Mayday! Cambridge’s most infamous party girl tips her hat to Dafydd Jones, the society photographer whose latest book captures more than 40 years of the school’s hedonistic May Balls
Winston Churchill’s Alter Ego An exhibition in London re-introduces Churchill as a painter—a hobby he took up in the summer of 1915, amidst the depressive slump that followed his ousting from the Admiralty
Latest Issue • May. 16, 2026
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No. 357
An American Tragedy in London
PLUS
A LATE NIGHT TO REMEMBER
THE FASHION WHISPERER
BIBI’S NEMESIS
and more!
Film and Television
Bella Maclean Dishes On Her Return to Jilly Cooper’s Rivals
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Riviera
With rising jet-fuel prices, that coastal European vacation you were planning might turn out to be more of a dream than a reality this summer…
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The Blue Gardenia
Mystery! Murder! Moral ambiguity! The Blue Gardenia has all the elements to craft the perfect film noir. Directed by Fritz Lang…
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Tumi
I’ve been on a years-long search for a lightweight, throw-everything-into-it tote bag that can withstand schlepping around…
Stones on the Rocks Over the course of 65 years, a few near divorces, and several drug busts, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards’s creative partnership remains—however improbably—one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most enduring
Steve Jobs’s Lost Decade After being forced out of Apple in 1985, its founder spent 12 years running a floundering start-up. A new book claims this exile set the stage for Silicon Valley’s greatest comeback story
Each Man Is an Island Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say follows a high school teacher as he feels increasingly alienated within his coastal Massachusetts community
Form over Function A new exhibition in Brooklyn showcases 140 garments by the Dutch designer Iris van Herpen, whose work blurs the line between fashion and sculpture
Crime and Scandal
How One Woman Conned a Mayfair Jeweler in a $5.8 Million Diamond Theft
