T’s May 21 Travel Issue

Highlights

India’s Lost Party Mansions
The country’s Chettinad region is full of architectural relics in various states of decaying opulence. For some inhabitants, the extravagance goes on; for others, it is a memory slipping away.
By Nancy Hass
CreditAnthony Cotsifas
In the Footsteps of Marcel Proust
The legendary filmmaker William Friedkin recalls his obsession with “In Search of Lost Time,” and his attempt to see the novel in real life.
By William Friedkin
CreditPatrick Tourneboeuf
The Season’s Swimsuits and Knits, on Real Girls in Wales
The fleeting allure of summer and youth takes shape in pieces worn by British beauties.

CreditPhotograph by Jamie Hawkesworth. Styled by Marie-Amélie Sauvé
The Ghosts of Turin
Just beneath the surface of this postindustrial city is a booming cultural capital, steeped in its own history and with a mysterious dark side.
By Nikil Saval
CreditJackie Nickerson

L.A.’s Vintage Bookstores
These shops — and their keepers — offer a window into the heart of a surprisingly literary city.
By Lesley M. M. Blume
CreditJoe Leavenworth
In New Yorkers’ Vacation Homes, Less Is More
Three weekend cottages of enviable simplicity.
By Hannah Goldfield
CreditBlaine Davis
The Technicolor World of Anna Sui
The free-spirited fashion designer shares her inspirations.
By Alexander Fury
CreditBill Cunningham, reprinted with permission from the Cunningham Estate
Profile in Style
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young African Immigrant
Yaa Gyasi and Toyin Ojih Odutola — both born in Africa and raised in the same Alabama town — have become two of the finest observers of race in America.
By Taiye Selasi
CreditNicholas Calcott

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A Cultural Compendium: 7 Things We’re Into Right Now
Highlights from the worlds of fashion, food and art.
Running Free in Germany’s Outdoor Preschools
Without toys and largely unsupervised, children climb and cook and howl like wolves in the wilderness.
By Alice Gregory
In the Air
Flowermania — It’s in the Air
From fashion to home design, it’s the season of bright, beautiful blooms.
A Picture and a Poem
An Artist and a Poet Consider Commitment
For T’s ongoing series, the artist Charles Gaines responded to a poem by Nick Laird.
By Design
In Praise of Splatter-Painted Floors
The uncomplicated appeal of an obscure New England style.
By Alexa Brazilian
Scotland’s Love Affair With Seaweed
What used to be a Victorian fad — collecting it became a craze for genteel women (including the queen) — is now big business.
By Annalena Mcafee
Market Report
8 Candy-Colored Summer Boots
In every shade of the rainbow, these thigh-high pairs pack a bright punch.
Making It
The Beautifully Flawed Work of Emerging Ceramists
From all over the globe, these four breakout female talents embrace imperfection.
By Alexa Brazilian
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Illustrated Interview | Neil deGrasse Tyson
The astrophysicist, whose new book, ‘‘Astrophysics for People in a Hurry,’’ was published this month by W.W. Norton & Company, sketched his answers in his living room with a Mont Blanc Meisterstück 146 fountain pen.
By Gabé Doppelt
Profile in Style: Anna Sui
From her old apartment on 16th Street to some of her most prized possessions, the designer brings T into her world — with 18 photographs.