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Going SOLO • ALANA HAIM makes sonic waves with her sisters, but she’s heading to the big screen on her own
Food for THOUGHT • At home in Brooklyn, chef SOPHIA ROE likes her tea sweet and her wine with a side of green beans
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Good NATURED • A sweater vest serving Smokey Bear vibes and rugged flannel fit right into the lush landscapes that mark autumn, inspiring their wearers to escape and unplug. To quote our favorite woodland creature, Lorde: “Can you reach me? No you can’t!”
Model BEHAVIOR • For ADUT AKECH, a new Estée Lauder face, all the world’s a runway—but off-duty life is for cooking, baths, and Bridgerton
The Thrill OF IT • In five decades of diary entries, PATRICIA HIGHSMITH reveals her complications
T’s of THE TRADE • In a new book, HARUKI MURAKAMI takes a sartorial turn
Four Horsemen of THE FOREVER WAR • How successive commanders in chief, from Bush to Biden, got caught in the Afghan quagmire
THE PASSION OF DWAYNE JOHNSON • HE’S WRESTLED WITH MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: A VOLATILE CHILDHOOD AND A HEARTBREAKING RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS DAD, NOT TO MENTION HIS “CANDY ASS” NEMESIS VIN DIESEL. ON THE EVE OF HIS NEW MOVIE RED NOTICE, THE MEGASTAR AND ENTREPRENEUR FIRST KNOWN AS THE ROCK DRINKS HIS TEQUILA AND TELLS HIS TRUTH
All That Zaz • In his 15 years running Discovery, DAVID ZASLAV was a media mogul for Main Street. Now, with the creation of Warner Bros. Discovery, he’s poised to become America’s king of content—and is gearing up for battle with Disney and Netflix
THAT NIGHT IN Ravello • Inhis new memoir, Baggage, the actor ALAN CUMMING recalls a whisky-soaked evening 20 years ago with author GORE VIDAL at his six-story villa, perched above the cliffs of the Amalfi Coast
Katie Porter Has the Floor • In her first three years, the DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN has shot to prominence, leveling corporate titans and tussling with Republicans and her own party alike. She and her whiteboard are JUST GETTING STARTED
THE BONE COLLECTOR • IN 2014, THE FBI DISCOVERED AN ENTIRE MUSEUM—AND THOUSANDS OF HUMAN REMAINS—IN THE HOME OF A 90-YEAR-OLD INDIANA MAN WHO HOSTED THE BOY SCOUTS AND CLAIMED TO HAVE DETONATED THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB. WAS HE A PILLAR OF HIS COMMUNITY OR THE MOST PROLIFIC GRAVE ROBBER IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY?
MAVERICKS • A new generation of pilots gets its wings in Tom Cruise’s long-awaited sequel to TOP GUN
LAST DANCE • When Ashley Byers and Doug Benefield met on the 2016 Trump trail, it was a coup de foudre for the two gun-enthusiast evangelicals. Four years later, their passion project—a ballet company for unconventional dancers—would be in shambles, and one of them would be dead
SCOTTIE PIPPEN • The six-time NBA champ and author of the new memoir Unguarded on the Olympics, Superman, and dreams of anonymity
