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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

Photography

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

Air Mail Diary

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

By George Kalogerakis

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

By Bob Colacello

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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

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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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A Look Back

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

Internal Affairs

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

Book Reviews

The Preppy Crack-Up

By Michael Knox Beran

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

By Ivana Lowell and Jonathan Moffat

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

By Robert Matzen

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The Man Behind the Monster The little-known story of the Harvard professor whose sadistic experiments may have helped transform Ted Kaczynski into the Unabomber

By Rachel Corbett

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

By Roger Friedman

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Muscle Memory

By Max Carter

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Mona Pirnot The playwright dishes on how she got David Greenspan to act in her one-man show about, well, David Greenspan

By Rhoda Feng

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Stephen Sondheim’s Phantom Menace As a new Sondheim revue opens on Broadway, producer Cameron Mackintosh reflects on their friendship—and on Sondheim’s rivalry with Andrew Lloyd Webber

By Michael Riedel

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Troubled Skies

Buckle Up! It wasn’t all that long ago that British Airways was known as “the world’s favorite airline.” Today, some Brits would rather take EasyJet

By Mark Ellwood

Art-World Squabbles

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Un-Maintenance Steve McQueen’s granddaughter is suing for ownership of a $68 million Jackson Pollock painting, which the actor allegedly swapped for a motorcycle that never appeared

By Sarah Cascone

Film Classics

A Lotta Ins, a Lotta Outs, a Lotta What-Have-Yous The origin—and immortality—of The Big Lebowski

By Josh Karp

Weathering the Storm The Pulitzer Prize–winning author and critic Michiko Kakutani discusses disruptive politics, the technology of the future, and her new book, The Great Wave

By Jim Kelly

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New York

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

The Man Behind the Monster The little-known story of the Harvard professor whose sadistic experiments may have helped transform Ted Kaczynski into the Unabomber

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

Muscle Memory

Mona Pirnot The playwright dishes on how she got David Greenspan to act in her one-man show about, well, David Greenspan

Stephen Sondheim’s Phantom Menace As a new Sondheim revue opens on Broadway, producer Cameron Mackintosh reflects on their friendship—and on Sondheim’s rivalry with Andrew Lloyd Webber

Buckle Up! It wasn’t all that long ago that British Airways was known as “the world’s favorite airline.” Today, some Brits would rather take EasyJet

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Un-Maintenance Steve McQueen’s granddaughter is suing for ownership of a $68 million Jackson Pollock painting, which the actor allegedly swapped for a motorcycle that never appeared

A Lotta Ins, a Lotta Outs, a Lotta What-Have-Yous The origin—and immortality—of The Big Lebowski

Weathering the Storm The Pulitzer Prize–winning author and critic Michiko Kakutani discusses disruptive politics, the technology of the future, and her new book, The Great Wave