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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!

Books

Rushdie’s Triumph


The Planet

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

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

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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

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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

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


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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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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T.G.I.S.

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

The Restaurant Life

From Tadpole to Frog Prince For decades, Charles Masson presided over La Grenouille, hosting everyone from Edward R. Murrow to David Rockefeller—not to mention a tricky Truman Capote


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The View from Here Welcome to Toronto, the West’s newest sanctuary city—for Americans

Books and Baubles

Are Those Socks Bukowski? Celebrated authors don’t have to “go Hollywood” to sell out—they just have to die

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