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Issue No. 35

The View from Here

We’re worried about the pandemic. Not just the coronavirus. As scary as that is, everyone—except Donald Trump—agrees on a united response.

We’re also alarmed by the cancel pandemic…

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Lessons of the Spanish Flu What can we learn from the 20th century’s deadliest virus outbreak?

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We’re All Germophobes Now And it’s time to end the handshake madness

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Before #MeToo, There Was Natalie Wood Pimped to Frank Sinatra at 15, raped at 16: harrowing new insights into the star’s life and death

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“It’s still too flattering—keep looking.”

Barclay v. Barclay In which the scions of a secretive British billionaire are accused of conspiring against his identical twin brother

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Sheikhing with Fear The billionaire ruler of Dubai consorts with V.I.P.’s but persecutes and imprisons his wives and daughters

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Party Like It’s the 1920s

The phrase “Bright Young Things” was dreamed up by an unknown journalist almost a century ago. It conjured a social phenomenon: a collection of privileged youth, famed from the mid- to late 1920s for their tireless hedonism, who symbolized an almighty rupture with a world still fixated upon the Great War. Iconoclasts with Burke’s Peerage pedigrees, the Bright Young Things laid waste to the past with yah-boo-sucks heedlessness. They were frivolous, and thus should have been easy to dismiss, but frivolity was the point—for where had good behavior gotten the previous generation? It was a fair question. READ ON

Photographs by Cecil Beaton, himself a Bright Young Thing who documented the glamour of the time, are on view now at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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“You Brought Me Flowers?” Not quite, but these charming floral dresses are the next best thing

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Murder Is Her Muse Writer Sarah Phelps is shocking Agatha Christie purists—and re-inventing the genre

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It’s a Wrap


Ahead of Christo's newest public art project, L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, an exhibition opening next week* at the Centre Pompidou celebrates Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work, including their 1975–85 "wrapping" of Paris's Pont Neuf.

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The Princess Diaries Narcissism, drug abuse, infidelity, and betrayal—Princess Margaret’s longtime lady-in-waiting writes a tell-all

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Casey Cep Harper Lee’s biographer recommends the most revolutionary books in the genre

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The Mirror & the Light

by Hilary Mantel
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by Neal Bascomb
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“We know nothing. We’ll be back in five minutes with nothing more.”

Last Days of Disco

Once upon a vanished time, in those boogie nights of yore when cocaine was queen, the nightlife of New York City shuddered under the heavy beat of an estimated 1,500 discos bursting with sweaty, protozoic dancing and mating. Pre-eminent among those clubs—supreme in its heyday, wreathed in lore and legend ever since—was Studio 54. “Studio,” as habitués called it, has become synonymous with the disco era, its parabolic rise and fall. READ ON

Le freak, forever chic! "Studio 54: Night Magic," on now at the Brooklyn Museum*, celebrates the 70s brainchild of Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell (pictured here in a portrait by Richard Bernstein).

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Ailsa Maxwell The economics student turned codebreaker was on duty when Germany’s unconditional surrender came over the wire in May of 1945

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Issue No. 35
March 14, 2020
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Issue No. 35
March 14, 2020