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Vanity Fair US

VANITIES

NICHOLAS GALITZINE kicks into high gear

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June 2024
TAKE NO PRISONERS
Vanity Fair US

TAKE NO PRISONERS

The State Department's hostage point man, Roger Carstens, works to free US citizens from captivity, whether they're being held by Vladimir Putin or Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. ADAM CIRALSKY embeds with America's top negotiators through 15 months of rescue efforts with the highest of stakes: liberty or death

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June 2024
THE HIT MAN
Vanity Fair US

THE HIT MAN

Between Anyone but You and the upcoming Twisters, GLEN POWELL has seen all kinds of action on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's hottest young stars

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June 2024
Shots in the Dark
Vanity Fair US

Shots in the Dark

The Ozempic weight-loss miracle has a dark side: As desperate patients contend with shortages and skyhigh prices, a world of criminals and con artists are filling the void with lifethreatening counterfeits. KATHERINE EBAN investigates our alarmingly active pharmaceutical underground

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June 2024
Bibbidi Bobbidi WHO?
Vanity Fair US

Bibbidi Bobbidi WHO?

Disney is on the hunt for a new CEO to replace the legendary Bob Iger when he retires (again) at the end of 2026. Inside a $200 billion kingdom looking for a new king or, for the first time ever, a queen

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June 2024
THE LONG RIDE
The New Yorker

THE LONG RIDE

The surf legend Jock Sutherland's unlikely life.

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June 10, 2024
RED LINE
The New Yorker

RED LINE

With the election approaching, the U.S. and Mexico wrangle over border policy.

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June 10, 2024
ARE WE DOOMED?
The New Yorker

ARE WE DOOMED?

A course at the University of Chicago thinks it through.

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June 10, 2024
SUBCONSCIOUSLY YOURS
The New Yorker

SUBCONSCIOUSLY YOURS

Does every generation get the Freud it deserves?

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June 10, 2024
Beyond Imagining
The New Yorker

Beyond Imagining

Bessie, Lotte, Ruth, Farah, and Bridget, who had been lunching together for half a century, joined in later years by Ilka, Hope, and, occasionally, Lucinella, had agreed without the need for discussion that they were not going to pass, pass away, and under no circumstances on.

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June 10, 2024
BY A WHISKER
The New Yorker

BY A WHISKER

Louis Wain and the reinvention of the cat.

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June 10, 2024
INSIDE JOB-"Hit Man"
The New Yorker

INSIDE JOB-"Hit Man"

Years before Hannah Arendt coined, in the pages of this magazine, the phrase \"the banality of evil,\" popular films and fiction were embodying that idea in the character of the hit man. In classic crime movies such as \"This Gun for Hire\" (1942) and \"Murder by Contract\" (1958), hit men figure much as Nazis do in political movies, as symbols of abstract evil.

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June 10, 2024
WHATEVER YOU SAY
The New Yorker

WHATEVER YOU SAY

Rereading Jenny Holzer, at the Guggenheim.

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June 10, 2024
STATES OF PLAY
The New Yorker

STATES OF PLAY

Can advocates use state supreme courts to preserve-and perhaps expand-constitutional rights?

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June 10, 2024
God Explains the Rules of His New Board Game
The New Yorker

God Explains the Rules of His New Board Game

Guys, want to play this new board game? It’s called Life. No, it’s not “one of God’s impossible-to-understand games that take three hours to learn.” It’ll be fun, I promise!

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June 10, 2024
A Hollywood Family's Grudges
New York magazine

A Hollywood Family's Grudges

In Griffin Dunne's memoir, The Friday Afternoon Club-about growing up the son of Dominick Dunne and the nephew of John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion-both acid and names are dropped.

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June 03 - 15, 2024
An Atlas Who Can't Carry
New York magazine

An Atlas Who Can't Carry

J.Lo's AI-friendly flick flattens its own world.

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June 03 - 15, 2024
Reality Check
New York magazine

Reality Check

Joseph O'Neill's realist novel embodies the best and worst of the genre.

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June 03 - 15, 2024
THE LAST INAPPROPRIATE MAN ON TELEVISION
New York magazine

THE LAST INAPPROPRIATE MAN ON TELEVISION

How ANDY COHEN survived the 'Reality Reckoning' (at least for now).

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June 03 - 15, 2024
This Cooking Can't Be Pinned Down
New York magazine

This Cooking Can't Be Pinned Down

Theodora's menu is all over the map. That's what makes it great.

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June 03 - 15, 2024
Quite the Tomato
New York magazine

Quite the Tomato

A summer appetizer from a seriously ambitious restaurant.

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June 03 - 15, 2024
THE SECRET SAUCE
New York magazine

THE SECRET SAUCE

As Marcus on THE BEAR, LIONEL BOYCE is the guy everyone wants to be around. He's having that effect on Hollywood too.

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June 03 - 15, 2024
Answered Prayers
New York magazine

Answered Prayers

Brooklynites Cristiana Peña and Nick Porter had a dream to live in an old church upstate.

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June 03 - 15, 2024
Court Appearances: Andrew Rice
New York magazine

Court Appearances: Andrew Rice

The Moment Trump Was Convicted Suddenly, the whole atmosphere changed.

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June 03 - 15, 2024
The Chair Says 'Carrie'
New York magazine

The Chair Says 'Carrie'

Parker-spotting at Gramercy Park.

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June 03 - 15, 2024
INDUSTRY Goes for Broke
New York magazine

INDUSTRY Goes for Broke

With a new Sunday-night time slot and Game of Thrones's Kit Harington co-starring, can this buzzy GEN-Z FINANCE DRAMA finally break out?

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June 03 - 15, 2024
The Love Machine
New York magazine

The Love Machine

LOVE IS BLIND creator CHRIS COELEN drops a new group of singles into his strange experiment-and wrestles with all the lawsuits against the series.

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June 03 - 15, 2024
Billie Doesn't Have to Do It All
New York magazine

Billie Doesn't Have to Do It All

The singer's gleefully disorienting third album doesn't hit every note it reaches for.

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June 03 - 15, 2024
74 MINUTES WITH...Nikki Glaser
New York magazine

74 MINUTES WITH...Nikki Glaser

The comedian has been in the business for decades. But her set on the Tom Brady roast seems to have shifted something.

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June 03 - 15, 2024
Trump's Billionaire Boom
New York magazine

Trump's Billionaire Boom

How he gets away with promising to make the rich richer.

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June 03 - 15, 2024