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A Conspiracy of One

When high-profile members of the British Establishment—including a former prime minister—were accused of being pedophiles, the country tore itself apart trying to find the truth

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The New College Try A dispatch from inside the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University


Single-Mother’s Day World War II left my mother a widow. But I didn’t have to go looking for a father figure. I had Irma

Latest Issue • May 11, 2024
Issue No. 252
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New Arrivals

Best in Show Let this weekend’s Westminster Dog Show serve as a welcome reminder that our four-legged friends—and most loyal companions, at that—deserve nothing less than the royal treatment. Herewith, tail-wagging treats for pets of all shapes and sizes—and their doting owners too

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O.K., Groomer A reporter’s dispatch from the trenches of the gender-and-sexuality wars in schools across the U.S. portends a perilous future for L.G.B.T.Q. teens

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The Fame Game The Harvard Law professor Cass R. Sunstein’s new book, How to Become Famous, explores the idea of fame and how it happens, from the Beatles to Taylor Swift

Life and Death In My Time of Dying, a new memoir by Sebastian Junger, sees the author coming face to face with death and the idea of an afterlife


Murder, They Wrote This month’s best mystery books range from a thriller spelling out the origins of Fascism in England to a literary whodunit reminiscent of The Thursday Murder Club

The Afterlife of the Bauhaus An exhibition in Weimar, Germany, untangles the contradictory legacy of the modernist movement amid the rise of Nazism

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Guest Edit

Plum Sykes’s Favorite Things The Gloucestershire-based author of Bergdorf Blondes, The Debutante Divorcée, and the newly released Wives Like Us shares her favorite trappings of the upper class, including the perfect pumps, luxury nail polish, and cheap Bordeaux

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My Name Is Barbra’s Index Barbra Streisand’s memoir is 992 pages long with no index in sight. So AIR MAIL made one for her!

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