New York
Finders, Keepers!
Sourcery at Work As luxury brands play hard to get, a new class of fashion insiders is working its magic to secure the season’s most coveted pieces
Toy Story
Block Head Nathan Sawaya left his Wall Street law firm to play with Lego. Now his painstaking brick creations sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars
Society
A Stylish Entrance After a three-year hiatus, le Bal des Débutantes returns to the Shangri-La Paris hotel
Tempest in a Martini Glass
Owning the Lits Fringe scholars have long argued that Shakespeare wasn’t really Shakespeare. So why has it suddenly become an article of faith among young conservatives?
Highlight
Spring Migration The Ghanian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey brings an iteration of his “Afrogallonism” series to the Venice Architecture Biennale
It Girl Diaries
The Fantastic Ms. Fox Julia Fox’s life has been filled with sex, drugs, and Kanye West. Unbowed and unashamed, she’s now taking on motherhood with the same riotous spirit
Russia’s Wild Card
Wagnerian Army Why is Prigozhin’s Russian mercenary force named after Hitler’s favorite 19th-century German composer?
Small Talk
Where Have You Gone, Bill de Blasio? New York City’s former mayor decided not to run for governor, maybe because he had these losers behind him
Director’s Cut In the 1970s, Stanley Kubrick fought to block the publication of The Magic Eye, a book lightly critical of his films. Now, it’s finally getting published
