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The Downtown Set
A list of the 50 young New Yorkers who are remaking Lower Manhattan in their own image
Lady in Motion
After the unexpected success of Anne Glenconner’s juicy memoir Lady in Waiting, the 90-year-old decided to write a sequel
Brush with the Devil
Lucian Freud’s “Slave”
David Dawson was the artist’s fixer, confidant, and gofer—and he still lives in his master’s house
The “Oh, Boy” Network
School for Scoundrels
Eton College has long played an outsize role in Great Britain’s public life. It’s where some of the country’s most prominent figures were schooled in the art of dissembling
Adventures in Journalism
Assignment: Sinatra
Harold Hayes decides that Esquire will be proceeding with or without the cooperation of Sinatra—whom Talese trails to Las Vegas
Fiction
Joining “the Firm”
An aspiring journalist from New Delhi gets a private tour of Kensington Palace—his new girlfriend’s childhood home
Crime and Crunching It
A Very British Scandal
It was one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history—but it took a TV show to get the government to act
Great Lives
Reinaldo Herrera
An international arbiter of style whose manners were matched by his joie de vivre and loyalty
Across the Jillyverse
Publishing her 18th novel at 86 years old, novelist Jilly Cooper is as prolific—and ready to talk about sex—as ever
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
Modern Times
Devil Baby
Cocaine killed my ex-husband. Now fentanyl—the worst drug the world has ever seen—has our daughter in its grip
The King of Lies
Separating fact from fiction in the latest, heavily fabricated season of The Crown
