April 6, 2024
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BAD ODDS

Online betting has taken the sports world by storm, generating billions for state governments, professional leagues, and gambling companies. It’s also spawned a new generation of addicts …

CHASING RAINBOWS

Gen Z–ers are identifying as bisexual en masse. Is this about their sexual proclivities, their political inclinations … or just the result of being raised on the Internet? …

DÉJÀ GOOP

Goop has ended up on the wrong side of innumerable jokes, but many of its practices—from intermittent fasting to meditation—are now mainstream. Was Gwyneth Paltrow right all along? …

NIGHTMARE ON THE NASDAQ

William D. Cohan wades through the financial train wreck that lies behind—and ahead of—Trump’s vitriolic social-media micro-platform, Truth Social, and its staggering stock-market valuation …

HOLLYWOOD ENDING

Woody Allen doesn’t care about cancel culture, or so he tells Sam Wasson in a wide-ranging interview about Annie Hall, the future, and whether his new movie will be his last …

GOOD LORD!

The case of the small-town Spanish priest who was arrested for his part in a Viagra-meets-Grindr scandal is just the latest in a string of startlingly unchaste acts—sex parties included—among the Holy Order …

THE HOT SEAT

Five years after Prince Andrew’s infamous BBC interview—no, he never had anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein; yes, he most definitely is incapable of sweating—a Netflix adaptation is hitting the screen …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Could artisanal cheese be the next Japanese whiskey? … Linda Wells investigates the golden age of hair extensions … Alex Garland’s Civil War depicts America coming apart the day after tomorrow … a wine tour through northwestern Argentina … this month’s best mystery books are here … Who is this week’s biggest Attention Whore? …

But First …
Issue No. 247

The View from Here How identifying as bisexual became a political bumper sticker for Gen Z

By Kat Rosenfield
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
The Grifted Age

Ticker Time Bomb Donald Trump’s “media company” was a laughingstock until it debuted on the NASDAQ as an actual stock. Now Wall Street is about to learn the truth about Truth Social, the meme stock

By William D. Cohan
Photo Illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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A Whole New Ball Game

Gambling’s Last Frontier How online sports betting took over the lives and livelihoods of young people across the country—and turned many of them into addicts

By Jack Sullivan
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Air Supply

Way Out West

This week, AIR SUPPLY tips a hat to the open range with a pioneering roundup of everything you need—from firestarters and a fringed jacket to cowboy-inspired fragrances—to feel at home in the wild, wild West
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Photo: Glasshouse Images/Alamy (Cooper)
Guest Edit

My Favorite Things The acclaimed minimalist and former Calvin Klein creative director spotlights his thoughtful signatures, from Brazilian furniture to the shoes he wears no matter the occasion

By Francisco Costa
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Photo: Weston Wells (Costa)
Beauty and Wellness

Eye of the Beholder One of Hollywood’s best-kept secrets? There’s no hair there. Our chronically curious beauty-and-wellness guru investigates the rich universe of extensions, which is making those lush locks possible

By Linda Wells
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Small Talk
Modern Times

The Unbearable Lightness of Gwyneth With her uncanny ability to popularize fringe fads, Gwyneth Paltrow became the world’s most talked about health-and-beauty guru. Let the haters hate—she’s too busy meditating

By Polly Vernon
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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index J. K. Rowling is spoiling for a fight, Prince Andrew is hiding in plain sight, and Donald Trump is not sounding quite right. Plus, the strangest news from around the world

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Small Talk
Lapsed Catholics

Fast Times at San Sebastian Inside the Viagra-dealing-priest scandal that rocked a sleepy Spanish town

By Elena Clavarino
Photo Illustration By Chop Choppish Shop
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French Exit

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

By Sam Wasson
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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?

By Stuart Heritage
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Best
SLEEP Tekla Some go to Copenhagen for Noma, others for Tekla. The sustainable-fabric company, founded in 2017 by former Acne Studios hand… WATCH Local Hero It’s rare that offbeat 80s movies hold up. Even the great John Hughes pictures have moments that seem ill-advised in retrospect… EXPLORE Wooden City Last month, Isaac Rangaswami launched his new Substack, Wooden City, as a spin-off to his enormously popular… LISTEN Scamfluencers Each week, Scamfluencers hosts Scaachi Koul and Sarah Hagi take on a new scam, plot, hoax, or ploy, each one juicier than… READ 2054 Many of us are searching for a way to skip through 2024, and the new novel 2054 is the ideal solution. Co-written by Elliot Ackerman,… WEAR Wiggy Kit ’Tis the season when we can no longer stomach a winter coat, but the weather is not quite cooperative enough for a summer… SLEEP Tekla Some go to Copenhagen for Noma, others for Tekla. The sustainable-fabric company, founded in 2017 by former Acne Studios hand… WATCH Local Hero It’s rare that offbeat 80s movies hold up. Even the great John Hughes pictures have moments that seem ill-advised in retrospect… EXPLORE Wooden City Last month, Isaac Rangaswami launched his new Substack, Wooden City, as a spin-off to his enormously popular… LISTEN Scamfluencers Each week, Scamfluencers hosts Scaachi Koul and Sarah Hagi take on a new scam, plot, hoax, or ploy, each one juicier than… READ 2054 Many of us are searching for a way to skip through 2024, and the new novel 2054 is the ideal solution. Co-written by Elliot Ackerman,… WEAR Wiggy Kit ’Tis the season when we can no longer stomach a winter coat, but the weather is not quite cooperative enough for a summer…
Food

The Big Cheese An artisanal-cheese revolution is quietly afoot in Japan. Could it become the next Japanese whiskey?

By Harry Seymour
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Listen

Lunch with Michael Mann On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the Ferrari director and action-film master discusses the importance of surrounding oneself with strong characters, writing Heat 2, and how Miami Vice defined a decade

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From the Archives

From Radical to Dame and Back Again The photographer Ki Price’s portraits of Vivienne Westwood pay homage to Britain’s punk poster child turned couture designer in celebration of her birthday

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Vivienne Westwood, photographed by Ki Price on a beach in Wales to protest fracking across the United Kingdom.
Westwood striking outside the London headquarters of INEOS, Europe’s top ethylene producer.
A model posing backstage at Westwood’s Autumn-Winter 2022/23 show in Poole, U.K.
Top, Westwood during London Fashion Week in 2016; above, with her husband, Andreas Kronthaler, reviewing looks during Paris Fashion Week.
The model Irina Shayk in an Autumn-Winter 2023/24 Vivienne Westwood dress in Paris.
Behind the scenes of a 2016 fashion show at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
Cora Corré, center, Westwood’s granddaughter, with other models during Paris Fashion Week in 2023.
Top, Kronthaler and Westwood at the London launch of her first memoir; above, driving a tank to David Cameron’s home in an anti-fracking protest.
A model backstage at the Vivienne Westwood show during London Fashion Week in 2016.
Bella Hadid walking the runway at Westwood’s Spring-Summer 2020 presentation in Paris.
Westwood at a protest in Lancashire, U.K. A piece of paper hanging from her necklace reads, “Too fast to live, too young to die.”
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Film

Divided We Fail Alex Garland’s Civil War hurtles through the ravaging violence and chilling anomie of a Disunited States

By Michael Sragow
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Books
Celia McGee On

Fi: A Memoir of My Son

by Alexandra Fuller
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Lisa Henricksson On

This Month’s Best Mystery Books

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Small Talk
“Oh, Jeff, you swore this wasn’t a podcast.”
“Oh, Jeff, you swore this wasn’t a podcast.”
Listen

What Woody Allen Told Me On this week’s podcast, Sam Wasson takes us inside his conversation with the writer-director

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A Place in the Sun

By Sarah Hyde

The Apollo Fountain sculpture at the Château de Versailles has finally returned from its first serious restoration in 100 years, just in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics, when the royal grounds will host the equestrian competitions of jumping and dressage, as well as para-equestrian events and the five modern pentathlon tournaments. READ ON

A detail of the 35-ton Apollo Fountain.

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Travel

Drinking and Driving Some of the world’s best wines are now being produced in Argentina’s Salta region. And discovering them makes for a spectacular road trip

By Stanley Stewart
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Close-up

Isabella Bowie With her shoe company, Izie, the young designer has her sights set on reviving the high heel

By Elena Clavarino
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Small Talk
“Be prepared to issue a public whoopsie.”
“Be prepared to issue a public whoopsie.”
View With a Room

Ooohs and Oz After being destroyed by wildfires, in 2020, Kangaroo Island’s Southern Ocean Lodge is once again welcoming guests to this remote corner of Australia

By Mary Lussiana
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The Seasoned Traveler

Gisele Bündchen The supermodel and newly minted cookbook author reveals her travel routine

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Ruby Wright’s Sketchbook
In silence, I draw the violence of the sculptures in the V&A’s Medieval & Renaissance Galleries.
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