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A Life Less Ordinary One Fine Morning stars Léa Seydoux as a woman seeking to balance her everyday obligations with a passionate affair. Its director, Mia Hansen-Løve, tells how the film came to be

By Nicolas Rapold

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Hats Off

Suffering with Style A brief history of the Borsalino—from Al Capone to Indiana Jones, Bogart to Gatsby

By Sam Kashner

Books

The Geography of Hope

By Pico Iyer

Inspector Gadget

Felicitous Fixtures The best iPhone yet; a litter box that will make you phone home; a “comfort bird” made of rubber; and more

By Jonathan Margolis

The Adventures of Sir Percy On the eve of his 97th birthday, Hilary Knight, the artist behind the Eloise picture books, introduces a new character: Sir Percy, a human-size frog!

illustrations by Hilary Knight

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The Judgment of David Solomon The Goldman Sachs C.E.O.’s friendship with the controversial property developer Mike Meldman raises questions about his commitment to separating business from pleasure

By William D. Cohan

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Little Myth Perfect Despite ghostwriting 12 books, recording a weekly podcast with half a million listeners, and raising two sons, Elise Loehnen—Gwyneth’s former right-hand woman at Goop—felt inadequate and incomplete

By Megan Agnew

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A Frenchman with a Cause

By Osman Can Yerebakan

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The Cult of Leto He has acted in everything from American Psycho to House of Gucci. Now Jared Leto stands accused of impropriety by nine women

By Elena Clavarino

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Murder in Fairfield County Jennifer Dulos is dead. Her husband and presumed murderer, Fotis Dulos, killed himself, leaving his mistress, Michelle Troconis, to face justice

By Rich Cohen

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Tuscany on the Thames Started as a lunch canteen for the architects upstairs, Ruthie Rogers’s River Cafe has shaped The Way We Eat Now—and launched the careers of countless chefs

By Mark Rozzo

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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?

By Errol Morris

Landing Gear

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

By Jonathan Margolis

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

By Alex Belth

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

By Ash Carter

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

By Peter Osnos

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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?

By Charles V. Bagli

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

By Judith Newman

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Wasn’t It a Long Way Down?

By David Yaffe

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A Grand Old Party Donald Trump Jr.’s new Georgetown members’ club, Executive Branch, caters to the MAGA elite, with fine wines, R.F.K. Jr.–approved cuisine, and complete privacy from liberals

By Maura Judkis

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

By Linda Wells

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Technology

Fruits of Their Labor Apple’s latest round of product updates, including the Liquid Glass design, may be irritating to users at first, but they are the sort of changes that keep the company at the top of the technological heap

By Jonathan Margolis

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 …

By Linda Wells

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

By S. P. Murphy

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

By George Kalogerakis

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