Meghan Mangrum knew exactly what she was doing when she called Dallas mayor Eric Johnson “bruh.” The former Dallas Morning News education reporter had just read a tweet from Johnson—the city’s second-ever Black mayor—criticizing local...

New York, November 6, 2007— Auction NightThe doorman at Christie’s is named Gil. He is a mustachioed force of energy, charm, and manners, and he spins the glass door with such vigor that you don’t...

David Sirota opened Slack at 4:35 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, March 10, and typed three letters: “OMG.” Then he pasted a link to a 220-page PDF of eight-year-old congressional testimony showing the president of...

Residents of the Upper East Side tend to stick to the familiar. They order their cappuccinos from Via Quadronno and dine over spaghetti primavera at Sette Mezzo or hamburgers at J. G. Melon. The women...

This week, AIR SUPPLY takes a hue or two from the great outdoors with a collection of earth tones, organic textures, and ecologically minded offerings. Whether you're setting the table or settling down by the...

The James Beard–nominated chef behind New York's King, Jupiter, and Stissing House reveals the items she turns to while cooking—and more of her daily necessities

It takes a lot to shake the BBC. Established 101 years ago to inform, educate, and entertain the people of Britain in equal measure, the national broadcaster has in its time weathered World Wars and...

Here we are, a dozen or so installments into the Attention-Whore Index, and we’ve come full circle. Prince Harry dominated the early going, his reign lasting six straight weeks, a couple of those wins shared...

Last week, three members of the staff at Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service with suspected far-right connections were suspended, prompting an internal review by the agency. Just a few weeks earlier, 18 police officers in Germany...

Beauty secrets used to be secret. You blocked out the evening, bolted the doors, silenced all notifications, and got busy. Maybe you stippled your face with Mario Badescu Drying Lotion, coated your bikini line with...

Imagine you are an elite-level cyclist in a tight pack of competitors, seconds from the finish line. You feel you have the strength in your legs for one last push to win, but you need...

In the late 1970s, the Loro Piana family went on a mission to find the world’s finest cashmere. They landed in Inner Mongolia. Fifty years ...

In 1994, Marie Angliviel de la Beaumelle founded her glassware company, Laguna B, on the shores of Murano, an isle in the Venetian ...

I used to scroll blindly and endlessly through Instagram and Pinterest for outfit-and-styling inspiration ...

All seems quiet on the Mulberry’s velvet front because Cindy, the gatekeeper dressed in fur, keeps it that way. “Reservation,” she states ...

Some mothers and daughters bond over sweets, alcohol, and gossip. For others, it’s phillumeny. That’s the official term for the hobby ...

Oh, I suppose I could spend all day Sunday making soup, but, then again, life beckons. Plus, the good people at Eleven Madison Park

No fantasy-fulfillment lunch at a palazzo in Tuscany is complete without a bottle of Sassicaia, a full couture outfit, and a local princess sitting across the table, serving you a plate of gnocchi. That is,...

In many parts of Turks and Caicos, an idyllic archipelago in the Caribbean, the sound of jackhammers is nearly constant. It hasn’t deterred visitors.Take the southeast side of Providenciales island, where Windward Development is building...

Working on my biography of Mel Brooks, I was struck by how such a phenomenal, colossal success could be such a poet of failure. Well, maybe more precisely, of success through failure.It’s most famously on...

This week, Stuart Heritage joins us from the U.K. to chat about the scandal that has embroiled two of the country’s institutions: the BBC and Premier League soccer. And while we are in the U.K.,...

On March 10, AIR MAIL Co-Editor Alessandra Stanley and Deputy Editor Nathan King sat down with Ken Auletta—the New Yorker writer and author of several books including, most recently, Hollywood Ending, on Harvey Weinstein’s rise...

There are few writers whose work is more eagerly anticipated than that of the novelist Mona Simpson. Ever since her first book, Anywhere but Here, became a best-seller after being published in 1986, Simpson has...

In Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris, aspiring novelist Gil Pender lives out the fantasy of meeting his literary heroes. Transported to the merry-go-round of 1920s Paris, he drinks with Ernest Hemingway, flirts with F....

As much as the world sterilizes, optimizes, or flattens the many joys in life, fragrance has stayed remarkably intact. It is one of the few things that threads us together with the natural world and...

Reveling in the fleeting moment of “now,” paper dresses of the 1960s offered a shiny new page of futuristic simplicity during fashion’s most tumultuous decade. An unlikely marriage of avant-garde design and the promotional arms...

One of the many valuable things about Theresa Runstedtler’s Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA is that it serves as a reminder of many forgotten...

At the beginning of 1943, Heinrich Himmler’s personal masseur, a podgy Finn named Felix Kersten, learned of a diabolical Nazi plan to starve to death the people of occupied France, Belgium and Holland by looting...

Now that the war in Ukraine has moved into its second year, we can likely look forward to a flood of thrillers on that subject. Meanwhile, here are three books that deal with different aspects...

There are design studios, and then there is Pentagram. It’s nearly impossible to believe that the firm was created just over 50 years ago, partly because design firms usually do not outlast their founders (there...

“Timeless” is a good way to describe actress Kyra Sedgwick, whose film-and-television career now spans more than four decades. It’s also a common adjective ascribed to her directorial debut, Space Oddity, a science-fiction love story...