Air Mail

A Different Kind of Gold Digger

By Celia McGee

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Publish and Perish

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

By Sam Kashner

Books

In a Hollywood Far, Far Away

By Nicolas Rapold

Books

Schmuck You

By Sam Wasson

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

By Andrew Zucker

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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

By Abbott Kahler

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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

By Jim Kelly

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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?

By Stuart Heritage

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Game Face Do the rules about makeup have to change as you age? One woman clings to her cat eye

By April Long

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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!

By George Kalogerakis

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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

By Edward F. O’Keefe

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Highlight

The Eternal Ana Mendieta Four decades after her contentious death, the pioneer of body and land art—known for dissolving the boundaries between herself, nature, and the spirit world—is celebrated with a retrospective in London

By Patricia Zohn

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

By Henry Alford

Books

Moving Mountains

By Celia McGee

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

By George Kalogerakis

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Just like Home, only Better Is Chez Nous, in Charleston, the best small restaurant in America?

By Alan Richman

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State of Grace

By Apollinaire Scherr

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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

By Daphne Merkin

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Becoming Gloria Steinem The artist Barbara Nessim recalls how she and the future feminist icon lived together, danced together—and shared a fierce determination not to settle down

By Madeleine Spence

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Matrons of the Arts

By Laura Freeman

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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

By Daphne Merkin

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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!

By George Kalogerakis

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

By Madeline Weinfield

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?

By Ashley Baker

Wish You Were Here! Love, Stephen Stephen Hough’s Piano Postcards mirrors a classical star’s life on the road

By Matthew Gurewitsch

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