Are crystals the new blood diamonds?

Gwyneth loves them, Adele can’t sing without them and Kim Kardashian uses them to deal with stress. Many of us are lured by their beauty and promise of mystical powers, but are ‘healing’ crystals connecting us to the earth – or harming it?

Left to rot: the new global effort to preserve lost monuments

From a railway run by children in Ljubljana to brutalist monuments in the Balkans, the Nonument Group maps abandoned 20th-century architecture

The queens of Alta Moda photographed by Domenico Dolce

    Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana’s coffee table book presents the queens of Alta Moda. Each Dolce and Stefano Gabbana’s fashion queen tells her own story. “I think a queen’s job is very difficult,” Domenico Dolce told townandcountrymag.com. Domenico Dolce began photographing the most beautiful women of his Alta Moda two years ago. The … Read more

Duchess of Sussex to guest edit September UK Vogue issue

Meghan curated edition about ‘Forces for Change’ focusing on inspiring women

Yogi Berra’s baseball bat and a $17,500 typewriter: a visit to the auction of Philip Roth’s estate

The great American novelist died last year – and a huge stash of personal effects went on sale last week. J Oliver Conroy went along