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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

By Jonathan Margolis

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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

By Maggie Lange

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 …

By Jonathan Margolis

Fiction

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

By Aatish Taseer

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!

By Linda Wells

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Rushdie’s Triumph

By James Kirchick

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

By Lucy Horowitz

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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

By Makana Eyre

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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

By Tony Scherman

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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

By Clara Molot

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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

By Elena Clavarino

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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

By Dana Brown

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

By Matt Kapp

Highlight

“A World in Convulsion”

By Nicholas Fox Weber

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

By Diane Kiesel

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Moment of Moments The Albertina Museum, in Vienna, presents a retrospective on Marc Chagall, the Belarusian artist whose Jewish heritage holds particular relevance today

By Andrew Pulver

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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

By Mason Currey

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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

By Elena Clavarino

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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

By Ash Carter

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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

By Andrew Zucker

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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

By Christine Muhlke

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Style

Kaitlin Phillips’s Holiday Gift Guide Cecily Brown, Ina Garten, George Condo, Audrey Gelman, and others recommend gifts that are eclectic, original, and sure to delight this season

By Kaitlin Phillips

Daddy Issues To the outside world, my father was a gifted and accomplished author. To his family, he was a self-destructive and deeply flawed man

By Joe McGinniss Jr.

Rules of Attraction

The Silver Fox Is Back, Baby! From George Clooney to The White Lotus’s Jason Isaacs, to Canada’s new prime minister, men over the age of 60 are having a moment

By Hilary Rose

The Attention-Whore Index Donald Trump is in a dilemma, Kathy Hochul is in a dither, and Steve Bannon is going inside. Plus, the strangest news from around the world

By George Kalogerakis

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