Air Mail

Facing the Music

By Joanne Kaufman

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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

By Elena Clavarino

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

By Linda Wells

Books

Days of Wine and Ruses

By Joanne Kaufman

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

By Carl Wilkinson

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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

By Dalya Alberge

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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

By Lynn Q. Yu

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The Nordic Connection How a turf war between rival gangs turned Sweden—yes, Sweden—into the most violent country in Europe

By Ravi Somaiya

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A Different Kind of Gold Digger

By Celia McGee

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Swan Song Truman Capote’s social suicide by novel: the story behind the new mini-series Feud: Capote vs. the Swans

By Sam Kashner

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Books

In a Hollywood Far, Far Away

By Nicolas Rapold

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

By Abbott Kahler

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

By Jim Kelly

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

By April Long

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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!

By George Kalogerakis

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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

By Edward F. O’Keefe

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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

By Henry Alford

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The Attention-Whore Index A bankrupt Swiss bank? A perp-walking ex-president? Sometimes the world seems topsy-turvy, but, thankfully, the royals are bickering as usual. Vote now on this week’s biggest attention suck! Plus: global news you might have missed

By George Kalogerakis

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Just like Home, only Better Is Chez Nous, in Charleston, the best small restaurant in America?

By Alan Richman

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State of Grace

By Apollinaire Scherr

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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

Matrons of the Arts

By Laura Freeman

Adventures in Journalism

A Charmed Life Poet, human-rights activist, world traveler, wife of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist William Styron—a new memoir chronicles the many sides of Rose Styron

By Daphne Merkin

The Attention-Whore Index Can anyone stop Prince Harry’s run of victories? Kevin Spacey and others make their move. But the decision is up to you!

By George Kalogerakis

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