FROM THE MAGAZINE

August 2022

High Life

The magic of black and white films

Switch, alas, to the present: surgery as spectacle stretches the limits of disgust

By Taki

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Low Life

In praise of a solidly, wonderfully French hotel

There was a wall of books, ashtrays from the golden age of smoking and an air of greater liberty

By Jeremy Clarke

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London Life

My Tina Brown fantasy

I waited twenty years for the Tina call — but alas I suspect I’ve got a lot more waiting to do

By Cosmo Landesman

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American Life

The selfishness of rich socialists

Albert Brisbane somehow avoided sharing the wealth with his neighbors

By Bill Kauffman

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Prejudices

From modernism to totalitarianism

Postmodern man is characterized by an obsession with technique and technology

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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