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Galley Envy Could the most coveted object of the summer be an uncorrected manuscript you can’t even buy?

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Smoke and Mirrors

Designer Drugs A fashion designer who got his start with Oscar de la Renta is adding high style to his marijuana dispensary, and it’s attracting an unlikely clientele

Skin in the Game

Touch and Glow Is the humble safflower the next big miracle worker in skin care? We go to Japan with a hope and a prayer


Air Mail Diary

Not All Is What It Seems to Be in Gwyneth’s Home And other strange news about these curious days …

Air Mail Diary

Controversy over The Crown (the Show, Not Charles) And other strange news about these curious days …

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Higher Things In Florence, an exhibition showcases the work of Fra Angelico, the Italian Renaissance painter and Dominican friar behind some of the era’s most inventive sacred imagery

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Kiss and Makeup

Powder to the People Leave that cakey, thick talc in the dust and embrace the new lightweight, almost creamy formulations

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Real Estate

The Canceled-Man Discount For some buyers, a public figure’s shaming presents a great opportunity: a real-estate bargain

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Stranger than Fiction Teatro Nuovo gives Carolina Uccelli’s lone surviving opera, Anna di Resburgo, a long-overdue second shot

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But First …

The View from Here Rich Cohen had always felt ambivalent about his name—until he attended a convention of Richard Cohens

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index So-called racist royals and a disloyal ambassador vie with Donald Trump and his recurring dishwasher obsession. Who is demanding the most of your attention? Plus: the world’s strangest stories, collected for you!

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Inspector Gadget

Landing Gear Everything you need to set the tone, predict the weather, jump out of the frying pan and into the air fryer, and more

Chop Shop

Splitting Hairs Inside the messy legal battle that’s temporarily shuttered Paul Molé, the Upper East Side barbershop where everyone from Henry Fonda to John F. Kennedy Jr. went for haircuts


Food and Wine

A Mitzvah on Division Street Alison Roman, Andy Baraghani, and Sascha Seinfeld gathered at Sunn’s restaurant, in New York’s Chinatown, for a Korean-style Passover Seder

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The View from Here A cheerleader’s call to President Biden: How about less pomp and more pom-poms?

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Air Mail Diary

BoJo Hustles for Work And other curious news about these strange days …

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The Queen of Caricature Before Nora Ephron and Gay Talese, there was Kate Carew, a cartoonist who sat down with everyone from Mark Twain to Picasso

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Crime and Scandal

Private Quarters Brant Lake Camp was warned about pedophiles in their midst. Why did the camp not act against them?

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Air Mail Diary

The Glorious Collapse of Truth Social, Trump’s Social-Media App And other strange news about these curious days …

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Boy Toys

The Ultimate Baby Driver The Little Car Company makes scaled-down replicas of Ferraris and Bentleys that retail for six figures. But their target audience is larger than you’d think

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Highlight

A Cri de Coeur for the Moment Alice Diop discusses Saint Omer, a drama of race and motherhood that marks the filmmaker’s first fiction feature, selected as France’s entry in the upcoming Academy Awards

T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Trump, Musk, Carlson—the names trip off the tongue like a list of medical complaints, but which one will get your vote? Plus, all the latest cat-killing and baby-frightening news from around the world


T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Donald Trump gets down, Kristi Noem sucks up, and Elon Musk fibs widely

Air Mail Diary

Prince William’s Eyebrow-Raising News Peg And other strange news about these curious days …

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