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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

Stockholm Syndrome

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


Book Reviews

A Different Kind of Gold Digger

Publish and Perish

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

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The ZZZ List

Living the Dream Money can’t buy happiness, but from $5,000 smart mattress covers to circadian-tuned private jets, the .1 percent is determined to buy a good night’s sleep

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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

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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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Little Britain

A Beckxit Bombshell From his L.A. mansion, prodigal son Brooklyn Beckham has leveled a laundry list of accusations against his parents, Becks and Posh Spice. Is anyone else having déjà vu?

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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!

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


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

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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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

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Adventures in Journalism

A Charmed Life Poet, human-rights activist, world traveler, wife of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist William Styron—a new memoir chronicles the many sides of Rose Styron

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Can anyone stop Prince Harry’s run of victories? Kevin Spacey and others make their move. But the decision is up to you!

Close-up

Jean-Paul Vaugoin The sixth-generation heir to Vienna’s last remaining silver manufacturer is innovating and sticking to tradition in equal measure


Do or Diet?

Body Snatcher For those of us who find eating to be a fraught proposition, Ozempic can mean freedom. So why have we decided the shot is shameful?

Style

Born in the Cradle of Couture Officine Générale, Pierre Mahéo’s easy-elegance line, has become a hot brand for the sophisticated man

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