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French Exit

“All the Romance of Filmmaking Is Gone” Woody Allen on Paris, cancel culture, retirement, and “the whole mortality question”

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Vanity Case

The Fall of Man What happens when a man who banks on his looks starts to lose them? Boo-hoo!

Inspector Gadget

Landing Gear Zen is the head that wears this crown; videoconferencing hardware with Hollywood ambitions; a wildlife-observation device for the birds; and more


Landing Gear

Swinging into Spring An electric Mini that will make you feel like a Beatle! Leica’s latest camera will make a professional snapper out of you yet! Folding headphones you can’t afford to pass up! And more …

Photography

Always in Fashion A major retrospective highlights the many sides of famed photographer William Klein

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Inconvenient Truths

Roanoke’s Requiem A grassroots effort attempts to make sense of a heartbreaking cancer surge among Roanoke College’s young alumni

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Country Pursuits

Luck, Be This Lady Carole Bamford has turned Daylesford into not only a posh grocery store but a signifier for a certain way of life

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Balkan Glitz

Jared Does Albania Why is the president’s son-in-law pursuing a multi-billion-dollar development deal on an uninhabited—and uninhabitable—former Cold War base?

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Inside Story

The Secret Life of Mondrian Unseen letters, gay lovers, a 30-minute kiss … a new biography pulls back the curtain on the elusive Dutch painter

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Inside Story

A Picture Worth a Thousand Sins Taken in her London home, it was the photo that became synonymous with Ghislaine Maxwell’s culpability. Why hasn’t the U.K. taken action against her?

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Illegally Blonde

The Grift, the Prince, and the Twist It seemed like Liza-Johanna Holgersson had crafted an elaborate and fake persona to win the hearts (and hopefully the wallets) of a number of well-off men. But she wasn’t the only one pretending to be something they weren’t. A shocking twist lies within this shifting tale of identity that turned both the writer’s life, and that of her editor, upside down


Beyond the Fringe

Legal Weasel Nerdy Harvard lawyer Ken Chesebro (Co-Conspirator 5) was a liberal until he got rich on Bitcoin and veered right, so much so that he advised Trump to use false electors to derail the 2020 election

The Planet

Private-Jet Paradox Wanna take mine or yours? Will the climate crisis ground the use of private planes or simply make the elite more secretive?

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Arts and Letters

She’s Got the Art World Sewn Up Lucy Sparrow has stitched herself into the front rank. Now she’s showing her most ambitious work yet

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Landing Gear

The Tale of the Tape A voice recorder that transcribes—and could fit in your wallet! A pop-up desk to help you keep your chin up! The world’s handsomest exercise bike! And more …

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Past is Prologue

Missionary Positions The Christian right spent millions to smear Dr. Mary Calderone, a 1960s sex-education activist. Now the issues Calderone campaigned for are under fire again—this time from the incoming Trump administration

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Artistic License

The Afterlife of Pablo Paloma Picasso, who is taking control of her father’s estate, on defending the artist’s legacy from revisionists

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Literary Muses

Of Course It Kills Them The secret inspiration for Ernest Hemingway’s greatest novel

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Polite Society

The Swan Who Was Spared The real reason Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, Truman Capote’s guest of honor at the Black and White Ball, was the only “swan” he didn’t betray

Books

Love and Let Die


Adventures in Publishing

The Truman Show For a young assistant at Random House in the summer of 1978, Friday afternoons meant one thing: babysitting Truman Capote

But First …

The View from Here A man who solves economic crises as opposed to creating them, Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, is the perfect foil for Donald Trump

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