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Endless SUMMER • Embrace the very last of the sunnier season with the best new people, places and things to check out this month

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VANITIES

Due Time • Black filmmakers star in a new exhibit at L.A.’s Academy Museum.

Field of DREAMS • When Rolex launched the Datejust in 1945, it was an everyday watch, a stroke of beautiful efficiency in a busy postwar world, its name signifying the tiny calendar at three o’clock. The new version, with diamonds for pistils on the 24 flowers that blossom across its face, is a wrist corsage of modern femininity. (In addition to the blue, photographed here amid thistle, the Datejust 31 comes in silver and olive green.)

OUTSIDE Interests • With its first complexion line, Hermès Beauty taps the age-old appeal of adventure

NEED FOR TWEED

Beau Travail • Dior Beauty bottles up a storied Granville rose for its newest skin-care product.

Clued IN • Fall essentials embrace indulgent maximalism: feathered coats, vibrant blush, spiked boots, and brocade fit for Monet—plus an inclination toward only the merriest meddling

Downtown DARLINGS • Balthazar was the place, fun was the time, for Chanel’s 15th annual Tribeca Festival Artists Dinner celebrating movie stars and fine art

Dark MATTER • Courtroom dramas and murder mysteries reach for bigger truths

On Display • Three authors explore private lives lived in public.

SIX PACK • Family woes, 1980s New York City, and more new fiction

A Brief History of TRUMPWORLD Tell-Alls • The Trump administration is the publishing grift that keeps on grifting. A year and a half after the end of Trump’s presidency, more than 10 of his advisers and lackeys have put out books. In August, his son-in-law and former senior adviser, Jared Kushner, will join the self-enriching authorhood. But telling the public all goes down easier with a cushy advance and a fresh chance at fameballing. Here, five of the most recent, broken down.

Family MATTERS • The brother-sister duo behind architecture and interiors firm Studio Shamshiri prove good taste is by design

COMIC Effect • It’s been nearly a decade since a network show won the Emmy for best comedy. Will the pendulum ever swing back?

Guess Who’s BACK? • Back again. Your favorite book characters—tell a friend

POWER, Not Reason • The Supreme Court is unraveling American society, and our democracy, just because it can

KEYS TO THE KINGDOM

FAR FROM THE MADDOW CROWD • A year ago, RACHEL MADDOW negotiated a staggering multimillion-dollar annual deal not to be on the air five nights a week. In her first interview since stepping back, she talks V. F. through her next act

FAST COMPANY • In a trove of never-before-seen letters, the unlikely, uneasy friendship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz comes to electrifying life in the fast-lane social and literary milieu of 1960s L.A.

CHEF’S KISS • How MARIO CARBONE’S namesake restaurant—and its Italian maximalism—became the defining celebrity supper club of our era

THE BALLAD OF BITCOIN BONNIE AND CLYDE • COUPLES RARELY COMMIT CRIMES TOGETHER. BUT ILYA “DUTCH” LICHTENSTEIN AND HEATHER “RAZZLEKHAN” MORGAN,...