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RHYTHM COLLECTOR
The New Yorker

RHYTHM COLLECTOR

Eblis Álvarez's Meridian Brothers unites the many strands of Latin music.

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September 30, 2024
THE ESCAPE ARTIST
The New Yorker

THE ESCAPE ARTIST

The Italian priest who helps women in the Mafia flee the criminal underworld.

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10+ mins  |
September 30, 2024
MERELY PLAYERS
The New Yorker

MERELY PLAYERS

Race, politics, and the theatre collide in Alan Hollinghurst's

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10 mins  |
September 30, 2024
MOVE TO TRASH
The New Yorker

MOVE TO TRASH

Is it time for a new Constitution?

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September 30, 2024
IMMATERIAL GIRL
The New Yorker

IMMATERIAL GIRL

Sophie is gone. Her music lives on.

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7 mins  |
September 30, 2024
THE GE NERAL
Vanity Fair US

THE GE NERAL

How ELIZABETH PRELOGAR, America's low-key, high-powered solicitor general, is holding the Supreme Court's feet to the fire

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October 2024
BAD FAITH
Vanity Fair US

BAD FAITH

From exiled actors to academics, influencers to intellectuals, VF gets under the hood of the Catholic right's celebrity conversion industrial complex

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October 2024
STRANGER Things
Vanity Fair US

STRANGER Things

The Democrats' short hot summer of \"weird\"

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October 2024
FUNNY BUSINESS
Vanity Fair US

FUNNY BUSINESS

NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE LAUNCHED A REVOLUTION THAT CHANGED COMEDY, TELEVISION, AND THE MOVIES. NOW DIRECTOR JASON REITMAN HAS RE-CREATED THE CHAOTIC HOURS BEFORE SNL'S FIRST EPISODE. LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT'S 1975!

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8 mins  |
October 2024
A House Divided
Vanity Fair US

A House Divided

The Mellon dynasty has long been known for its old money refinement and discretion. But when TIM MELLON became Donald Trump's biggest donor many members of the family were mystified-and not afraid to talk about it

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October 2024
THE BILLIONAIRE'S SECRET
Vanity Fair US

THE BILLIONAIRE'S SECRET

THE GERMAN INDUSTRIALIST KLAUSMICHAEL KUEHNE, BORN IN 1937, IS ONE OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, WITH MORE MONEY THAN KEN GRIFFIN, OR MACKENZIE SCOTT, OR FRANÇOIS PINAULT. WHERE DID HIS FAMILY FORTUNE COME FROM? THE NAZIS KNOW

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October 2024
Give and Let Give -Melinda French Gates is speaking out for the rights of women and girls, embracing her role as godmother to her fellow philanthropists, and getting political, even when it's a little uncomfortable.
Vanity Fair US

Give and Let Give -Melinda French Gates is speaking out for the rights of women and girls, embracing her role as godmother to her fellow philanthropists, and getting political, even when it's a little uncomfortable.

Melinda French Gates is speaking out for the rights of women and girls, embracing her role as godmother to her fellow philanthropists, and getting political, even when it's a little uncomfortable.

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October 2024
Boys and Their Toys - Inside the hypermacho, Bible-thumping alt-tech universe trying to take on Silicon Valley-from El Segundo
Vanity Fair US

Boys and Their Toys - Inside the hypermacho, Bible-thumping alt-tech universe trying to take on Silicon Valley-from El Segundo

For more than two years, in the small, unassuming beach town of El Segundo, California, dozens of young men have gathered with a singular mission: to save America. They will do this, they say, by building the next generation of great tech companies. They call what they are building real shit—not like what the software engineers make up north, writing code on shiny MacBooks. Instead, these men have a taste for the tangible: They spend their workdays toiling in labs and manufacturing lines, their nights sleeping on couches and bunk beds. Some are making drones to try to control the weather. Others are building nuclear reactors and military weaponry designed to fight Russia and China.

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6 mins  |
October 2024
Books- Rachel Kushner's Surprising Swerve - She and her narrators have always relied on swagger-but not this time.
The Atlantic

Books- Rachel Kushner's Surprising Swerve - She and her narrators have always relied on swagger-but not this time.

Sometimes I am boggled by the gallery of souls I've known. By the lore. The wild history, unsung, Rachel Kushner writes in The Hard Crowd, her 2021 essay collection. People crowd in and talk to me in dreams. People who died or disappeared or whose connection to my own life makes no logical sense, but exists as strong as ever, in a past that seeps and stains instead of fades. As a girl in San Francisco's Sunset District, Kushner ran with a group whom she has described as ratty delinquents-kids who fought, who set fires, who got high too young and too often, who in some cases wound up incarcerated or addicted or dead. At 16, she headed to UC Berkeley for college, but returned to the city after graduating working at bars and immersing herself in the motorcycle scene. Almost immersing herself, anyway. Even when she was a 14-year-old sampling strangers' drugs at rock concerts, some piece of Kushner was an observer as well as a participant, a student of unsung histories.

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9 mins  |
October 2024
HUGO HAMILTON AUTOBAHN
The New Yorker

HUGO HAMILTON AUTOBAHN

On the Autobahn outside Frankfurt. November. The fields were covered in a thin sheet of snow.

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September 23, 2024
WITH THE MOSTEST
The New Yorker

WITH THE MOSTEST

The very rich hours of Pamela Harriman.

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September 23, 2024
EYES WIDE SHUT
The New Yorker

EYES WIDE SHUT

How Monet shared a private world.

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September 23, 2024
SORRY I'M NOT YOUR CLOWN TODAY
The New Yorker

SORRY I'M NOT YOUR CLOWN TODAY

Bowen Yang's trip to Oz, by way of conversion therapy and S..N.L.”

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September 23, 2024
JOY RIDE
The New Yorker

JOY RIDE

Grant Petersen wants to preserve the craft, and delight, of cycling.

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September 23, 2024
LET'S HAVE A LONG TALK ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP JUST BEFORE BED!
The New Yorker

LET'S HAVE A LONG TALK ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP JUST BEFORE BED!

Babe, are you nodding off? I know we’re both exhausted after a long day, a dinner party at which you made a three-word comment that left me feeling like you don’t know me at all, and the subsequent ninety-minute fight that culminated in a tentative truce.

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September 23, 2024
TRY IT ON
The New Yorker

TRY IT ON

How Law Roach reimagined red-carpet style.

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September 23, 2024
MIRROR IMAGES
The New Yorker

MIRROR IMAGES

‘A Different Man” and The Substance.”

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6 mins  |
September 23, 2024
OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY
The New Yorker

OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

Proximity to wealth proves perilous in Rumaan Alam’ novel Entitlement.”

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9 mins  |
September 23, 2024
Sniff Test - A maverick perfumer tries to make his mark on a storied fashion house.
The New Yorker

Sniff Test - A maverick perfumer tries to make his mark on a storied fashion house.

What does conspicuous consumption smell like? On a December afternoon in 2013, the Parisian perfumer Francis Kurkdjian was scheduled to meet with the renowned French crystal manufacturer Baccarat at the company’s chandelier-crammed headquarters, near the Arc de Triomphe. The C.E.O. at the time, Daniela Riccardi, had commissioned Kurkdjian to create a limited-edition fragrance to mark the company’s two-hundred-andfiftieth anniversary. Baccarat planned to produce two hundred and f ifty diamond-cut crystal flacons of the new perfume, priced at three thousand euros each, and wanted the scent to reflect the quality and opulence of its vessel.

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September 23, 2024
Tales from the New World
The New Yorker

Tales from the New World

The novelist Richard Powers considers our changing earth.

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September 16, 2024
LAST COFFEEHOUSE ON TRAVIS
The New Yorker

LAST COFFEEHOUSE ON TRAVIS

For a few months, I stayed with my aunt's friend in Midtown, back when she could still afford to live there.

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September 16, 2024
Screams from a Marriage
The New Yorker

Screams from a Marriage

‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.”

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6 mins  |
September 16, 2024
Land of the Flea
The New Yorker

Land of the Flea

What America 1s buying and selling.

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September 16, 2024
How We Got the Story
The New Yorker

How We Got the Story

This five-part series, which includes this three-part series on how we got the story, is the result of a two-year investigation, involving dozens of legal filings, scores of interview requests, several interviews, innumerable Zoom meetings, and five 311 calls.

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3 mins  |
September 16, 2024
The Post-Moral Age
The New Yorker

The Post-Moral Age

If conscience is merely a biological artifact, must we give up on goodness?

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September 16, 2024