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Victorian London’s Last Illustrator

Rupert Everett Can’t Help Himself

The devastating male beauty of 80s and 90s cinema, the star of Another Country, Dance with a Stranger, and My Best Friend’s Wedding, plays a porno villain in the new British series Adult Material

Sex and the Ambitious Girl

Imagining what goes on in the mind of rich-husband collector Barbara Amiel

Duncan Hannah’s Sketchbook

Art House

Following a four-year, $26-million renovation, West London’s newest arts center, Cromwell Place, is open for business

Jane After Jann

25 years after the split of Jane and Jann Wenner, a close friend reflects on Jane’s stoic second act

The Home Front

To guide her through some of the world’s most dangerous places, the veteran war correspondent drew from a lifetime of her mom’s advice

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Learning to Fly

Step off the edge with Bruce Springsteen, Bon Iver, Rostam, Billie Holiday, and more

A Moveable Feast—Partying in Europe, Dining in N.Y.C.

A new podcast from AIR MAIL featuring spirited chat about the week’s top stories

Where Have All the Thinkers Gone?

Editors at Bloomberg and The Economist make the case for a 21st-century Hobbes to solve our coronavirus woes

Murder, They Wrote

Tainted Love

Trump’s Spitting Image

Get ready for a new cast of puppets—Beyoncé! Bezos! Kardashians! Kanye! Ivanka! Thunberg! Zuckerberg!—as Britain’s biting, satirical, take-no-prisoners Spitting Image returns to television

Lindsey Graham Serves a Stiff One

What if he loses his Senate seat and opens a slightly dowdy gay bar called Feathers?

Hockney’s Normandy Invasion

The artist’s most recent work, inspired by his sojourn in the north of France, goes on show this month at Paris’s Galerie Lelong

Sophie’s Choice

Sophie Ward, the model and actress whose coming-out shocked the world, has written a book

Squaring the Circle

A photographer chronicles the curious phenomenon of crop circles and the dreamers they attract

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Goldberg Inversions

And now, for the next act from Dan Tepfer, jazz pianist and most genial of polymaths: a digitally enabled rendition of J.S. Bach’s epochal Goldberg Variations

Quilting Queens (and Kings)

New exhibitions showcase the work of Black artists using cloth as their canvas. They’re honoring a legacy dating back to slavery, when quilts served as navigational signals on the Underground Railroad