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Writing in Bed with Eve Babitz

It’s the 1980s, and Hollywood’s best—and most beautiful—writer wants you to write a screenplay with her. Can you keep up?

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The Mourning Edition The New York Times’s Portraits of Grief were a defining memorial to those killed on 9/11—but not everyone welcomed what the paper chose to remember


The Nostalgia Doom Loop From the box office to the ballot box, America is stuck in reverse

Latest Issue • September 5, 2026
Issue No. 373
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Air Supply

The Long Goodbye For the final days of summer and the first days of everything else. The things worth having on both sides of the season

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Surf’s Up! A dazzling new coffee-table book captures five decades of American surfing culture through Jeff Divine’s lens

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Pucci Undercover In their book, Idanna Pucci and Terrence Ward trace the remarkable tale of how Emilio Pucci risked his life smuggling essential files to the Allies during World War II

Cohn Job In American Scoundrel, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird turns his attentions to Roy Cohn, fixer to Donald Trump and Joseph McCarthy


Invisible Men Marlon James’s Booker-long-listed novel confronts a brutal act of violence against a group of gay men in 1980s Jamaica

Home Sweet Home The Bayeux Tapestry, a medieval embroidery that has long fascinated storytellers such as George R. R. Martin, returns to England for the first time in 1,000 years

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Guest Edit

Henrique de Castro, Sheba Jafari, and Stuart Winecoff’s Favorite Things The founders of New York’s most talked-about new wellness club share what they actually use—and why the lighting helps

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“I Know Those Guys” Before he met Nora Ephron, Nick Pileggi learned everything he needed to know to write Goodfellas in Bensonhurst

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