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Pop Goes the Lichtenstein The actor, writer, musician, director, and comedian (running out of space!) Steve Martin remembers his friend Roy Lichtenstein, the Pop-art master whose centenary is being honored with an exhibition curated by Irving Blum

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Head Cases

What a Racket! Don’t keep your eye entirely on the ball—the players at the U.S. Open have spectacular hair, thanks to a top-secret salon

The Art of Deceit

Fake It Till You Make It He can mimic both Caravaggio and Rembrandt, and his art has been displayed in national galleries and royal households. But are Tony Tetro’s crimes also the sign of a more innocent age?


Eight Questions

Jess Walter’s Rules for Writing Eight Questions with the author, who discusses inspiration, his process, and the moment he realized Obama was a fan

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The View from Here Trump has pardoned thousands of people in return for barely disguised bribes. But in Jho Low, the flamboyant fugitive behind the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB fraud, he may have hooked his biggest fish yet

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A Musical Life

Tom Lehrer Doesn’t Want to Talk to You How did one of the world’s greatest satirists nearly fade into obscurity?

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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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But First …

The View from Here When Martin Amis stopped being the Mick Jagger of British fiction

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Close-up

Ronan Day-Lewis The 27-year-old painter directs his first feature film, Anemone, casting his father, Daniel Day-Lewis, in his first role since retiring in 2017

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suite harmony

Where Bob Dylan Met the Beatles From the Savoy in London to an airport hotel in Queens, the little-known story of the rooms where the musical giants forged a surprisingly close bond

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Landing Gear

Sound Engineering Tuck into ChatGPT! Listen up for the sweet sounds of Japan! Can you say domo arigato, Mr. Roboto? And more

French Exit

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


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

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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 …

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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

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?


Books

Songwriters Got No Reason to Live

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

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