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Whole NEW WORLD • As a brassy sex worker in Sean Baker’s new film, MIKEY MADISON leaves her comfort zone—backward and in heels, no less

The High LIFE • Domesticity icon and CBD magnate MARTHA STEWART elevates the everyday with Parisian pajamas and her new puppy

Portrait of A WOMAN • Known for her intensely visceral, often autobiographical works, British artist TRACEY EMIN gets the Phaidon treatment in a new study of her paintings and practice. The monograph puts a career without apology on display

Word PLAY • In an intimate essay collection, JENNY SLATE expresses the weird and the wonderful

Six Pack • Inspired detective stories, family drama, and more new novels

Time Is RIPE

Tough LOVE • JESSE EISENBERG goes deep on his wry, resonant screenplay

Chic, PLEASE • Armani/Ristorante presents a new way to savor the timeless appeal of a legendary name

The Kamala BUMP • Donald Trump notoriously gave media outlets a boost with audiences and traffic. Now Kamala Harris is doing it—but better

FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES • CYNTHIA ERIVO AND ARIANA GRANDE ARE EPICALLY TALENTED—AND UTTERLY DIFFERENT—STARS, BUT THEIR OFFSCREEN BOND GIVES WICKED ITS BEATING HEART. THEY OPEN UP ABOUT DEFYING GRAVITY—AND EXPECTATIONS

THE LOST CAUSE • When a school board in South Carolina erupted over efforts to ban his book Between the World and Me, TA-NEHISI COATES went to listen in on the fight. Here, an excerpt from The Message

La Belle Époque • To mark artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière’s first decade at Louis Vuitton, VF explores the house archive, with a little help from the Haim sisters

Empire State of Mind • Can Steve Bannon and his army of malcontents succeed at upsetting the American-led global order?

IN PLAIN SIGHT • AMATEUR ART SLEUTH CLIFFORD SCHORER III HAS HELPED FIND LOST WORKS BY DÜRER, REMBRANDT, AND RUBENS. NOW HE’S EMBARKED ON HIS GREATEST DISCOVERY YET, CRACKING A 43-YEAR-OLD COLD CASE

THE VICIOUS CIRCLE • YOUNG NEOFASCISTS ARE AT AN INFLECTION POINT, AS SOME DO TIME FOR INCREASINGLY SERIOUS CRIMES, FROM MURDER TO DOMESTIC TERRORISM. WORSE, PRISONS NOW FUNCTION AS FINISHING SCHOOLS FOR THE WOULD-BE PROGENITORS OF AN AMERICAN REICH

JOHN LITHGOW • The six-time Emmy winner, who can currently be seen in Conclave, on joyous Democrats, arboreal reincarnation, and tall-people problems