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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

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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

T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Pete Hegseth pushes up, Kash Patel punches down, and Donald Trump sends the National Guard all around


Books

Days of Wine and Ruses

Inside Story

The Spy Who Came In from the Burning Picassos Working undercover for the French Resistance, Rose Valland witnessed the Nazis’ destruction of 500 precious artworks

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Food

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

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Collector’s Items

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

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When in Rome

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

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Fan Club Confidential

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

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Stockholm Syndrome

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

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Publish and Perish

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

Books

In a Hollywood Far, Far Away


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

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

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Reflections

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

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T.G.I.S.

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!

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Inside Story

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

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Stayin’ Alive

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

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T.G.I.S.

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

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Food

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

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State of Grace


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