Batsheva Hay’s Guide to the Upper West Side
The fashion designer shares her go-to spots in the New York neighborhood
What’s on Trump’s Birthday Playlist?
Trump’s favorite songs offer an unsettling glimpse into his mind: Broadway schmaltz, masculine bombast, and an eerie indifference to the world going up in flames
All You Need Is George Martin
The genteel record producer did not look the part of a revolutionary. But as a commemorative new book makes clear, his wildly innovative work with the Beatles changed pop music forever
Rebecca Ressler
The owner of Hollywood Books has turned her small, finely curated bookstore into a Los Angeles literary hot spot, drawing guests such as Kaia Gerber and Petra Collins
Barbara Hepworth’s True Colors
An exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, in London, reveals how the British modernist brought color into her abstract sculptures and geometric drawings
The View from Here
Announcing the return of AIR MAIL’s Tom Wolfe Prizes for Fiction & Reportage!!!!!!!
The Tweet Escape
San Francisco gave away $70 million in tax revenue to lure the nascent social-media company to its bleakest neighborhood. Was it worth it?
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss: the five Cambridge grads who spied for Stalin, how birds evolved from dinosaurs, and a W.W.II novel following two Black U.S. soldiers and a Jewish boy
Phila Lorn’s Guide to Philadelphia
The James Beard-awarded chef of Mawn and Sao shares his go-to spots in the city he calls home
Joe Anders
The 22-year-old son of Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes is carving out a film career on his own terms, with a Netflix screenplay under his belt and a new role alongside Amy Adams and Javier Bardem
Bigger, Better, Starrier
Twelve years after its brief run on Broadway, Sting brings The Last Ship, his autobiographical passion project, to the Metropolitan Opera House
WAGs Just Want to Have Fun
Victoria Beckham, Shakira, Georgina Rodríguez … In time for the World Cup, a look at the wives and girlfriends of soccer players who have long stolen the spotlight from the beautiful game
“We’d Just Never Seen Anything Like It”
In the summer of 1976, the Sex Pistols played two sparsely attended shows in Manchester. Among the few who did turn up were future members of Buzzcocks, the Fall, the Smiths, and Joy Division
The Soul Singer from North London
With songs like “Father Figure” and “Careless Whisper,” George Michael became the first white solo artist to lead the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart—re-drawing the boundaries of the genre forever
Slouching Towards Istanbul
What a decade in Erdoğan’s authoritarian Turkey taught me about the long, bloody shadow of America’s foreign wars
Luis Laplace’s Guide to Minorca
The Argentinean architect shares his go-to spots on the Spanish island
The Eternal Child
A new documentary sheds fresh light on Louis Malle, the nouvelle vague contemporary whose films tackled complicated subjects with innocence and curiosity
The Hardest Day’s Night
With photographs by Jim Marshall, a new coffee-table book revisits the charged, melancholy night the Beatles played the last concert of their final tour
