Lunch with Ellen Barkin
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the Bronx-born actress recounts an unfortunate on-set merkin incident, waiting tables for the likes of Terrence Malick, and other adventures in Hollywood …
The AIR MAIL Survey
A quiz on the most important issues of the day …
The Saltwater King
When it comes to learning the art of fly-fishing for striped bass, New York’s editors, writers, and chefs all turn to the same puckish guide and former reality-TV star
A Most Wanted Man
Was M.I.6 agent Dick Ellis one of the worst traitors of the 20th century—or an unsung hero who first sounded the alarm on Pearl Harbor?
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
In Basel, Anne Sofie von Otter dismantles Schubert’s Winterreise, to transformative effect
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss the story of a family fight over inheritance, a history of the White House Situation Room, and a biography of the great sportswriter Grant Wahl
The Renegade’s Tale
In an interview, Margaret Atwood discusses everything from Donald Trump to her newest story, “Cut & Thirst”
Dafydd Jones’s Guide to New York City
The British photographer who captured Manhattan’s high society in the 80s and 90s shares his favorite—and most nostalgic—New York spots
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
Honor Levy
With My First Book, the very online It Girl is defining Gen Z fiction
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
Station Havens
A new book offers a dazzling tour of 20th- and 21st-century railway architecture, from Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof to Chengdu’s Line 9
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
Sex and the A.I. Girl
On this week’s podcast, Flora Gill reveals why so many people are having affairs with digital companions
Last House on the Trad Right
William F. Buckley Jr. learned his brand of conservative radicalism at his family’s sprawling Connecticut home, now up for sale
Soaringly Sozzled Onstage
Withnail and I is one of the most beloved—and bibulous—British films of all time. But can this bucolic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas be properly adapted into a play?
Oedipus Flex
Elizabeth Hurley’s erotic thriller—written and directed by her 22-year-old son—is one for the Freudians
The Afterlife of the Bauhaus
An exhibition in Weimar, Germany, untangles the contradictory legacy of the modernist movement amid the rise of Nazism
