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A Bro Is Born How Cory Michael Smith went from growing up in blue-collar Ohio to playing a tech billionaire in Mountainhead, the new movie from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong

By Scarlett Russell

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Roguish Riviera

Money Talks A peek inside Prince Albert’s finances paints a picture of a feeble monarch, browbeaten by the women in his life

By Adam Sage

Close-up

Daria Kolomiec The Ukrainian D.J. and activist is using music and storytelling as a war cry

By Jack Sullivan

King’s Gambit

Stanley Kubrick’s Waterloo Having just tackled the end of the world and the mysteries of the universe, the obsessive director set his sights on Napoleon. Tens of thousands of index cards later, he waved the white flag

By Sam Wasson

Global Transmission Listen to music without borders! Get rid of your smartphone! Tell time with … silicon? And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

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The Hits Keep Coming After the success of Unorthodox, its co-creator Anna Winger returns to Netflix with Transatlantic, a black comedy about World War II–era refugees

By Alexandra Marshall

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Sounds Fishy Skin’s latest savior? Salmon sperm. Hold your nose, we’re going fishing

By April Long

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Sex, Drugs, and Bloody Murder The gruesome killing of an aspiring model by a rich American playboy sent shock waves through Swinging London and its infamous Chelsea Set

By John Glatt

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The Attention-Whore Index Is Elon Musk having trouble with his X? Did Melania Trump almost quit the White House? Is there a rift in the Sussex-verse? Who is demanding your attention?

By George Kalogerakis

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The Prisoner’s Song The Dazed and Confused and Boyhood director, Richard Linklater, discusses trading drama for documentary in his latest, a searing film about the American prison system

By Nicolas Rapold

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Lee Friedlander, Framed Collaborating with the cinematic photographer, the filmmaker Joel Coen is staging shows of Friedlander’s work on both coasts

By Michael Hainey

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Air Mail Diary

The Further Adventures of the Heir and the Spare And other strange news about these curious days …

By George Kalogerakis

Great Lives

Marina Cicogna The Italian countess transcended her gilded background to become Europe’s first major female film producer

By Bob Colacello

A Hole New World

The New Pay to Play Private golf clubs have always been symbols of wealth and exclusivity, but today there are more new ones than ever before, and they’re only getting more difficult to join

By William D. Cohan

It’s Only a Grocery Store And yet Erewhon has become the epicenter of Hollywood. See you at the salad bar?

By Devin Friedman

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Spite the Power When Larry David invented “the spite store,” he meant it as a joke. But today the concept seems to animate most of American politics

By Joel Stein

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Family Therapy

By Michael Knox Beran

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Shah Nah Nah

By Romesh Ratnesar

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You Can Call Me Al

By Bruce Handy

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Just Glow with It Only partly French and certainly not a sunscreen, Bain de Soleil nevertheless brought a whiff of St. Tropez to the masses

By Liana Schaffner

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What’s Up, Doc? If up to 10 percent of women have polycystic-ovary syndrome, why is it taking patients years to get diagnosed?

By Deborah Copaken

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Book Reviews

The Preppy Crack-Up

By Michael Knox Beran

Bohemian Groove

From Tree to Tree The hidden history of London’s most interesting—and complicated—family

By Ivana Lowell and Jonathan Moffat

Inside Story

Unusual Suspects The behind-the-scenes story of the making of Casablanca, which hit theaters 80 years ago

By Robert Matzen

Elaine May Speaks! A rare interview, over deviled eggs, at Sardi’s

By Roger Friedman

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New York

A Bro Is Born How Cory Michael Smith went from growing up in blue-collar Ohio to playing a tech billionaire in Mountainhead, the new movie from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong

Money Talks A peek inside Prince Albert’s finances paints a picture of a feeble monarch, browbeaten by the women in his life

Daria Kolomiec The Ukrainian D.J. and activist is using music and storytelling as a war cry

Stanley Kubrick’s Waterloo Having just tackled the end of the world and the mysteries of the universe, the obsessive director set his sights on Napoleon. Tens of thousands of index cards later, he waved the white flag

Global Transmission Listen to music without borders! Get rid of your smartphone! Tell time with … silicon? And more …

The Hits Keep Coming After the success of Unorthodox, its co-creator Anna Winger returns to Netflix with Transatlantic, a black comedy about World War II–era refugees

Sounds Fishy Skin’s latest savior? Salmon sperm. Hold your nose, we’re going fishing

Sex, Drugs, and Bloody Murder The gruesome killing of an aspiring model by a rich American playboy sent shock waves through Swinging London and its infamous Chelsea Set

The Attention-Whore Index Is Elon Musk having trouble with his X? Did Melania Trump almost quit the White House? Is there a rift in the Sussex-verse? Who is demanding your attention?

The Prisoner’s Song The Dazed and Confused and Boyhood director, Richard Linklater, discusses trading drama for documentary in his latest, a searing film about the American prison system

Lee Friedlander, Framed Collaborating with the cinematic photographer, the filmmaker Joel Coen is staging shows of Friedlander’s work on both coasts

The Further Adventures of the Heir and the Spare And other strange news about these curious days …

Marina Cicogna The Italian countess transcended her gilded background to become Europe’s first major female film producer

The New Pay to Play Private golf clubs have always been symbols of wealth and exclusivity, but today there are more new ones than ever before, and they’re only getting more difficult to join

It’s Only a Grocery Store And yet Erewhon has become the epicenter of Hollywood. See you at the salad bar?

Spite the Power When Larry David invented “the spite store,” he meant it as a joke. But today the concept seems to animate most of American politics

Family Therapy

Shah Nah Nah

You Can Call Me Al

Just Glow with It Only partly French and certainly not a sunscreen, Bain de Soleil nevertheless brought a whiff of St. Tropez to the masses

What’s Up, Doc? If up to 10 percent of women have polycystic-ovary syndrome, why is it taking patients years to get diagnosed?

The Preppy Crack-Up

From Tree to Tree The hidden history of London’s most interesting—and complicated—family

Unusual Suspects The behind-the-scenes story of the making of Casablanca, which hit theaters 80 years ago

Elaine May Speaks! A rare interview, over deviled eggs, at Sardi’s