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Barhopping

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

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Books

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

The Art of the Steal

Game of Throne With Maurizio Cattelan’s latest act arriving next week, a look back at the improbable saga of the Italian artist’s $6 million golden toilet


T.G.I.S.

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

Open Book

The Sport of All Sports “A game of the people, by the people”: as the World Cup comes to a close, a coffee-table book—and a devoted fan—pays tribute to the elegance and grandeur of soccer

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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

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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 …

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Fiction

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

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The Look From Here

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!

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The Planet

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

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French Exit

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

Photography

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


The Shops Around the Corner

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

Close-up

Sophie Lou Jacobsen Inspired by the Memphis Group and known for her playful, wavy home goods, the French-American designer is now channeling Italo disco in a new series unveiled at Milan’s Salone del Mobile

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Market Research

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

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But First …

The View from Here Trump’s war on the media has generated a lot of sound and fury, not to mention a handful of well-publicized settlements—but few actual victories in court

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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

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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

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Books

The Poet’s Premiums Wallace Stevens was a successful insurance executive by day and a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet by night—but his letters reveal he had existential doubts about the trade-off

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Highlight

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

But First …

The View from Here A 1960s hoax by liberal luminaries including E. L. Doctorow fueled the conspiracy theories that Trump has relied on his entire political career


Modern Times

Break Camp For decades, DJ Jeff Yahney was the king of sleepaway summer camps. Then cost-cutting Wall Street types realized his venues could be investments

The Restaurant Life

The Stalwart of SoHo For the past 50 years, Raoul’s has been a stomping ground for New York luminaries like Chloë Sevigny, Robert De Niro, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Now it’s being discovered by a new generation

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