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On a recent Saturday, at a bar in New York City’s Tribeca, a couple of hundred young sports fans in T-shirts and baseball caps ordered light beers served in tall glasses and shouted over a...

There’s a girl. Let’s call her Emily.Emily is probably in her early 20s, but she might be as old as 35. She’s Internet savvy and college-educated; she lives in or near a city, works in...

Might Gwyneth Paltrow have been right all along? While Goop, her $252-million lifestyle empire, has ended up on the wrong end of a gazillion jokes about the insane shit on which bored, pampered, rich women...

With Donald Trump, there is no bottom, and there never has been. The writer Kurt Andersen has declared Trump to be the “greatest self-parodist of all time.” And who can argue? There’s something utterly absurd...

I didn’t want to startle him. Leaning snugly against the armrest at the far corner of the couch, he was so small and still I was compelled to tiptoe in. When I did speak, it...

Don Benito, in the western Spanish province of Badajoz, is a quaint, quiet town of 37,000. Whitewashed buildings, an imperial theater, and a museum on the banks of the Guadiana River play host to a...

If you’re stuck for something to watch this weekend, you may want to consider Scoop, Netflix’s attempt to dramatize the infamous 2019 Newsnight interview between Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew. This isn’t because the film...

When Nozomu Miyajima traveled to Switzerland for the Mountain Cheese Olympics, in 2004, no one really considered him a credible threat. But the little-known Japanese dairy farmer was armed with a secret weapon. Inside Miyajima’s...

This week, AIR SUPPLY tips a hat to the open range with a pioneering roundup of everything you need—from firestarters and a fringed jacket to cowboy-inspired fragrances—to feel at home in the wild, wild West

The acclaimed minimalist and former Calvin Klein creative director spotlights his thoughtful signatures, from Brazilian furniture to the shoes he wears no matter the occasion

Are your breasts high? Is your ponytail flush? Is there ample pep in your step? I can’t help you with all of the above—gravity is a beast, and hence the sagging of breasts and pep....

It must have been the craven Bible-peddling. Unless it was the crowing about winning trophies at his own golf club? However he did it, Donald Trump got 30 percent of your vote to win the...

Some go to Copenhagen for Noma, others for Tekla. The sustainable-fabric company, founded in 2017 by former Acne Studios hand ...

It’s rare that offbeat 80s movies hold up. Even the great John Hughes pictures have moments that seem ill-advised in retrospect. ...

Last month, Isaac Rangaswami launched his new Substack, Wooden City, as a spin-off to his enormously popular ...

Each week, Scamfluencers hosts Scaachi Koul and Sarah Hagi take on a new scam, plot, hoax, or ploy, each one juicier than ...

Many of us are searching for a way to skip through 2024, and the new novel 2054 is the ideal solution. Co-written by Elliot Ackerman, ...

’Tis the season when we can no longer stomach a winter coat, but the weather is not quite cooperative enough for a summer ...

Michael Mann thinks of directing from the inside out. Even when he’s working with established actors such as Robert De Niro and Daniel Day-Lewis, he focuses on providing a stimulus—through the script, choreography, and verbal...

“She was tough, quite fierce,” says the British photographer Ki Price of Dame Vivienne Westwood. “But it was amazing to work with someone who always knew what she wanted.”Westwood was fierce from the get-go, those...

The last time global hysteria reached fever pitch—with war in the Middle East and Asia, the threat of Russia in Europe, and mass protests everywhere—movies helped pop the thermometer and push Western culture to the...

Alexandra Fuller has long made loss her gain. Starting in 2001 with her first memoir, the terrifyingly fine Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, she has done the emotional math and kept score of...

Las Vegas hotel-casinos might seem sophisticated and squeaky-clean these days, with residencies by top artists such as U2 and Adele, Michelin-starred restaurants, and boldly eccentric architecture. But the bottom line is the same: beneath these...

This week, Kat Rosenfield explains how we are in the throes of a new sexual revolution. Yet where baby-boomers were obsessed with the practice of sex, Zoomers are more interested in the principle of it....

The Apollo Fountain sculpture at the Château de Versailles has finally returned from its first serious restoration in 100 years, just in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics, when the royal grounds will host the...

The locals were fond of calling the Tacuil, in the Calchaquí Valley of northwestern Argentina, Lugar de Descanso de Dios—the place where God rests. From the top of the ridge, it suddenly opened below us,...

Isabella Bowie designed her first pair of shoes when she was 12 years old. “They were bad. Terrible, in fact,” she tells me over coffee. “The drawing is still in my mom’s cupboard.” Now 30,...

“It takes an island to raise a hotel” might be a degradation of the old village/child saying, but here on Australia’s Kangaroo Island, a 40-minute flight from Adelaide, it is exactly what has happened.When hoteliers...

In her early 20s, Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen worked 350 days a year. She drank Frappuccinos for breakfast, smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, and downed a bottle of wine every night. Needless to...