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Ties That Bind • Mary H.K. Choi didn’t imagine herself getting married, but when her partner needed a way to stay in the country she found herself facing the complexities of love and immigration.

Material Girl • How Eileen Kelly transformed a 1920s Los Angeles fixer-upper into her whimsical, pattern-happy new home.

FLIGHTS OF FANCY • Summer fiction heads to unexpected places.

LEARNING CURVE • Mattie Kahn explores the mind-bending power of trying something new.

Canvas and Closet • Stylish exhibitions are popping up all over. Here’s what to see this summer.

FORCE OF NATURE • With our country’s national parks and public lands under increasing threat, Nicole Phelps sets up camp in southern Utah’s splendor.

CULTURAL COUTURE • For Indigenous artists, earrings are much more than statement jewelry—they’re powerful markers of tradition.

Earthly Delights • Tamar Adler traverses the globe, seeking the ultimate potato.

IT’S IN THE CARDS • From Christian Dior to Gabriela Hearst and Jonathan Anderson, fashion’s obsession with tarot—on the runway and away from it—is both enduring and on the rise.

CHARMED, I’M SURE • Jewelry—and all forms of novel adornment—migrates to the hair.

FABRIC OF A NATION • In honor of America’s 250th birthday, Vogue, the CFDA, and America250 commissioned American designers to reinterpret the flags of all the USA’s states and territories. Before they fly at Rockefeller Center later this summer, they were fashioned into quilts—and Don Brodie photographed them, from sea to shining sea.

SINCERELY YOURS • CANDOR IS GRACIE ABRAMS’S STRONG SUIT, AND HER NEW ALBUM GIVES US EVERYTHING: AN LA CHILDHOOD, HER ROCKET SHIP RISE, A LONDON ROMANCE. “ME IN PROGRESS,” SHE TELLS BRITTANY SPANOS.

ARRIVAL • THE LUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ART—AN OTHERWORLDLY ARCHITECTURAL LANDMARK IN LA—IS A PAEAN TO STORYTELLING WRIT VERY, VERY LARGE. GEORGE LUCAS AND MELLODY HOBSON GIVE NATHAN HELLER A PREOPENING TOUR.

Coming Home • We set off across Texas on a sprawling mission: to document and pay tribute to the state’s dancers, ranchers, cowboys and rodeo riders, designers, church choirs, marching bands, and models—in short, the communities and characters rewriting the American narrative.

WAYS OF SEEING • Michael Rider—a curious kid from Washington, DC, who grew up with little interest in fashion—is bringing his joyous, optimistic vision to the quintessentially Parisian label Celine.

Root and Branch • For Deb Haaland—whose Pueblo ancestors have lived in New Mexico for centuries—winning the governor’s race would be historic. It would also make her daughter proud.

GOLDEN STATE • TWO YOUNG CALIFORNIANS, LEARNER TIEN AND IVA JOVIC, HAVE PUT TENNIS’S PRO TOUR ON NOTICE.

400 YEARS YOUNG • In a fresh—and urgent—New York production of Romeo and Juliet, director Saheem Ali moves the classic teenage love story to the US-Mexico border. Juan A. Ramírez explores how the play can still defy expectations.

RUN OF PLAY • ON THE EVE OF THE WORLD CUP, SIX MEMBERS OF THE US MEN’S SOCCER SQUAD PUT ON GAME FACES—AND A FEW OF THE SEASON’S BRIGHTEST LOOKS—FOR A FASHIONABLE KICK AROUND.

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