New York
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
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
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
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
But First …
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
Body Language
Golden Girl The spray tan has shed its streaky reputation, and now everyone from Ryan Gosling to Jennifer Lawrence is going under the gun
