Dubai’s Softer Side In a city known for excess, what does “luxury” even mean? The Lana, the Dorchester Collection’s stylish new hotel, has a few suggestions
Robert Plunket’s Pet Peeves The cult comic-fiction writer, who is undergoing a revival at the age of 79, reveals a few of his least favorite things
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No. 253
The Secret Daughter
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APOCALYPSE NOW OR NEVER
WRITING ON THE HALLS
BURN THE BOATS!
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Film and Television
Can the New Stage Adaptation of Withnail & I Measure Up to the Original?
Morning Meeting
Can You Have an Affair With A.I.?
Arts and Letters
William F. Buckley Jr’s Sprawling Childhood Home is For Sale
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The Lowell
Stylish afternoon teas are all the rage in London, and now—thanks to a new collaboration between the Lowell’s Majorelle restaurant…
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The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain
Before publishing his first novel, A Pale View of Hills, in 1982, Kazuo Ishiguro wrote lyrics instead…
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Van Cleef & Arpels
The glass, polished-brass, and granite storefronts on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue just became a lot more colorful with Van Cleef &…
The Fame Game The Harvard Law professor Cass R. Sunstein’s new book, How to Become Famous, explores the idea of fame and how it happens, from the Beatles to Taylor Swift
Life and Death In My Time of Dying, a new memoir by Sebastian Junger, sees the author coming face to face with death and the idea of an afterlife
Murder, They Wrote This month’s best mystery books range from a thriller spelling out the origins of Fascism in England to a literary whodunit reminiscent of The Thursday Murder Club
The Afterlife of the Bauhaus An exhibition in Weimar, Germany, untangles the contradictory legacy of the modernist movement amid the rise of Nazism
