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Hollywood Diaries

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Doherty

After playing cheeky bad boys in High Fidelity and Gossip Girl, the 29-year-old actor is taking on a much darker role in his first indie film, Dandelion

Frida’s Missing Masterpiece

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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”

Better by Design

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

Rally the Troops

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

Bedroom Politics

A Very Deadly Year

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

Xuetong Wang’s Sketchbook

The Patron Saint of Canoeing

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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?

Going Rogue

The Madness of Madoff

Seaside Splendors

A new book spotlights the Amalfi Coast’s most picturesque homes

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