Air Mail

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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Fakes, Nazis, and Fake Nazis When the art dealer Ezra Chowaiki was offered the deal of a lifetime, he found himself in a confounding world of counterfeits

By Ezra Chowaiki

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The Making of Hannah Montana On the show’s 20th anniversary, one zillennial goes behind the scenes of the Disney Channel juggernaut that launched a 13-year-old Miley Cyrus and captivated a generation

By Carolina de Armas

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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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Diary of a Southern Grande Dame Patricia Altschul—the richer-than-God, twice-divorced Charleston matriarch who inspired Parker Posey’s White Lotus character—tells all on her run-ins with royals, Trump, and America’s gilded circles

By Megan Agnew

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Arrested Development

The Real Housewives of Rikers Island On the heels of Taylor Frankie Paul’s Bachelorette blowup and Summer House’s own Scandoval, one writer goes inside the reality-TV franchise that puts them all to shame

By Valeriya Safronova

Books

Wasn’t It a Long Way Down?

By David Yaffe

Washington Confidential

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

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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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

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Bowie in Aspic From rejection letters to annotated Berlin menus, David Bowie saved it all. Now more than 90,000 artifacts are headed to the Victoria and Albert Museum, offering unprecedented insight into the Starman and his method

By Will Hodgkinson

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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

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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

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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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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

By Dan Cairns

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Lights Out!

Getting Into Bed with Kathy Hilton The Real Housewife reveals her nighttime routine in exquisite detail

By Linda Wells

Great Lives

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

By Roger Rosenblatt

But First …

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

By John Ganz

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

By Ed Cumming

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