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Hee-Haw, Taylor Swift!

It’s hard to recall a time when the singer wasn’t topping charts and bringing home Grammys. But her success was far from a sure bet

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

E. A. Hanks

Tom Hanks’s daughter makes her literary debut with a revelatory memoir

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

“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

Death at the “Fritz Ritz”

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

Private Predicaments and Natural Disasters

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

Hailee Steinfeld

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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

Her Again (Historically Informed)

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

Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a history of Russian espionage, a window into the world of snakes, and a curated guide to the best of international cinema

The Beatles’ Beating Heart