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Who Is Gwyneth Paltrow’s Plastic Surgeon? On this week’s podcast, Linda Wells reveals all
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Gen Z’s Hot New Drug This week on the podcast, a closer look at kratom. Plus, would you pay $700 to eat some ants?
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Slow Pokes Young adults who came of age in the social-media era are dabbling with filler and Botox—but in different, and often contradictory, ways
The Restaurant Next Door
En Everlasting As New York says good-bye to En Japanese Brasserie, its owner looks back on 20 years spent serving—and partying late into the night with—everyone from Yoko Ono to Q-Tip, Lou Reed, and Martha Stewart
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India Ennenga and Sebastian Clark The duo sending pocket-size books—collaborations with artists and writers—to people around the world
Modern Times
The Great (Culture) War In 2023, while some cities celebrated femininity with Taylor Swift and Barbie, others pivoted toward angry country music. Do universal pop-culture trends even exist anymore?
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Animal Instinct A new film by the Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski offers a prescient look at mankind today, through the eyes of a sympathetic, non-human protagonist
