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Field Guide

Weird Science Are the people in Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal knowing participants—or guinea pigs in a mad behavioral experiment?

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Landing Gear

Status Symbols Earbuds that sound money! Send the Canada geese back to Green Acres! The strongest screen protector around! And more …

Film Classics

Annie Hall Before Annie Hall How Woody Allen and his team turned an unusable first cut into a love story for the ages—and one of the few comedies ever to win the Academy Award for best picture


Style and Substance

The Push Pin Attitude How the scrappy, ingenious founders of New York City’s Push Pin Studios revolutionized 20th-century graphic design—and left a lasting mark on the culture

Marriage, Washington–Style

Jimmy Carter The former president and his wife, Rosalynn, had a perfect marriage—then it almost collapsed when they collaborated on a book

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Real-Estate Wars

Bleak House, New York–Style For a quarter-century, artists, activists, and plutocrats have been battling over the future of a former public school in the East Village. Is the end finally in sight?

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Sex Education

Naughty by Nurture Can a two-hour MasterClass really reveal the secrets to the universe? Our fearless writer gets schooled

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Modern Times

All the Rage! On the East End of Long Island, pricey exercise classes aren’t providing any stress relief. Quite the opposite, in fact

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Beauty and Wellness

Eye of the Beholder How does a doctor out to heal wounds end up developing one of the most effective skin-care products on the market? Meet Augustinus Bader …

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Art

The Monroe Doctrine Marilyn Monroe has been the subject of thousands of magazine articles, dozens of full-length biographies, an opera, an Elton John song, and more. Now a 1964 Andy Warhol painting of the actress is set to become the world’s most valuable work of modern art

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Marriage, Internet-Style

No, That’s Not a Boom Mike in the Frame. That’s … Tommy How a grainy sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee jump-started the Web—and a Hulu mini-series

Hollywood Sounds

Changing His Tune For decades, Jeff Goldblum has been a beloved actor and a sex symbol. Now, at age 70, he’s also becoming a jazz pianist


Great Lives

Lance Morrow The courtly Time-magazine essayist who described the American Century with wit, outrage, and wry wisdom

But First …

The View from Here Trump’s model of political leadership? A cigar-chomping, baseball-bat-swinging, mobbed-up Brooklyn boss

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The Dining Scene

The Return of the King Following his exile from the beloved Wolseley, one of London’s top restaurateurs is coming back with three new projects

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East End Agonistes

A Downfall in Southampton They were an ambitious couple who had everything—looks, money, a glamorous life—until it all unraveled and left one of them dead

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Fab Four Confidential

Paul, John, George, Ringo, and Me My movie Let It Be chronicled the Beatles’ last concert—and got lost in the wake of their breakup. Now it’s returning to screens

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Landing Gear

Choral Relief A tool to keep your vocal cords as strong as Mick Jagger’s! Foliage that will help clear the air! Can ChatGPT help you with your holiday shopping? And more …

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Inspector Gadget

Landing Gear A pocket translator to help you speak for yourself; earbuds that encourage, rather than encumber, sleep; a charging cable that knows how to adapt; and more

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Landing Gear

Steaming Through Summer At long last, a worthy iPhone alternative! A suitcase to tranquilize tykes in flight! A steamer-cum-iron that won’t do you dirty! And more …

Landing Gear

Droning On The eye in the sky you’ve always dreamed of! Search-by-image software that beats out Google! A Breville coffee-maker that makes everything, from iced coffee to hot chocolate! And more …


The Last Picture Show

One Hundred Years of Avedon Ahead of Richard Avedon’s centennial exhibition, Derek Blasberg reflects on the man who revolutionized fashion photography, and the mark he left on the genre as a whole

Past is Prologue

From Anthem to Elegy Six gifted young poets signed up to fight in World War I. In their disillusionment, Michael Korda sees a cautionary tale for our time

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