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The View from Here What was in it for Alice Huang?

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In and Out of the Doghouse Brigitte Bardot’s will provided for her beloved animals—but her husband is still fighting over the scraps

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Gaslighting Katy Perry With Russell Brand now in jail, friends and former staff describe how he controlled and belittled his then wife as her stardom eclipsed his own

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Plot Twist Jack Warnecke designed J.F.K.’s gravesite—then romanced Jackie

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Naughty and Nice: AIR MAIL Editors’ Picks From the bookish to the unabashedly extravagant, our editors have a few ideas about what makes a good gift. Some are for giving. Others are very much for keeping

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Cold Comfort You don’t need your own Kold-Draft machine or walk-in freezer to appreciate the magic of ice in all its many forms

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watch The Meetings of Anna Intimate, melancholy, and contemplative, The Meetings of Anna is a cinematic study of one woman’s… cook How To Cook A Wolf M. F. K. Fisher was not much of a student, and attended Occidental College for one year before dropping out in 1929 to move… read Corner Boy At the tender age of 18, Nik Cohn ravaged the Beatles as a music critic for Queen magazine. In 1969, at 23, he published… stay St. Regis A stone’s throw from the Danube sits a Belle Époque monument, hailing from the Austro-Hungarian golden age and designed by two… carry Balenciaga A rugged and rebellious carryall of the aughts, Balenciaga’s City Bag holds strong cultural capital while firmly remaining an emblem… decorate Pendleton x Thuma Thuma made its name on bed frames that assemble in minutes, require no tools, and look considerably more expensive than they are… watch The Meetings of Anna Intimate, melancholy, and contemplative, The Meetings of Anna is a cinematic study of one woman’s… cook How To Cook A Wolf M. F. K. Fisher was not much of a student, and attended Occidental College for one year before dropping out in 1929 to move… read Corner Boy At the tender age of 18, Nik Cohn ravaged the Beatles as a music critic for Queen magazine. In 1969, at 23, he published… stay St. Regis A stone’s throw from the Danube sits a Belle Époque monument, hailing from the Austro-Hungarian golden age and designed by two… carry Balenciaga A rugged and rebellious carryall of the aughts, Balenciaga’s City Bag holds strong cultural capital while firmly remaining an emblem… decorate Pendleton x Thuma Thuma made its name on bed frames that assemble in minutes, require no tools, and look considerably more expensive than they are…

To Have and to Hoard When does a carefully curated collection become an unruly obsession?

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Books

Secrets: A Reporter’s Memoir

by Bob Woodward
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From Nerano, with Love For 70 years, Lo Scoglio has lured movie stars, billionaires, and locals to a tiny bay on the Amalfi Coast. Now the legendary restaurant is coming to Manhattan, with hundreds of fried zucchini in tow

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Around the World in Culture

The Bogdanovich Diaries Script sessions with Larry McMurtry, advice from Orson Welles, and an on-set affair with Cybill Shepherd: a director’s-eye view of The Last Picture Show

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Hitler’s Grinning Executioners The co-creators of The Laramie Project are back with a new play, based on the true story of a salvaged Nazi photo album and the Holocaust Memorial Museum archivists who identified the cheerful SS officers in its pages

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Ceramic tiles depicting the Great Mosque of Mecca, painted in Iznik, Turkey, in the 17th century.

A Tale of One City

Forged by Greeks from the weapons of Persians vanquished in 479 B.C., the famed Serpent Column consisted of three bronze snakes twisted tight like rope, 26 feet tall. At the top, balanced on their heads, was a gold tripod and bowl that held offerings to Apollo’s sanctuary in Delphi. The tripod was stolen around 100 years later. What was left of the column was moved by the emperor Constantine the Great to Constantinople in 324 A.D. READ ON


Morgan Maher Five years into her photography career, the 31-year-old has become a darling of young stars such as Clairo, Rachel Sennott, and Emily Ratajkowski

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The Anti-Bora-Bora Forget large-scale resorts. With nine bungalows and an in-house shark nursery, a newly reopened private island reveals a quieter, wilder side of French Polynesia

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It’s apple-picking time. Jonagolds in aisle two!
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Issue No. 383
November 14, 2026
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Issue No. 383
November 14, 2026

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