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The View from Here For too long, Big Tech has enjoyed freedom without responsibility

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Eurovision Gets Serious For decades, the international pop contest was a source of harmless fun for millions. This year, people are bracing for violence

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Paul, John, George, Ringo, and Me My movie Let It Be chronicled the Beatles’ last concert—and got lost in the wake of their breakup. Now it’s returning to screens

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Simone Bodmer-Turner’s Favorite Things Ceramicist and furniture designer Simone Bodmer-Turner likes Aesop room spray, Noguchi lamps and Laura Manoogian pants at home

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Eye of the Beholder In Marie Antoinette, Lost in Translation, and Priscilla, Sofia Coppola relies on beauty—bouffants, lipsticks, lashes—to create her characters. Now she brings her makeup obsession to reality

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Small Talk
“When life gives you lemons, shoot them.”

The Attention-Whore Index Harry and Meghan are back in the spotlight, Kristi Noem shoots a puppy, and Donald Trump is discontented in court. Plus, the strangest news from around the world

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The Fall of the House of Astor (Revisited) A posthumous memoir from the son of New York society’s departed queen offers a self-serving perspective on an infamous scandal

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Lunch with Jeff Goldblum The actor and jazz musician extols the virtues of having a life outside of Hollywood and praises good luck on this week’s episode of Table for Two

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Morphine, Booze, and Roaring Brian Cox, Succession’s raging paterfamilias, takes on a Eugene O’Neill classic alongside a dazzling Patricia Clarkson

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VISIT Van Cleef & Arpels The glass, polished-brass, and granite storefronts on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue just became a lot more colorful with Van Cleef & LOOK Our First 100 Years Founded in Stoke-on-Trent 100 years ago by a father-and-son-in-law duo determined to craft the perfect waxed-leather jackets for… LIGHT Diptyque Verlet, the French coffee company headquartered on the Rue Saint-Honoré, has been churning out delicately roasted beans… SHOP Sense of Lake At AIR MAIL, we tend to enjoy top-notch hotel gift shops more than, well, the hotels themselves. This is especially true of… READ Vivienne Westwood A to Z Before becoming a pioneer of punk fashion, Vivienne Westwood spent a few years working as a primary-… WEAR Connolly A few years ago, I bought a classic Mackintosh jacket, and it was almost completely perfect—from its length to its color to its… VISIT Van Cleef & Arpels The glass, polished-brass, and granite storefronts on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue just became a lot more colorful with Van Cleef & LOOK Our First 100 Years Founded in Stoke-on-Trent 100 years ago by a father-and-son-in-law duo determined to craft the perfect waxed-leather jackets for… LIGHT Diptyque Verlet, the French coffee company headquartered on the Rue Saint-Honoré, has been churning out delicately roasted beans… SHOP Sense of Lake At AIR MAIL, we tend to enjoy top-notch hotel gift shops more than, well, the hotels themselves. This is especially true of… READ Vivienne Westwood A to Z Before becoming a pioneer of punk fashion, Vivienne Westwood spent a few years working as a primary-… WEAR Connolly A few years ago, I bought a classic Mackintosh jacket, and it was almost completely perfect—from its length to its color to its…

Fifty Shades of Romantasy How a genre fusing romance and fantasy—replete with kinky elves—took over best-seller lists and women’s nightstands everywhere

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Taking Orders Nothing prepared a Hacks co-creator for Hollywood quite like working as a waitress

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Who’s Afraid of the Internet Novel? The latest wave of fictions attempting to capture life online is more damaged and dissociative than ever before

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Baby Reindeer Games The hit Netflix show about stalking has bled into real life as social-media sleuths hound—and threaten—the actual people the story is based on

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Noem Chompski Other potential Trump vice-presidential picks now that Kristi Noem has shot herself in the foot

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Books

This Strange Eventful History

by Claire Messud
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The Wife That History Forgot A new discovery sheds fresh light on Alice Hathaway Lee, Theodore Roosevelt’s first love, who was largely written off as inconsequential in the president’s life

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Photography

The Secret Life of Jimmy Nelson A new book collects the former advertising executive turned intrepid photographer’s shots of Indigenous peoples from Siberia to Nepal to Kenya

Small Talk
“When faced with a tricky ethical issue, I always ask the question, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

Inside the Crime That Scandalized New York’s Bluebloods On this week’s podcast, Michael Gross takes a new look at the conviction of Brooke Astor’s son for stealing millions from her

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A Ballet with a Twist Cathy Marston premieres Atonement, an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel and her first creation as the new director of Ballett Zürich

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Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson The duo behind Los Angeles’s Kismet restaurants are publishing their first cookbook

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Small Talk

Daphne Guinness The musician, artist, and fashion fixture reveals her travel routine

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John Singer Sargent’s 1904 portrait of Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess d’Abernon, was considered one of his more risqué paintings at the time. Here, Lady Helen is flanked by two hedonistic vignettes by Fragonard as she watches over a sensual party below. The narrative in this painting—as in most of my work—is about the pursuit of pleasure and the disregard for the boundaries that society often places on women. It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To will be on view at Salon 21 in New York City beginning May 1.
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Issue No. 251
May 4, 2024
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Issue No. 251
May 4, 2024

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