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Terroir Terror

A former sommelier at a four-star New York City restaurant recalls a harrowing sexual assault she experienced behind the scenes of the fine-dining world

Requiem for a Continent

Ahead of Earth Day, photojournalist Guillaume Bonn’s haunting images expose the dark side of Africa’s wildlife havens, which are increasingly falling victim to unchecked industrialism

The Blood of an Englishman

One of the most sensational murders in recent British history becomes, in Robert Icke’s Manhunt, a moving disquisition on male rage, societal failure, and madness

Tintoretto’s Magnum Opus

An exhibition in Cincinnati unveils three newly restored works by the Italian Renaissance painter and rival of Titian

Taylor Swift, Harvard M.B.A.?

On this week’s podcast, Kevin Evers reveals the business insights we all can steal from Tay-Tay

Paper Trails

A charming new exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum, in Amherst, pays tribute to an often overlooked aspect of picture book–making: endpapers

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a mountain climber’s account of sailing from Maine to Alaska, an examination of the air we breathe, and a look back at J.F.K. and Nikita Khrushchev’s Cold War–era diplomacy

False Prophets

How an investigation into a Mormon murder spree led one author to uncover the lurid world of America’s New Age movement—cult leaders, reincarnation, QAnon, and all

Annabelle Selldorf’s Guide to Cologne

The German architect behind the Frick Collection’s new renovation shares her favorite restaurants, sights, and shops in her hometown

Palm Springs Eternal

Two new coffee-table books capture the timeless allure of Palm Springs, a favorite destination of Sinatra and Capote and a birthplace of modernist architecture

Death at the “Fritz Ritz”

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Hidden Treasures

An exhibition on the anonymous creators behind pieces for the best Paris maisons, from Cartier to Boucheron, offers a master class in the art of jewelry-making

Private Predicaments and Natural Disasters

Meghan Daum wrote a book called The Catastrophe Hour. Three months before it was published, her house burned down.

A Forgotten Master of Pulp Fiction

The only thing more noir than the work of writer Cornell Woolrich may have been his own life

The Trump Administration’s West Wing

Lunch with Graydon Carter

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, AIR MAIL’s Co-Editor embraces being compared to Buddy from Elf, explains how creativity could help you get into the Vanity Fair Oscar party, and more

Matthew Rhys Gets Personal

The Welsh actor discusses meeting his wife, Keri Russell, on The Americans—and his role in the new Agatha Christie adaptation, Towards Zero

Hallucinating Graydon Carter

Following the publication of When the Going Was Good, A.I.-generated rip-offs have flooded the market—how do they stack up?

“Brad Pitt’s” Kidney Transplant and the French Divorcée

On this week’s podcast, Mark Seal explains how amateur sleuths busted a multi-national cyber-scam

The Mother of Surrealism

How one woman born into a world on the brink of turmoil inspired Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, André Breton, and the love of her life, Salvador Dalí

Hailee Steinfeld

The True Grit child star returns to the big screen with Sinners, starring alongside Michael B. Jordan

Her Again (Historically Informed)

Bizet’s Carmen more or less as it looked and played in 1875, when the opera was new

The Beatles’ Beating Heart