tragic beauties dominate this month’s best mystery novels—as well as a 1946 noir classic

By Lisa Henricksson

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The Attention-Whore Index Steve Bannon plots, Donald Trump brags, and Prince Andrew is cast out

By George Kalogerakis

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The Literary World

Hollywood Beginning Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s new novel captures the actor’s mindset so incisively that Chloë Sevigny and Busy Philipps are early fans

By Maggie Lange

Landing Gear

An Idea with Legs Prepare for fall with an Adirondack chair that heats up! Noodle on a slew of positively medieval instruments! A Web site to help you learn the Romance languages! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

Fiction

Joining “the Firm” An aspiring journalist from New Delhi gets a private tour of Kensington Palace—his new girlfriend’s childhood home

By Aatish Taseer

Hands Up! Age is nothing but a number—except when it comes to the skin south of our wrists. But don’t just sit there—do something!

By Linda Wells

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Rushdie’s Triumph

By James Kirchick

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Hot Properties Habitable seeks to combine real-estate porn with eco-disaster anxiety. But who’s it really for?

By Lucy Horowitz

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The Last Spies of Paris Unlike porters in London or doormen in New York, Paris’s omnipresent gardiennes—the eyes and ears of Haussmann buildings—are fast disappearing

By Makana Eyre

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When Lee Met Dave From the front lines to Hitler’s bathtub, Lee Miller and my father, Dave Scherman, made one of the great photojournalistic duos

By Tony Scherman

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War of the Gourmet Grocers Fighting over everything from chicken salad to trad-wife protein powder, a spate of Manhattan prepared-food stores are vying to take the place of the mother ship, Dean & DeLuca

By Clara Molot

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Waiting for Jolie With her new downtown boutique, Angelina Jolie may have created the most sustainable clothing store ever—by making it virtually impossible to shop there

By Dana Brown

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Highlight

“A World in Convulsion”

By Nicholas Fox Weber

Inside Story

Lady and the Little Tramp Among Charlie Chaplin’s many ill-fated trysts, perhaps his most disastrous was with Joan Barry, a woman 30 years his junior

By Diane Kiesel

Highlight

Moment of Moments The Albertina Museum, in Vienna, presents a retrospective on Marc Chagall, the Belarusian artist whose Jewish heritage holds particular relevance today

By Andrew Pulver

Beyond the Grave Ahead of his new solo show, the artist Scott Covert discusses his artistic breakthrough and sneaking into cemeteries to create his paintings

By Elena Clavarino

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