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Look’s Book: New York The insider’s guide to the best cuts, color, brows, and lashes in town

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Kiss and Makeup

The Makeup Game If we pay enough attention to the pros, can we really learn to do our own red-carpet-ready makeup? MasterClass is in session!

The Truman Show

A Piece of Paradise A lost short story handwritten by the acclaimed author Truman Capote is published for the first time


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The View from Here Scenes from the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University

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Jean-Pierre Villafañe The Puerto Rican artist’s bacchanalian paintings of New Yorkers go on view at the Armory Show

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Shelf Help

Get Out of Your Head! Novelist Laura Zigman is using lessons learned from her own struggles in publishing to provide talk therapy to other writers

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The View from Here Why isn’t John Williams treated like Igor Stravinsky?

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Film and Television

The Devil’s in the Details From Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God to the novels of Elena Ferrante—where has this insatiable appetite for all things Naples come from?

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Film

A Feminist Frankenstein Director Yorgos Lanthimos and screenwriter Tony McNamara discuss their new film, Poor Things, starring Emma Stone as a child-woman like no other

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Eight Questions

Painting the White House Orange In an interview, authors Peter Baker and Susan Glasser discuss Trump’s indictments, his similarities with Putin, and what a 2024 election could look like

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Letter from L.A.

The Battle for Chinatown In Los Angeles, the forces of gentrification face up against the long-term residents

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Juan Diego Silva-Zúñiga The 25-year-old left his life in Mexico to pursue directing. To make his first music video, he had to get scrappy


Landing Gear

Speak for Yourself Software that can synthesize your voice in the event that you lose it! A water fountain for your feline friends! The sleekest space heater around! And more …

The Restaurant Life

Valentin’s Day France’s newest superstar chef is drawing gourmets from all over Europe to Livingston, his restaurant in Marseille

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Art and Commerce

Kahlo Incorporated How did Frida Kahlo go from being a little-known artist to a feminist icon to a global brand?

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A Man For All Seasons

Ford Tough After 35 years in fashion and beauty, Tom Ford sold his company—and in his first post-exit interview, he says he won’t be looking back

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Eight Questions

Catcher in the Wry Eight questions with Christopher Buckley, ranging in subject from his comic pandemic novel and George Bush 41 to what his parents would have made of Trump

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Stranding Out!

Heads Up! Matt Rez paints the strands of the hottest women in Hollywood. Why have we never heard of him?

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Memories of Mantel Hilary Mantel’s longtime editor remembers the singular talent and warm generosity of the writer who brought us the Thomas Cromwell trilogy

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Music Men

We Are Family (for Now … ) Elliot Grainge is about to join his father, Sir Lucian Grainge, atop the global music industry. Is he a nepo baby? Or a patricide in the making?

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Highlight

A Walk on the Wild Side Harumi Klossowska de Rola—the artist, jeweler, wildlife enthusiast, and daughter of the 20th-century painter Balthus—brings her enigmatic animal sculptures to Palm Beach

Inspector Gadget

Landing Gear Everything you need to keep—or get—fit, stay in the saddle, subdue your fear of flying, and more


Book Reviews

Murder, They Wrote This month’s best mystery books are throwbacks to different periods in American history, from the 20s to the 90s

The Way We Were

Stars and Stripes For three decades, a zebra-patterned banquette at the El Morocco put you at the center of New York nightlife—as long as you were on the right side of the room

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