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The View from Here Silvio Berlusconi, the lying, womanizing, orange-tinted former Italian P.M. who died this week, resembled Trump, but not as much as they say. For one thing, he had charm

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Surprise Ending When former Simon & Schuster C.E.O. Richard Snyder died last week, he left two things in his wake: a legacy as a difficult but revolutionary publisher, and a fourth wife who wanted it all

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Rocket Woman The most powerful politician in North Korea might not be “little rocket man” but his gatekeeper, chief adviser, and sibling, Kim Yo-jong

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My Favorite Things Gabriella Khalil, the creative director behind Grand Cayman’s Palm Heights hotel, shares her choice discoveries for days both at home and on Caribbean escapes

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Prince of Wails Harry spends hours and hours on the stand yet fails to provide any evidence that his phone was hacked during his $12.5 million therapy session

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The Bookman Goeth Nobody read more—or faster—than Robert Gottlieb

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The Attention-Whore Index—Grand-Master Edition! Sometimes you have to bow to the experts. For all Harry’s wails and Trump’s moans, the real masters of neediness can be found on Instagram

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Bad Girls’ Book Club Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert cancels her latest novel because it’s set in Siberia. What’s next? Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky removed from our libraries?

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Watch Arnold It’s certainly appropriate that a docuseries about the ambidextrous life of Arnold Schwarzenegger would top out at three hours… Pamper Raquel There’s no wedding on my horizon (not now, nor ever), but I’ll take a blushing bride’s healthy complexion any day, especially if it’s at the hands of… Sparkle Roxanne First The necks of many stylish Londoners are adorned with the personalized beaded necklacesby Roxanne First. Now the jewelry… Wear Emporio Sirenuse We are approaching that time of year when every dress seems to be either white or floral. Resist the urge. Instead, take a look at this… Rent Pickle This isn’t just another Rent the Runway app. It’s much more of a “rent your friend’s clothes” app. While the former might be perfect if… Shop Layla On Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, there exists a store so special, I almost don’t want to tell you about it. Down a few steps from the sidewalk… Watch Arnold It’s certainly appropriate that a docuseries about the ambidextrous life of Arnold Schwarzenegger would top out at three hours… Pamper Raquel There’s no wedding on my horizon (not now, nor ever), but I’ll take a blushing bride’s healthy complexion any day, especially if it’s at the hands of… Sparkle Roxanne First The necks of many stylish Londoners are adorned with the personalized beaded necklacesby Roxanne First. Now the jewelry… Wear Emporio Sirenuse We are approaching that time of year when every dress seems to be either white or floral. Resist the urge. Instead, take a look at this… Rent Pickle This isn’t just another Rent the Runway app. It’s much more of a “rent your friend’s clothes” app. While the former might be perfect if… Shop Layla On Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, there exists a store so special, I almost don’t want to tell you about it. Down a few steps from the sidewalk…

Eye of the Beholder Baby got back? There’s yet another area of the body that requires your attention, and professional intervention. Meet the entrepreneurs and surgeons who are focusing exclusively on improving your posterior

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Criminals Yesterday, Influencers Today From O. J. Simpson to Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, Amanda Knox to the Tinder Swindler, ex-cons are social media’s new favorite thing

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O Father, Where Art Thou? Ignoring paternal advice can have long-standing consequences

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Written in the Stars The seven-time Oscar-nominated writer-director Wes Anderson has made the funniest, most heartfelt, and most poignant film of his career

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Kings of Time The watches of Philippe Dufour and François-Paul Journe are being praised across the world, selling for millions at auction, and inspiring a whole new generation of independent watchmakers

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Small Talk
“There’s no limit to what you can do with your life. Just look at me—I’m a chicken who ordered a beer.”

Lunch with Rita Wilson On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the actress and singer reveals what she learned about aging from Nora Ephron and Bruce Springsteen, how Melanie Griffith stayed warm in the 70s, and much more …

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A Flap over a Mop Some people tip their hairdresser. Boris Johnson gave his an M.B.E.

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Lipstick on the Pig After sitting empty for two years, the tarnished West Village restaurant has been reborn as the Golden Swan

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Open Book

Freedom, According to Azzedine Alaïa and Arthur Elgort A dazzling new book celebrates the joyful, lively collaboration of a legendary designer and a master photographer

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Truth or Derrière? On this week’s podcast, Linda Wells explains how we find ourselves living in the Era of the Butt

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London’s cultural scene post-lockdown is wide awake, but a giant in Trafalgar Square is only now emerging from a long slumber: after a three-year renovation, the National Portrait Gallery reopens this month. Get ready for new entrances, new gallery spaces, the new Learning Centre, and the debut of a comprehensive re-hang of the gallery’s collection. Not only will Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, and the Brontë sisters (with their poor painted-out column of a brother) be back, thank heavens, they have new company on the walls. Photographs from the gallery’s collection of 250,000 prints will be newly integrated into what curator Clare Freestone calls “the whole story of portraiture in Britain”—as told by the gallery and addressing histories of empire, women, protest, fashion, street, and pop culture in innovative ways. READ ON

For the National Portrait Gallery’s first show in three years, photos by the British photographer Madame Yevonde, including this 1936 portrait of Vivien Leigh, go on display.

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A Seat at the Table At Table, in Paris, the self-taught chef Bruno Verjus forgoes French fine-dining traditions—and cooked butter—to serve up a modern tasting menu

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Grace Edwards The young actress steps into Wes Anderson’s pastel world to play a young botanist in Asteroid City

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The Phantom of Jacobus Vrel Paris sees the opening of the first-ever exhibition devoted to a mysterious 17th-century Dutch artist whose works were long attributed to Vermeer

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Book Reviews

The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood’s Kings of Carnage

by Nick de Semlyen
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A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

by Mark O’Connell
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Yotam Ottolenghi The chef, restaurateur, and best-selling cookbook author reveals his travel routine

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Not just a parade of love, but one of solidarity and resistance as well. For the first time ever, the Human Rights Campaign has declared a “state of emergency” for L.G.B.T.Q.+ Americans due to rising hate, threats, and multiple legislative assaults around the country. Our community and our allies have to be stronger and louder in the face of these attacks. It’s time to let our queer children know that, as President Joe Biden recently put it in a Pride celebration at the White House, “you are loved, you are heard, you are understood, and you belong.”
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Issue No. 205
June 17, 2023
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Issue No. 205
June 17, 2023

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