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Landing Gear

Sweet Science A hard-hitting fitness tracker! A clock for book-lovers! The best tool for cleaning your shoes! And more …

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High Times

The Ultimate Map of New York and Its Drugs From Xanax to cocaine to mushrooms, we break down the city’s drug scene by neighborhood

Air Mail Diary

The Kinky King of Europe And other strange news about these curious days …


Design for Living

Rule of Three Have the Bidens ruined aviator sunglasses for the rest of us? How to avoid looking like a rent boy on the runway! And more, in our column on how to live …

In Cold Blood

The “Preppy Killer” She Knew A new novel revisits 1980s Manhattan—and the murder that defined an era

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Inspector Gadget

Landing Gear A formidable home-security system from Ukraine; gym equipment fit for a superhero; a smart app for sound-sensitive diners; and more

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Inside Story

“A Castro or Worse” Patrice Lumumba won the Congo independence in 1960, but his suspected Soviet sympathies led to his overthrow. A new book reveals the man behind the myth—and the C.I.A.’s role in his murder

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Elements of Style

Bring In the Suits Dunhill’s new creative director is bringing Britain’s men’s-wear traditions to the next generation

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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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Roguish Riviera

Money Talks A peek inside Prince Albert’s finances paints a picture of a feeble monarch, browbeaten by the women in his life

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Close-up

Daria Kolomiec The Ukrainian D.J. and activist is using music and storytelling as a war cry

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King’s Gambit

Stanley Kubrick’s Waterloo Having just tackled the end of the world and the mysteries of the universe, the obsessive director set his sights on Napoleon. Tens of thousands of index cards later, he waved the white flag

Landing Gear

Global Transmission Listen to music without borders! Get rid of your smartphone! Tell time with … silicon? And more …


Television

The Hits Keep Coming After the success of Unorthodox, its co-creator Anna Winger returns to Netflix with Transatlantic, a black comedy about World War II–era refugees

Bad Trip

Sex, Drugs, and Bloody Murder The gruesome killing of an aspiring model by a rich American playboy sent shock waves through Swinging London and its infamous Chelsea Set

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Is Elon Musk having trouble with his X? Did Melania Trump almost quit the White House? Is there a rift in the Sussex-verse? Who is demanding your attention?

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Highlight

The Prisoner’s Song The Dazed and Confused and Boyhood director, Richard Linklater, discusses trading drama for documentary in his latest, a searing film about the American prison system

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Photography

Lee Friedlander, Framed Collaborating with the cinematic photographer, the filmmaker Joel Coen is staging shows of Friedlander’s work on both coasts

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Air Mail Diary

The Further Adventures of the Heir and the Spare And other strange news about these curious days …

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Great Lives

Marina Cicogna The Italian countess transcended her gilded background to become Europe’s first major female film producer

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Get in Line!

It’s Only a Grocery Store And yet Erewhon has become the epicenter of Hollywood. See you at the salad bar?

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Modern Times

Spite the Power When Larry David invented “the spite store,” he meant it as a joke. But today the concept seems to animate most of American politics

A Look Back

Just Glow with It Only partly French and certainly not a sunscreen, Bain de Soleil nevertheless brought a whiff of St. Tropez to the masses

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