August 20, 2009 – 10:40 pm
With “The September Issue,” the director R. J. Cutler learned how to film a fashion editor whose first words are “Go away.”
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Mrs. Roy Chapin Jr. and her family at their Grosse Pointe, Mich., home around 1970, from the Slim Aarons book “A Wonderful Time.”The automotive industry’s current woes are so severe, members of the local ruling class say that they feel threatened to an extent they haven’t before.
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February 28, 2009 – 11:20 pm
Caitlin Macy lives on the Upper East Side.The author of “Spoiled” explores subtleties of privilege and the failure and rejection in the waning days of the Second Gilded Age.

February 1, 2009 – 4:47 am
Some see Michael Ignatieff, the opposition Liberal Party leader, as a throwback to Pierre Trudeau.A literary man about town may be Canada’s next prime minister.

January 3, 2009 – 2:13 pm
This clear-green liquor used to be available only on the black market, but nowadays its exclusivity factor has faded.
