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Open BOOK • On stage and screen, RENEÉ RAPP plays a queen bee. In real life, she’s more a Janis Ian type

Cult Classics • Prada Beauty looks to the future while mining the house codes.

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SOLID Principles • Chase off winter doldrums with a palette plucked from the canvases of Derain and Matisse—marmalade polos, vert satchels, a timepiece in rich plum. They weren’t called Les Fauves (“wild beasts”!) for nothing

Salon CULTURE • A Met exhibition on the impact of the Harlem Renaissance illuminates a link between beauty pioneer Madam C.J. Walker and contemporary art

Speak MEMORY • Two authors consider resilience in memoirs of mourning—one a divorce, the other a dear friend’s death

Listen In • In Kiley Reid’s Come and Get It (Putnam), a professor obsesses over the class dynamics of an undergrad dorm suite and eavesdropping ensues. Here, Reid, also author of Such a Fun Age, shares her inspirations.

SIX PACK • Twisty family ties and vivid settings animate new novels

Field NOTES • From sculptural accessories to faux sheep, British interior designer SOPHIE ASHBY revels in the unexpected

BOHEMIAN Rhapsody • At a jewel box of a hotel in Mexico City, lush pleasures come in an exquisite package

THE FOG of War • How can we trust the images we see from the Israel-Hamas conflict?

PRETTY Boys • This Oscar season has redefined the himbo

FOREVER SIMONE • The greatest gymnast of all time opens up about life as a newlywed, her recovery from Tokyo, and what’s ahead—including Paris, peut-être

BARBARIANS at the GLADES • Palm Beach, long a sleepy bastion for the leisurely elite, is straining under the weight of an influx of MAGAs with money, COVID exiles, and Gen X newbies. And don’t even get them started on West Palm

THE ONE-BODY PROBLEM • BRYAN JOHNSON HAS SPENT MILLIONS ON HIS TWIN QUESTS FOR ETERNAL LIFE AND A YOUNGER PENIS. AND THAT’S JUST THE STUFF YOU’VE READ ABOUT. OTHER ASPECTS OF HIS MORTAL LIFE TELL A TALE FAR MORE STRANGE

THRONE OF GAMES • Wordle. Connections. Spelling Bee. Ye olde crossword. THE NEW YORK TIMES is home to the most popular brainteasers online—and that fandom is key to the paper’s bottom line. Meet the mischievous masterminds stumping the solvers and running the show

TICKET TO RIDE • SIXTY YEARS AGO, HISTORY’S MOST INFLUENTIAL ROCK BAND TOOK THE WORLD BY STORM DURING THEIR FIRST-EVER TRIP TO THE US. AS A YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER, I WAS WITH THEM FOR THE HARD DAYS AND UPROARIOUS NIGHTS

Late Bloomer • Thirty years ago, after David Letterman decamped to CBS, NBC made a historic decision—to give Late Night to a nobody. An oral history of CONAN O’BRIEN’s tumultuous (and hilarious) first year

MARISKA HARGITAY • The star of Law & Order: SVU, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, on sharks, tap dancing, and making time stand still