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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

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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

Great Lives

Tom Lehrer A mordant Harvard math whiz who used musical satire to skewer the Establishment and pioneer a new kind of nonconformist comedy


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

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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The Dark Arts

A Forgotten Master of Pulp Fiction The only thing more noir than the work of writer Cornell Woolrich may have been his own life

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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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Great Lives

Michel David-Weill For 25 years, the French-born investment banker directed Wall Street’s most prestigious firm with the touch of an enlightened monarch

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Literary Matters

Gary Fisketjon’s Next Act Fired from Knopf in 2019, the literary Brat Packer and editor of everyone from Cormac McCarthy to Donna Tartt picks up his green mark-up pen again

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Comeback Queen

The Runaway Bride Designer Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein’s ex-wife, has managed a spirited return, alongside her Oscar-nominated boyfriend, Adrien Brody

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Washington Confidential

Passion on the Potomac A new book hints at an affair between Jackie Kennedy and Robert McNamara spanning J.F.K.’s death, the Vietnam War, and several marriages

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Courting Disaster

Judge Not Far from being an institutionalist, Chief Justice John Roberts has rubber-stamped Trump’s most authoritarian orders—and sided with the president against the very legal system he is supposed to protect

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Comedic Relief

Soaringly Sozzled Onstage Withnail and I is one of the most beloved—and bibulous—British films of all time. But can this bucolic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas be properly adapted into a play?

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Books

What Women Want In an interview with Three Women’s Lisa Taddeo, the author discusses grief, vengeance, her new story collection, and, of course, women

Great Lives

Françoise Gilot Picasso’s muse and lover who left him after 10 abusive years continued a successful career as an artist and memoirist in her own right


Great Lives

Françoise Gilot Picasso’s muse and lover who left him after 10 abusive years continued a successful career as an artist and memoirist in her own right

Annals of Delusion

Rudy Then and Rudy Now Rudy Giuliani’s fall from respected New York mayor to Trump consigliere is well documented. But the cracks in his moral makeup were there from the outset

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