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Holy Smokes! A new generation of French women is smoking more cigarettes than ever before. Pour quoi?

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When Bezos Met Bridezilla An exclusive look inside Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s Venice wedding—zero-gravity Botox, diamanté candelabras, Dom Pérignon, and all


Dusk of the Ump Baseball umpires are on their way out. But what will players, coaches, and fans do if there’s nobody to yell at?

Japan’s Moment in the Sun From the thriving food scene to the vintage shopping to the manicured aesthetic—not to mention the weak yen—Japan is having a moment

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One Hundred Years of Gatsby Editions of The Great Gatsby—which achieved popularity only after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s death—abound, but the mysteries surrounding the Great American Novel endure

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Flower Power A Dior designer’s take on floral arrangements, a visual history of the rose, and a gardening guide by Martha Stewart … Ring in spring with three new coffee-table books

Positively 4th Street When New York was still called New Amsterdam, a former slave ran a farm on the very terrain that would become the Greenwich Village stomping ground of folk singers and Beat poets


Out of Africa Peter Godwin’s fourth memoir focuses on his mother, who refused to leave a continually ravaged Zimbabwe until she was nearly 80

Stephen Sondheim’s Phantom Menace As a new Sondheim revue opens on Broadway, producer Cameron Mackintosh reflects on their friendship—and on Sondheim’s rivalry with Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Live by Design Ahead of Milan’s Salone del Mobile furniture-and-design fair, AIR SUPPLY gathers a few exceptionally crafted wares that make life better

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Bare Facebook Liar Mark Zuckerberg has killed Meta’s fact-checking program, accusing it of political bias. One former fact-checker can’t believe it

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