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In this week’s food issue, Dana Goodyear writes about the rise of secret supper clubs, and visits Wolvesmouth, the underground Los Angeles restaurant run by the chef Craig Thornton out of his apartment: “Around the world, cooks, both trained and not, are hosting sporadic, legally questionable supper clubs and dinner parties in unofficial spaces,” whose goal “is not seduction; it is experience”.

Photograph by Jessica Craig-Martin.

“Desire is suffering. The Lakers are an illusion. Jobs are an illusion. Kobe is an illusion…”

LARRY FINK: THE VANITIES

Larry Fink on the Vanity Fair Oscar parties: ““This is the party of parties, they say. At a party, and especially a party such as this, everyone wants to be seen. How they are seen is another matter, and I take that matter into my hands.”

Click through for more images from Fink’s latest book, “The Vanities,” culled from nine years of work at the Vanity Fair Oscar parties.