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Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? New York’s streets and parks used to be teeming with them. Now they’re inside on their phones—and the city’s culture is all the worse for it

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The Layover Look The secret to looking good at the airport isn’t suffering beautifully. It’s wearing clothes that quietly do their jobs so that you don’t lose your mind


The New Fembots The proliferation of A.I. fembots is only the latest iteration in a centuries-old quest to create the “perfect” woman

Sword Fight! Beau D., a small Malibu men’s beauty brand whose main product is, yes, a penis cream, is taking on Brad Pitt’s skin-care line, Beau Domaine, over a trademark violation

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The Duke Hunter Andrew Lownie’s biography of the Yorks helped bring down the former Prince Andrew. With new allegations in the forthcoming U.S. paperback, the scourge of the royals is still in hot pursuit

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Fire Island Time A new coffee-table book looks beyond the island’s reputation as a queer summer utopia, revealing it, for the first time, as a creative hub that influenced artists from Richard Avedon to Wolfgang Tillmans

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


Murder, They Wrote This month in mysteries: James Comey’s new espionage thriller and the latest installment in Anthony Horowitz’s meta-mystery series

Requiem for a Dreamscape A retrospective in Germany honors Verner Panton, the Danish designer who transformed the spirit of American counterculture into psychedelic interiors blending color, sensuality, and fun

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For Father’s Sake A collection for fathers and father figures with hobbies, opinions, highly specific preferences, and at least one recommendation they’ll remember all year

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Art on Trial When Dmitry Rybolovlev took Sotheby’s auction house to court and accused it of defrauding him, it revealed the limits of a billionaire’s power

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