FROM THE MAGAZINE

June 2023

High Life

New York’s killer cyclists

A total disregard for the law is now acceptable, with bikers openly performing glissandos past very fat and short traffic wardens

By Taki

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London Life

The joy of missing out

One should never complain about not being invited to something

By Cosmo Landesman

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Low Life

I’m going downhill fast

One of Ford Madox Ford’s novels is called A Man Could Stand Up. Well, this one couldn’t

By Jeremy Clarke

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American Life

Michael Cimino’s gift to cinema

Heaven’s Gate is a 200-minute-plus mess of beautiful incoherences and stupefying contradictions

By Bill Kauffman

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Prejudices

The dangers of faux-education

Education on a mass scale is adjusted to and reflective of the limitations of the average citizen’s intellectual abilities and his competency

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Life

Pet portraitist Mimi Vang Olsen marches to the beat of her own drum

For this artist, life is an adventure, not a struggle

By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

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