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Rally the Troops

A Ukrainian journalist’s firsthand account of Russia’s invasion of his country

The Madness of Madoff

Xuetong Wang’s Sketchbook

The Patron Saint of Canoeing

The amiable adventurer Bill Mason was like a cross between David Attenborough and Bob Ross

In Bed with Marvin Gaye

In an unpublished interview—given months before he was shot dead 40 years ago—the Prince of Soul talked police brutality, European decency, and his explicit new single

Dream Time Alfresco

Way above 96th Street, Shakespeare’s midsummer madness in classical Harlem Renaissance style

All You Need Is Loot

The market for Beatles memorabilia is valued in the billions and continues to climb. But will your kids care if you own John and Yoko’s Delft porcelain toilet?

Graydon Carter on Joe Biden’s Future

On this week’s podcast, AIR MAIL’s co-editor talks about why the president needs to drop out

Seaside Splendors

A new book spotlights the Amalfi Coast’s most picturesque homes

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Very Deadly Year

Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Georges Simenon all published murderous masterpieces in the same year. Why?

Going Rogue

Going Deep

A paleontology professor details the long history of great white sharks—and reveals what it feels like looking one in the eyes

Air Mail Environments: New York

Our latest creation will immerse you in New York’s glorious sounds, from the hallowed atrium of the Metropolitan Opera to the clank and churn of the Staten Island Ferry

Risko’s Sketchbook

Born and Broken in the U.S.A.

The glory days of the heartland Bruce Springsteen evoked on Born in the U.S.A. 40 years ago feel like a distant memory in today’s America

The No. 1 from Hell

Recorded for the soundtrack to Four Weddings and a Funeral, “Love Is All Around” was so popular that even the band who sang it grew tired of its success

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Murder, They Wrote

This month’s best mystery books, podcasts, and TV series

The Rest Is Fiction

Phillip Toledano’s A.I.-generated photographs of 1940s and 1950s New York, collected in a new book, blur the line between truth and fantasy

Flying into a Rage

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is furious at airlines, mad at airports, and apoplectic about his fellow passengers not being as angry as he is

Down and Out in 90s America

Demimonde Dreaming