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The Last Great Media Mogul
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The Zeitgeist of 1969—Apollo 11, Stonewall, Woodstock, Charles Manson, Sesame Street,…
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A Brief History of a Long War
There is no shortage of accounts detailing the centuries-old conflict between Ukraine and Russia…
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Bolola
If you find yourself equally at home in the West Village as in the Wild West, Bolola is for you. Founded by luxury-fashion veterans Martha Merriam…
The Curious Case of Mike Lynch A toxic culture—complete with piranha tanks and Bond-villain rooms—ran rampant at the company founded by the British tech tycoon, who died in a freak yacht accident
As I Lay Dying In his second novel following Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders tells the Dickensian story of an unrepentant industrialist on his deathbed
The Cult of Karl Ove Knausgaard The Norwegian writer inspires a reverence bordering on worship among his mostly male fans. He can bring grown men to tears with a single sentence
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed After documenting everything from the Vietnam War to the Beatles, the British artist Don McCullin turned to antiquity. His photographs of classical statues are now featured in a new exhibition
