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Russia’s Greatest Love Machine Antony Beevor’s new biography of Grigori Rasputin argues that the controversial Russian adviser triggered the fall of Russia’s autocracy

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Where Bob Dylan Met the Beatles From the Savoy in London to an airport hotel in Queens, the little-known story of the rooms where the musical giants forged a surprisingly close bond


Stable Work What my dead-end internship at a mediocre Saratoga Springs restaurant taught me about horse racing—and the food-service industry

Club-Sandwich Confidential The trusty club is having a moment. An inside look at how some of the most exclusive restaurants in the city are riffing on a classic

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To Italy with Love A new coffee-table book offers a visual antidote to the country’s overtourism crisis, capturing its most untouched corners through the eyes of local photographers

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Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss a reckoning with the greatest atrocity of the Russo-Ukrainian war, a survey of gold’s role in history, and an investigation into the afterlife of Adolf Hitler’s death

When Peter Met Paul In The Wonderful World That Almost Was, Andrew Durbin traces the complex relationship of artists Paul Thek and Peter Hujar, longtime friends and sometime lovers


Small Town Girl Jayne Anne Phillips was a literary wunderkind who counted Sam Shepard and Jim Harrison among her fans. Her latest book revisits her childhood in rural Appalachia

Off the Wall An exhibition in Cologne collects the work of seven photographers from both sides of the Berlin Wall, offering a fresh look into the years between its construction and its collapse

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Maman A small correction to the usual script, this edit looks past the predictable and toward things that feel a bit more personal, and a little less obligatory. For mothers, and all the other figures who have quietly taken on the role

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Behind Closed Doors Claims of questionable business ethics and sexual improprieties at Carpenters Workshop, the art world’s most prestigious design gallery, reveal a company flying dangerously close to the sun

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