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Vanities

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23 / Opening Act

Podcaster Alex Cooper, of Call Her Daddy, drops the mic.

26 / Books

A lush ode to car design, captivating story collections, and more new reads.

27 / The Gallery

A new timepiece draws on a classic silhouette.

28 / Trending

A painter's passions inspire a rosy sartorial outlook.

31 / Screen Study

To welcome Killers of the Flower Moon to the screen, a survey of Martin Scorsese's non-Mob oeuvre.

32 / Beauty

This season's moody makeup has bite, with ties to vampire lore and cyber dystopia.

33 / My Place

Chef Daniel Boulud leads a foodie's tour of his favorite Manhattan haunts.

34 / My Stuff

Milan dweller and La Double J founder J.J. Martin swears by patterned kaftans, daily breath work, and Venetian slippers.

Columns

38 Long Day's Journey

Why are movies so endless when they're going to have five sequels anyway? A deep dive into a tiring tre nd.

By Natalie Jarvey

Illustration by Jorge Arevalo

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40 Swamp Things

Ron DeSantis isn't getting enough credit for being as awful as he is. A Florida man reports.

By CarlHiaasen Illustration by Philip Burke

Features

47 Bad Bunny's Year of Best and Belaxation

The global pop icon on new music, a new girlfriend, and giving up on taking a break. By Michelle Ruiz Photographs by Szilveszter Mako

62 The Last Descent

Inside the tight-knit community of explorers who for years suspected the OceanGate tragedy was bound to happen.

By Susan Casey

68 Estate of Play

Owning a Downton Abbeystyle country house isn't what it used to be. These days, the rich and legacied have been forced to reckon with the past.

By James Reginato

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THE ABYSS

35,800FEET

The depth reached by Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh in 1960 on the first dive to the Challenger Deep, the ocean's deepest canyon. [P. 62]

"Everything seems to be bigger and bolder, including the country homes. This is Yorkshire, the Texas of England.''

—"ESTATE OF PLAY" [P.68]

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PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

If you were to come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? A wide receiver that catches passes from Patrick Mahomes. -MEUSSA ETHERIDGE [p.ioei

Features

76 Future Tense

Whether it leads to our salvation or our extinction, futurists and philosophers agree on one thing: The AI revolution is here. By NickBilton Illustration by Grace Aldrich

82 New Directions

Catching up with director Nia DaCosta, the first Black woman and youngest person to helm a Marvel film. By Rebecca Ford Photographs by Tom Craig

86 The Life of the Party

His Hamptons White Party is the invite of the season. How billionaire Michael Rubin became the Gen X Gatsby. By Dan Adler

92 War of the Worlds

Inside the US military's pivot to training for full-out war between superpowers.

By Phil Klay Photographs by Peter Van Agtmael

18 Editor's Letter

20 Contributors

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