Creative Split

From New York, Rich Cohen explains how Harry Macklowe’s epically calamitous divorce has billionaire art collectors salivating …

The Ever Shrinking Island

In London, John Sweeney confronts the spoils of Boris’s Brexit: empty pantries, gas lines, labor shortages, and a long, cold winter …

K-Pop Goes the Weasel!

From Squid Game to Parasite to music stars, Korean culture is conquering the world …

A Walk on the Wild Side

David Yaffe takes a look at Todd Haynes’s provocative new documentary on the Velvet Underground and Lou Reed …

Mane Attraction

He became the face (and chest) of lusty romance novels. Forty years on, we comb through Fabio’s crazy life story …

Great Scot

Brian Cox might star as Logan Roy on Succession, but as Peter Biskind discovers in a new memoir, he is a man for all seasons …

Issue No. 118

The View from Here Fuel shortages, empty supermarket shelves, and bleak holidays ahead: in London, Brexit is finally making itself heard

By John Sweeney

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The Modern Art of Divorce What’s bad for billionaires Harry and Linda Macklowe is very, very good for art collectors

By Rich Cohen

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Chic Korea Squid Game, Parasite, BTS—there’s a “K-” revolution afoot, and for once that prefix isn’t followed by “ardashian”

By Madeleine Spence

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We’ll Always Have Fabio How does a certain bronzed male model with free-flowing golden hair stay relevant? By remaining every bit himself … and sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber

By Louis Wise

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Underneath the Velvet Underground Todd Haynes turns to documentary to get at the heart of Lou Reed’s 1960s New York City band

By David Yaffe

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In London, Love (and Much More) Is in the Air Frieze returns to town and gets the city hopping

By Ashley Baker

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Tracey Emin greets admirers outside Shreeji Newsagents.

Gabriel Chipperfield, Laura de Gunzburg, Harry Weller, and the scene outside.

*Top,* Emin’s works; *above,* Bridget Arsenault, Ashley Baker, and Joseph Bullmore.

*Top,* Emin’s new book; *above,* Steven Wallis and Gabby O’Brien.

*Top,* Emin signing cards; *above,* Tom Chamberlin, Joseph Bullmore, and Daisy Knatchbull.

Ellie Cullen, Damian Henniger, and Victoria Abel

*Top,* Zeynep Utku; *above,* Charlie Porter.

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Space Cadet William Shatner goes where no actor has gone before

By John Ficarra

Illustration by Barry Blitt

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Room Service, Please!

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My Favorite Things After spending more than 20 years as a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, Amy Fine Collins is now synonymous with high fashion. Herewith, the AIR MAIL Editor at Large shares her top shopping picks of the moment

By Amy Fine Collins

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In Good Time From Ryan Gosling to race-car-inspired limited editions, our new resident watch expert pulls back the curtain on the chronometer industry’s sexiest scoop

By Nicholas Foulkes

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Italy’s Best Pizza Isn’t Where You Think It Is Welcome to Caiazzo, home of the inside-out-margherita restaurant drawing crowds from all over the world

By Elena Clavarino

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Hidden Gems

While on a trip to Russia in 1911 to court new clients, Louis Cartier sent a letter to his father, Alfred, writing, “It seems to me that the selections of new items we should offer for sale must inevitably be the Russian or even Persian style.” By this time, Louis had been collecting Islamic art for several years, having seen the exhibition of Islamic art at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 1903, in Paris, and an important 1910 exhibition of Islamic art in Munich. READ ON

Among the treasures going on display at Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs next week are a Cartier bib necklace in gold, platinum, diamond, amethyst, and turquoise, commissioned in 1947 by the Duke of Windsor for the Duchess of Windsor, and a sketch proposal for a Cartier powder box.

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Cheetah Cheaters in Saudi Arabia And other strange news about these curious days …

By George Kalogerakis

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The Podcast You Need to Hear From scheming patriarchs to the world’s best pizza, we’ve got it all this week

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Susan Soon He Stanton The playwright and screenwriter takes us into the Succession writers’ room

By Jensen Davis

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The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America

by Catherine Prendergast

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12 Bytes: How We Got Here, Where We Might Go Next

by Jeanette Winterson

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He’s More than Logan Roy In his new memoir, Brian Cox recounts his journey from growing up poor in Scotland to ruling Succession

By Peter Biskind

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“We need to find another school for Jessie. One of her classes is called ‘So-Called Science.’”

Around the World with Oscar Wilde Following in Wilde’s footsteps, from his birthplace of Dublin to the Peloponnese, the American Midwest, and the prison he spent the better part of two years in

By Matthew Sturgis

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Sparkle David Yurman In the event that you are a) looking for new jewelry, and b) looking to support breast-cancer research, David Yurman has just the thing…

Layer Ralph Lauren We know, we know. It’s only October. But unrepentant shoppers are aware that the very best winter coats hit the racks early and sell out quickly…

Listen Culm We’re always on the hunt for the perfect nightcap. Enter the new podcast by comedians Noah Weiner and Landon Lichtenstein…

Reserve Evelyn’s Table Perhaps the best ingredient for a new restaurant opening in London is three talented brothers all under the age of 30. Luke, Nathaniel,…

Apply RMS Beauty In the mid-2000s, after decades working as a fashion-world makeup artist, Rose-Marie Swift became quite ill with a sickness…

Spread Big Spoon Roasters The question that keeps me up at night is not which brand of nut butter is the best, because it is, without a doubt, Big Spoon Roasters…

Sparkle David Yurman In the event that you are a) looking for new jewelry, and b) looking to support breast-cancer research, David Yurman has just the thing…

Layer Ralph Lauren We know, we know. It’s only October. But unrepentant shoppers are aware that the very best winter coats hit the racks early and sell out quickly…

Listen Culm We’re always on the hunt for the perfect nightcap. Enter the new podcast by comedians Noah Weiner and Landon Lichtenstein…

Reserve Evelyn’s Table Perhaps the best ingredient for a new restaurant opening in London is three talented brothers all under the age of 30. Luke, Nathaniel,…

Apply RMS Beauty In the mid-2000s, after decades working as a fashion-world makeup artist, Rose-Marie Swift became quite ill with a sickness…

Spread Big Spoon Roasters The question that keeps me up at night is not which brand of nut butter is the best, because it is, without a doubt, Big Spoon Roasters…

Turning Heads on St. Barth’s On an island that does not lack for hotels, there’s something special about Le Toiny

By Ashley Baker

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Martha Stewart

The indefatigable entrepreneur answers 30 of life’s most pressing questions

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“I wanted to get away from my computer and focus on doing something different. Just mixing various fabrics on the canvas gave me a playful feeling of dressing up without actually putting clothing on.”

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The View from Here Fuel shortages, empty supermarket shelves, and bleak holidays ahead: in London, Brexit is finally making itself heard

The Modern Art of Divorce What’s bad for billionaires Harry and Linda Macklowe is very, very good for art collectors

Chic Korea Squid Game, Parasite, BTS—there’s a “K-” revolution afoot, and for once that prefix isn’t followed by “ardashian”

We’ll Always Have Fabio How does a certain bronzed male model with free-flowing golden hair stay relevant? By remaining every bit himself … and sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber

Underneath the Velvet Underground Todd Haynes turns to documentary to get at the heart of Lou Reed’s 1960s New York City band

In London, Love (and Much More) Is in the Air Frieze returns to town and gets the city hopping

Space Cadet William Shatner goes where no actor has gone before

Few things in life are better than a visit to a familiar, first-rate hotel. So after you check in and order up a club sandwich, spoil yourself with these special discoveries from, and reminiscent of, favorite properties around the globe—as well as some items to get you there in style

My Favorite Things After spending more than 20 years as a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, Amy Fine Collins is now synonymous with high fashion. Herewith, the AIR MAIL Editor at Large shares her top shopping picks of the moment

In Good Time From Ryan Gosling to race-car-inspired limited editions, our new resident watch expert pulls back the curtain on the chronometer industry’s sexiest scoop

Italy’s Best Pizza Isn’t Where You Think It Is Welcome to Caiazzo, home of the inside-out-margherita restaurant drawing crowds from all over the world

Cheetah Cheaters in Saudi Arabia And other strange news about these curious days …

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Around the World with Oscar Wilde Following in Wilde’s footsteps, from his birthplace of Dublin to the Peloponnese, the American Midwest, and the prison he spent the better part of two years in

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