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Emperor of the New Order How a promising young director gave up a comfortable life in Hollywood—and gained true creative freedom for a new generation of filmmakers. An exclusive excerpt from The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

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The Criminal Element

Londongrad’s Laundromat Kensington mansions and Premier League football clubs—how did London become the money-washing capital of the world?

Great Lives

Bruce McCall With his deadpan surrealism, superior wit, and perfect timing, the satirical artist and writer left an indelible mark on everything he touched, from National Lampoon to The New Yorker and Vanity Fair


Great Lives

Walter Mirisch Raised in the era of silent movies, the Some Like It Hot producer, whose films won 28 Oscars, started out as an usher in a New Jersey theater

Fifty Shades of Antiquity

A Cavalcade of Depravity Shakespearean actors, Penthouse Pets, 3,000 Roman costumes, 450 gallons of fake blood, and Gore Vidal. Was Caligula the most ambitious porno ever made—or the raunchiest historical epic?

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Film

Kevin Costner’s Post Apocalypse The Postman was meant to be the Oscar winner’s magnum opus—instead it became the tale of a superstar’s self-indulgence

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Film and Television

His Last Picture Show My Year with Peter Bogdanovich

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A Secret History

Devil’s Bargain A 2004 visit with the future Nobel laureate Alice Munro left me with a slightly uneasy feeling. Now I know why

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The Criminal Element

The Talented Dr. Gray As priceless heirlooms disappeared from the homes of Newport bluebloods and Georgetown ambassadors, Lawrence Gray remained above suspicion—and on the guest list

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Oral History

Furor over the Führer Jerry Lewis’s unfinished film, The Day the Clown Cried, was long considered the last word in Holocaust-related bad taste. And then along came Heil Honey I’m Home!, an I Love Lucy–like sitcom about Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun

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Travel

Discovering Genoa Formerly known as one of Europe’s grungiest port cities, Genoa is now welcoming travelers who seek an authentically Italian vacation

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Portfolio

The Downtown Set A list of the 50 young New Yorkers who are remaking Lower Manhattan in their own image

Domestic Terrorism

Death on the North Atlantic Nathan Carman allegedly killed his grandfather for cash. When that ran out, he took his mother out to sea. Only one of them came back


Weighty Issues

The Hunger Game Is fasting a longevity tool or a socially acceptable type of disordered eating? Over five long days, one brave soul investigates

Artistic License

Julian Schnabel’s Cutting Edge Despite commercial success and a body of work that now spans more than five decades, the artist is just as irritable and unimpressed as ever

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First Family

A First Lady on the Front Line Alongside her husband, Volodymyr, Olena Zelenska is a key voice in Ukraine, as the couple rally international support and highlight the atrocities of the Russian invasion

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But First …

The View from Here Jeffrey Sachs, the man once described as “the most important economist in the world,” has been saying some very strange things in some very peculiar venues

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Hollywood Whodunit

Follow the Ruby Red Slippers! The crazy tale of a career criminal’s theft of the shoes worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz—and the madcap, decades-long fight to get them back

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Film Classics

Sinatra in the Jungle On the 70th anniversary of Mogambo, John Ford’s 1950s adultery epic set in Africa, a behind-the-scenes look at its stars—Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, and Ava Gardner, married to Frank Sinatra at the time

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Crime and Scandal

Private Quarters Brant Lake Camp was warned about pedophiles in their midst. Why did the camp not act against them?

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The Hot Seat

A Very British Scandal-Maker Sam McAlister, the longtime BBC producer who persuaded Prince Andrew to do that car-crash interview, tells all

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Bedroom Politics


Motion Pictures

Lartigue on La Côte d’Azur In the early 30s, the photographer and playboy Jacques-Henri Lartigue took a job shooting a movie on the French Riviera. The film went nowhere—but Lartigue became a legend

Adventures in Journalism

Going After the Gonzo When the author was sent to visit Hunter S. Thompson—five months before Thompson shot himself—he found a writer trapped inside a legend

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