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Trumping for Britain

Nigel Farage, the English far-right populist and friend of Trump, pauses from celebrating his recent election to Parliament to rail against the woke elite’s hold on … mathematics

It’s Complicated

A former PBS producer who was sexually harassed by her then boss, Charlie Rose, reflects on what #MeToo got wrong about women in the workplace

The Troubles of Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The author of the best-selling Fleishman Is in Trouble has money issues, religious worries, and anxiety about her next novel. It’s not easy being “the female Philip Roth”

You’re Only as Old as You Look

A new Tom Hanks film uses groundbreaking A.I. technology to transform the actor into his fresh-faced, 1980s self

Frida’s Missing Masterpiece

Frida Kahlo’s painting The Wounded Table vanished in 1955. The hunt for it continues

Who’s to Blame for the Biden Mess?

On this week’s podcast, Todd S. Purdum discusses how we got here—and what’s next

La Ville Lumière, According to Honoré de Balzac

Hollywood Diaries

Better by Design

From postwar European churches to post-revolution Cuba, two new books chart the rise of midcentury modernism

Ozempic Meets Its Match

From Emmeline Clein’s Dead Weight to Emma Specter’s More, Please, fat-phobia and eating disorders are getting the literary treatment in this year’s Zeitgeisty nonfiction releases

FAMM Fatales

Europe’s first private museum dedicated solely to art made by women opens in Mougins, France, featuring works by Frida Kahlo, Lee Krasner, and Marina Abramović

Chain Gang

Trump adds a condition for aspiring vice-presidential candidates

Bedroom Politics

Rally the Troops

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

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

Dream Time Alfresco

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

Going Rogue

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?

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The Patron Saint of Canoeing

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

A Very Deadly Year

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

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

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