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The Attention Whore of the Year Awards Elon? Tucker? Joe? Whom did you choose as the biggest braggart and blowhard of 2024?

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index New Jersey is to corruption as Elon Musk is to reproduction. Plus, all the strangest news from around the world

Queen’s Gambit

Sloane Alone Turns out there’s no etiquette guide on how to behave when your wife leaves you to become the Queen of England


Publish and Perish

Swan Song Truman Capote’s social suicide by novel: the story behind the new mini-series Feud: Capote vs. the Swans

Future Times

A Brief History of Yuval Noah Harari “We should never underestimate human stupidity,” warns the author of Sapiens, the runaway best-seller and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books

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Artist in Residence

Estates of Confusion A new book celebrates the madcap magic of artist Hunt Slonem’s homes

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Lauren Sánchez is inescapable, Kristi Noem is inexcusable, and Melania Trump is invisible

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Highlight

Along Came Polly Polly Jean Harvey, the fearless singer and two-time Mercury Prize winner known as PJ Harvey, blends her recent work with 90s classics on her European summer tour

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Holding Court A look at the glamorous and long-forgotten life of the 1930s tennis star Alice Marble

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Great Lives

Ada “Bricktop” Smith The forgotten queen of Jazz Age Montmartre

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Travel

Look and Sea The English coastal town of Margate is transforming into an epicenter of cool. And Tracey Emin is only partly responsible

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Music

The Making of Beyoncé How the “Crazy in Love” singer, currently traveling the world on her Cowboy Carter tour, became more powerful than the music industry

Social Studies

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


Television

Fifty Shades of Britain In England, Channel 4 has brought the dating show to uncharted territory by featuring naked contestants

The Biopic Woman

Good Material, Bad Girl A much-troubled film about Madonna is finally in the works—but can it survive its subject’s notorious perfectionism and boorish manners?

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Yanks on the Loose

Great Scot! Americans, making up a growing share of St. Andrews’s student body, are transforming the quiet university once attended by William and Kate into a beer-pong-playing college campus

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A Town Divided

There Goes the Neigh-borhood! In Florida, old-guard horse-lovers and new-money developers are duking it out for the soul of Wellington

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Tempest in a Martini Glass

Owning the Lits Fringe scholars have long argued that Shakespeare wasn’t really Shakespeare. So why has it suddenly become an article of faith among young conservatives?

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Skin in the Game

Touch and Glow Is the humble safflower the next big miracle worker in skin care? We go to Japan with a hope and a prayer

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Elements of Style

Life After Lagerfeld Lady Amanda Harlech spent decades working alongside fashion’s most obsessive fixture. So what’s next?

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Travel

Malta’s Day in the Sun With Italy and Greece overrun by tourists, the English-speaking Mediterranean island that Queen Elizabeth once called home is a suitably low-key—and culture-packed—alternative

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Sweat, Lies, and Videotape

Interview with a Dumpster Fire Prince Andrew’s hilariously awful Jeffrey Epstein interview is being retold in a documentary, a mini-series, and a film. Can there ever be too much of a good thing?

Film

The Rise and Rise of Ziggy Stardust Moonage Daydream is the far-out, maximalist documentary David Bowie would have wanted


Music

There’s Something About Harry Harry Styles is at the top of his game as musician, actor, and icon. And what’s not to love?