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KNIVES OUT

Chefs Liz Johnson and Will Aghajanian met at Noma, fell in love, and opened Horses, the buzzy L.A. restaurant, before allegations of emotional, physical, and feline abuse took them down. Now Aghajanian breaks his silence …

SLIDING DOORS, PRINCE ANDREW EDITION

Former Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal imagines a world in which Charles died alongside Diana, and Andrew became King, dismissed his Epstein ties as deepfakes, and triggered Trump’s impeachment. (We don’t hate it!) …

HANNAH MONTANA HAS A COLD

After Miley Cyrus refused to speak to her, Carolina de Armas sought out the pop star’s inner circle to talk about Hannah Montana, the Disney show that launched Cyrus to worldwide fame and is celebrating its 20th anniversary …

DOWN BAD AND UNDER

Dropped by Netflix and eyeing her next hustle, Meghan has signed on as a motivational speaker at an Australian wellness retreat, where she’s not even headlining (oy, oy, oy!), reports Hilary Rose …

BITTER SUITE

Points guests are flooding five-star hotels—and driving away the clientele that actually pays. Mark Ellwood checks in on the growing parade of freeloaders turning a loyalty perk into a luxury headache …

NO RESERVATIONS

Phil Rosenthal, of Everybody Loves Raymond, and Nancy Silverton, of Osteria Mozza, tell David T. Friendly how their 40-seat, no-frills, and utterly charming diner in L.A.’s Larchmont neighborhood came to be …

BIGGER FISH TO FLY

Anglers, listen up! Our resident fly-fisherman David Coggins says Patagonia is passé and the Spanish Pyrenees are where the real action is …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

An ode to Matisse at Paris’s Grand Palais … Ella Stiller, daughter of Ben, proves the funny doesn’t fall far from the tree … our favorite new whodunits … Martin Parr’s last snaps … warm-weather hosting essentials … and news of the world you’ll actually want to read in our latest AIR MAIL Diary …

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Issue No. 349

The View from Here It’s tempting to think that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was fated to disgrace the royal family. But what if there were a what-if?

By Sidney Blumenthal
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Games

The Weekly Waffle

A positively addictive word game to go with your morning coffee
The Restaurant Underbelly

“I’m Cancelable. But I’m Not a Cat Killer” Horses was the hottest restaurant in L.A., until co-owner Liz Johnson accused her husband and partner, Will Aghajanian, of murdering their pets. Three years later, he breaks his silence

By Kelly Loudenberg
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Sussex Follies

Meghan in Oz! The Duchess of Sussex once wanted to be the Gwyneth Paltrow of jam. Now she’s sixth on the bill at an Australian women’s retreat

By Hilary Rose
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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Small Talk
“Try to make friends—but don’t make friends with kids whose parents want to be my friend.”
“Try to make friends—but don’t make friends with kids whose parents want to be my friend.”
Air Supply

Gather Round

Outside, inside, or anywhere you can get a table, lunch becomes dinner, wine keeps pouring, and chatter meanders without end. This is AIR SUPPLY’s spring-entertaining edit, built to make it look like you’ve always done this—before the season arrives
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Photo: Renn Productions/Cinematic Collection/Alamy (Tilly and Bening in Valmont)
Guest Edit

Aerin Lauder’s Favorite Things Nobody sets a table, arranges flowers, or chooses a scent quite like Aerin Lauder. Here, the pieces she actually lives with: beautiful, precise, and effortlessly specific

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Hotel Wars

The Bonvoy Problem Points programs are destroying the luxury-hotel experience. Can anything stop the freeloaders?

By Mark Ellwood
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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News of the World

The AIR MAIL Diary Buddhist monks are fighting, hibernating bears are biting, and other strange stories from around the globe …

By George Kalogerakis
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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Small Talk
“There goes our security deposit.”
“There goes our security deposit.”
Gen Z Shenanigans

The Making of Hannah Montana On the show’s 20th anniversary, one zillennial goes behind the scenes of the Disney Channel juggernaut that launched a 13-year-old Miley Cyrus and captivated a generation

By Carolina de Armas
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Best
decorate E&S IMPORTS There are two kinds of people: those who set beautiful tables, and those who are about to. Brandon Davis, founder of E&S Imports… listen Live Forever The last time we checked in on Alynda Segarra, two years ago, their band Hurray for the Riff Raff had just released The Past Is Still Alive… watch Girlfriends Before Lena Dunham in Girls and Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha represented the trope of the wayward female creative living… listen Page 94 With its blend of satire, gossip, and serious investigative reporting, the storied British magazine Private Eye is unique. (It was one… visit Jean-Pierre Laffont x Leica Jean-Pierre Laffont’s photographs of New York hold a fascinating duality. From the moment he moved there… dine San Ángel Inn The Google description for Mexico City’s San Ángel Inn is “posh take on tacos,” but the restaurant’s storied history goes beyond that… decorate E&S IMPORTS There are two kinds of people: those who set beautiful tables, and those who are about to. Brandon Davis, founder of E&S Imports… listen Live Forever The last time we checked in on Alynda Segarra, two years ago, their band Hurray for the Riff Raff had just released The Past Is Still Alive… watch Girlfriends Before Lena Dunham in Girls and Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha represented the trope of the wayward female creative living… listen Page 94 With its blend of satire, gossip, and serious investigative reporting, the storied British magazine Private Eye is unique. (It was one… visit Jean-Pierre Laffont x Leica Jean-Pierre Laffont’s photographs of New York hold a fascinating duality. From the moment he moved there… dine San Ángel Inn The Google description for Mexico City’s San Ángel Inn is “posh take on tacos,” but the restaurant’s storied history goes beyond that…
Food

Phil Rosenthal and Nancy Silverton Talk Shop In an interview, the friends behind Everybody Loves Raymond and Osteria Mozza discuss Max & Helen’s, their new L.A. diner where everyone—from Steven Spielberg to Timothée Chalamet—has to wait in line

By David T. Friendly
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Travel

Trout of This World Forget Patagonia—the world’s best fly-fishing may just be hiding in the Spanish Pyrenees, where one legendary outfitter guards a “Destination X”

By David Coggins
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Close-up

Ella Stiller After discovering a knack for comedy at Juilliard, Ben Stiller’s 23-year-old daughter is now starring alongside Lisa Kudrow in the third and final season of The Comeback

By Paulina Prosnitz
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Around the World in Culture
In Theaters
The fashion designer Marc Jacobs is the subject of a new documentary directed by his longtime friend and collaborator Sofia Coppola… In Paris
The Grand Palais presents the first retrospective in France dedicated to Nan Goldin’s provocative, personal videos and slideshows… In Queens
A new exhibition traces the origins of The Sopranos, drawing on series creator David Chase’s personal archive of scripts and notes… In London
Dangerous Liaisons returns in a National Theatre production starring Lesley Manville, Aidan Turner, and Monica Barbaro… In Manhattan
In a new one-man show set in December 1975, Modern Family’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson brings a heartbroken Truman Capote to life… On Apple TV
Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington, and Kate Mara play three friends whose lives are shattered in Imperfect Women…
Books

Murder, They Wrote This month in mysteries: a return of Tana French’s retired cop, Cal Hooper, and a debut thriller about a female detective investigating a strange cold case

By Lisa Henricksson
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Highlight
La Chute d’Icare, by Henri Matisse, 1943.

Matisse’s Last Act

In one of the last self-portraits Rembrandt painted before he died, in 1668, he is laughing heartily. His humor suggests that the only way to face the ultimate is to be as alive as possible. Cézanne’s final version of The Card Players (1894–95) presents us with a moment in which mental concentration and human bodies, thought and matter, merge. In all of art history, however, there is no greater fusion of ethereality and immortality than in the work produced by Henri Matisse during the last 13 years of his life. The spirit of his colors and the forcefulness of his lines are boundless. READ ON

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Open Book

“Serious Photographs Disguised as Entertainment” With the arrival of warmer weather, two new coffee-table books revisit the late Martin Parr’s wry pictures—and the environmental warning simmering beneath them

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Top, Clacton Beach, in Clacton, England, 2017; above, the Surrey Bird Club, in Surrey, England, 1972; both photographed by Martin Parr.
A 1992 photograph by Parr in Chew Stoke, England, and included in his 2022 book, A Year in the Life of Chew Stoke Village.
Top, a fête at Shalfleet Church, on the Isle of Wight, England, 2007; above, New Brighton, England, 1983–85.
A 2007 photograph taken by Parr in Deerness, Scotland, and included in his 2017 book, Remote Scottish Postboxes.
Parr, aged five, photographed by his father, George Parr, in England, 1958.
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Klaus Kremmerz’s Sketchbook
Contemplating the arrival of spring.
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March 21, 2026
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