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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

By Joseph Rodota

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Books

Love and Let Die

By Pico Iyer

The Music World

Lily Allen’s Revenge Era The star who redefined confessional pop—and aired the wreckage of her marriage on West End Girl—is now taking her show on the road

By Eleanor Halls

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

By Alexander Lobrano

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

By Lisa Van Dusen

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The Robin Hood of Art How did a British taxi driver abscond with a Goya masterpiece through a National Gallery toilet window? A new film starring Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent has the answer

By Martin Fletcher

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When the Art World Lost Its Mind (and Money) NFTs once promised to revolutionize creativity and commerce. Four years later, the market has collapsed, fortunes have vanished, and the art scene is still reckoning with what it all meant

By Chris Harvey

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High Noonan The Pulitzer Prize–winning political columnist Peggy Noonan discusses her note from Trump, the surprising reason why he is not a Neanderthal, and writing in Edmund Burke for president

By Jim Kelly

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Something About Them

By Max Carter

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Growing Up Gilman

By Joanne Kaufman

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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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Past is Prologue

War Crimes Sixty years ago, a Russian poet inspired the creation of a Holocaust memorial at Babi Yar, in Ukraine. This year, a Russian missile strike nearly destroyed it

By Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger

friend of the devil

Edge Lord Literary agent John Brockman knows everybody who’s anybody in science. Thanks to him, so did Jeffrey Epstein

By Sam Kahn

Lights Out!

Getting Into Bed With Cindy Crawford The supermodel and founder of Meaningful Beauty shares her nighttime routine

By Jeanne Malle

Pied-à-Terror! A new annual surcharge on New York’s luxury pieds-à-terre has the 1 percent crying robbery. But when has a tax ever actually driven the rich from Park Avenue?

By Michael Gross

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It’s RH’s World Restoration Hardware, the high-end housewares company that recently rebranded as RH, is on a mission to colonize luxury cities. In Aspen, residents are drawing the line

By Emilia Petrarca

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An American in Paris Wire acrobats, floating mobiles, wooden figures … Celebrating the centenary of Alexander Calder’s years living in the French capital, an exhibition presents more than 300 of his works

By Nicholas Fox Weber

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The Face in the Mirror James Corden’s chummy charm conquered America, but the United Kingdom isn’t so keen

By Barbara Ellen

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Beating the System When every studio in Hollywood passed on Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola—the most successful movie director on the planet—became an independent filmmaker

By Sam Wasson

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Hell on Wheels Thousands of confidential files leaked by a Tesla employee reveal noxious working conditions, flawed technology, and a delusional, unstable C.E.O.

By Oliver Moody

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For All Your Death-Defying Needs Whether you were Amelia Earhart, Ernest Hemingway, or a very hungover Clark Gable, the original Abercrombie & Fitch was the perfect store for adventurers of all stripes

By Henry R. Schlesinger

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Film

Medieval Chivalry for the Modern World Director Joe Wright’s new anti-musical musical adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac has shades of his own off-screen love triangle

By Ed Potton

Art and Commerce

Kahlo Incorporated How did Frida Kahlo go from being a little-known artist to a feminist icon to a global brand?

By Rosie Millard

Close-up

Jocelyn Bioh Ahead of the Broadway debut of her new play, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, the actress and playwright discusses why she infuses her stories with humor

By Paulina Prosnitz

So You Want to Be a Guru? Fabulously wealthy women are rebranding themselves as lifestyle gurus. Who’s buying it?

By Judith Newman

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