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The Perfect Ending

Brooke Garber Neidich The Sidney Garber Fine Jewelry designer answers 71 of life’s most pressing questions

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Book Reviews

End of Empire

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The View from Here Bootlegging, drug dealing, Airbnb-ing. Diplomats abandoned by their countries turn to unusual trades to keep the consular lights burning


Photography

Magnum Opus A new book celebrates the history and legacy of the Magnum Photos cooperative with work by Eve Arnold, Werner Bischof, René Burri, Martin Parr, and Alessandra Sanguinetti

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Two More Prince Andrew Dramas And other strange news about these curious days …

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The Food World

Dishy! With $300,000 salaries, first-class travel, and endless opportunities to work with caviar, it’s boom times for private chefs

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Crime and Punishment

The Man in the Lineup: Part III Anthony Broadwater was convicted of the 1981 rape of novelist Alice Sebold. After serving 16 and a half years, he was found innocent. Now he has a new set of worries

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Cracking the Code of Taylor Swift And other strange news about these curious days …

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What a Prick

The Big Shrink Is the era of overfilled hot-dog-bun lips reaching its peak? Stop your pouting!

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The View from Here Where the 1960s had love and the 1980s greed, the 2020s are quickly being defined by anger. Forget the Roaring 20s—welcome to the Raging 20s!

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Smoke and Mirrors

Designer Drugs A fashion designer who got his start with Oscar de la Renta is adding high style to his marijuana dispensary, and it’s attracting an unlikely clientele

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Skin in the Game

Touch and Glow Is the humble safflower the next big miracle worker in skin care? We go to Japan with a hope and a prayer

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Not All Is What It Seems to Be in Gwyneth’s Home And other strange news about these curious days …


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Controversy over The Crown (the Show, Not Charles) And other strange news about these curious days …

Real Estate

The Canceled-Man Discount For some buyers, a public figure’s shaming presents a great opportunity: a real-estate bargain

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Highlight

Stranger than Fiction Teatro Nuovo gives Carolina Uccelli’s lone surviving opera, Anna di Resburgo, a long-overdue second shot

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The View from Here Rich Cohen had always felt ambivalent about his name—until he attended a convention of Richard Cohens

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index So-called racist royals and a disloyal ambassador vie with Donald Trump and his recurring dishwasher obsession. Who is demanding the most of your attention? Plus: the world’s strangest stories, collected for you!

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Inspector Gadget

Landing Gear Everything you need to set the tone, predict the weather, jump out of the frying pan and into the air fryer, and more

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Chop Shop

Splitting Hairs Inside the messy legal battle that’s temporarily shuttered Paul Molé, the Upper East Side barbershop where everyone from Henry Fonda to John F. Kennedy Jr. went for haircuts

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The View from Here A cheerleader’s call to President Biden: How about less pomp and more pom-poms?

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BoJo Hustles for Work And other curious news about these strange days …

The Queen of Caricature Before Nora Ephron and Gay Talese, there was Kate Carew, a cartoonist who sat down with everyone from Mark Twain to Picasso


Crime and Scandal

Private Quarters Brant Lake Camp was warned about pedophiles in their midst. Why did the camp not act against them?

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The Glorious Collapse of Truth Social, Trump’s Social-Media App And other strange news about these curious days …

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