Reflections

What happens when a bad-tempered, distractible doofus runs an empire ? After a London teen mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his parents discovered that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son . Why you can’t get a restaurant reservation . Is it O.K. to eat any type of meat ? The pious wife of the Marquis de Sade . Personal History by Nora Ephron: to move into the Apthorp was to enter a state of giddy, rent-stabilized delirium . Sign up for our daily newsletter to receive the best stories from The New Yorker .

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