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WAGs Just Want to Have Fun In time for the World Cup, a look at the wives and girlfriends of soccer players who have long stolen the spotlight from the beautiful game, from Posh Spice to Shakira

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If Ayatollah Once… Stolen Revolution tells the story of post-revolutionary Iran through the individuals who fought back against the repressive theocracy—often at great personal cost


The Tweet Escape San Francisco gave away $70 million in tax revenue to lure the nascent social-media company to its bleakest neighborhood. Was it worth it?

“We’d Just Never Seen Anything Like It” In the summer of 1976, the Sex Pistols played two sparsely attended shows in Manchester. Among the few who did turn up were future members of Buzzcocks, the Fall, the Smiths, and Joy Division

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The Hardest Day’s Night With photographs by Jim Marshall, a new coffee-table book revisits the charged, melancholy night the Beatles played the last concert of their final tour

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The Royal Treatment From The Crown to Love Story, Hollywood’s enduring fascination with the Windsors and the Kennedys has cemented their mythos for the next generation—but at what cost?

Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss: the five Cambridge grads who spied for Stalin, how birds evolved from dinosaurs, and a W.W.II novel following two Black U.S. soldiers and a Jewish boy


What’s Don Is Don In Twilight of the Dons, Colin Kidd revisits the golden age of Oxford and Cambridge’s academics, from World War II to Thatcherism

Bigger, Better, Starrier Twelve years after its brief run on Broadway, Sting brings The Last Ship, his autobiographical passion project, to the Metropolitan Opera House

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School’s Out. So Are We A summer-break guide for grown-ups. Things for getting away, staying out, answering fewer e-mails, and treating September as a problem for a future version of yourself

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In the Pink After securing an all-new team for just $25 million in the city of his choice, David Beckham brought Lionel Messi, the world’s most popular player, to Miami and may well have changed the sport in the U.S. forever

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