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Once upon a Time in Hollywood De Niro! Prince! Madonna! From Oscar parties to parking lots, Dafydd Jones’s L.A. photos capture a bygone era

By Elena Clavarino

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The Best Coffee-Table Books of 2025 Dazzling volumes on the Beatles, Blondie, the French New Wave, panoramic tennis courts, and palazzos, plus photography collections by Weegee and Larry Fink—and a cookbook or two

By Jeanne Malle

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Reality Check A lunch with Andy Cohen leads to revelations about James Corden, the late-night-television orthodoxy, and much more in our new podcast, Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi

The Dark Side of Alain Delon He played charming but icy characters on-screen. The available evidence suggests that he was one in real life

By Legs McNeil

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Acting Up From Keith Haring posters to anti–Reagan advertisements, an exhibition collects the works of graphic design that shaped New York’s grassroots response to the AIDS epidemic

By Joel Lobenthal

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Ostermoor

By Ashley Baker

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Landing Gear An electrified spoon to supercharge, not fry, your taste buds; an e-reader update worth writing home about; a window of opportunity for the videoconferencing elite; and more

By Jonathan Margolis

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Now That’s Wild At Kasiiya Papagayo, in Costa Rica, nature and nurturing collide in unexpected ways

By Catherine Fairweather

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Flying High Is it possible to triumph over jet lag? AIR MAIL’s travel guru shares the products and practices that can (almost) make a red-eye feel like a trip to the spa

By Ashley Baker

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Packed House After a decade of delays, the brand-new Perelman Performing Arts Center will finally host actors, dancers, and artists in Manhattan’s financial district

By Lewis Jacobsen

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The Attention-Whore Index Melania Trump breaks her silence, Boris Johnson justifies his past, and Prince Harry disappoints his backers

By George Kalogerakis

The Perfect Ending

Debra Messing The Will & Grace actress answers 33 of life’s most pressing questions

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Heads Above the Rest In the market for thick, lush locks? A minoxidil prescription is no longer the only game in town

By Tatiana Boncompagni Hoover

Yoko Before John To understand the most misunderstood woman of the last half-century, you have to go back to the beginning

By Legs McNeil

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Me&Em

By Ashley Baker

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Jean-Georges’s New Temple to Food With 12 restaurants, four bars, and three gourmet groceries, New York’s Tin Building is a world unto itself. (And maybe the chef is, too.)

By Jeff Gordinier

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Digital Party

By Elena Clavarino

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Glass Century

By Jack Sullivan

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A Night Celebrating Ashe Leandro Seth Meyers, Amy Schumer, and others gathered at the AIR MAIL Newsstand last Thursday to toast the publication of the design duo’s new book, Ashe Leandro: Architecture + Interiors

By Carolina de Armas

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Man Ray’s Halo Effect A new book surveys the life and work of the prolific 20th-century artist who revolutionized photography and pioneered the Surrealist movement

By Elena Clavarino

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By Michael Hainey

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Holy Smoke Everyone knows the hazards of smoking, and still some members of the Erewhon set are taking up the habit

By Danielle Pergament

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Meltdown in Millbrook After leaving Eleven Madison Park, restaurateur Will Guidara set out to open a five-star hotel in New York’s Hudson Valley. The town has other plans …

By Jay Cheshes

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By Nathan King

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