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CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED

The Devil’s in the Data Walter Murch reveals how Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation clicked together—and anticipated surveillance capitalism

By Michael Sragow

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The Good Kind of Political Drama: The West Wing at 25 On this week’s podcast, Janel Moloney, who played idealistic assistant Donna Moss, takes us inside the landmark show

By Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey

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Master of None Amid his battle to take back the White House, Donald Trump is in danger of becoming towerless and losing the Manhattan building that made him a star

By Hugh Tomlinson

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Thelma Golden’s Guide to New York As the Studio Museum in Harlem re-opens its doors, its director and chief curator shares her go-to spots in the neighborhood

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If You Build It …

By Celia McGee

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Iké Udé’s Guide to Lagos From beach clubs to hidden art hubs, the Nigerian-American photographer and performer shares his go-to’s in his native city

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The View from Here A 10th-grader on reading and writing to cope with gun violence

By Khaleel Wright

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AIR MAIL’s Best Coffee-Table Books of 2024 Dazzling volumes on Rosario Candela’s New York City penthouses and David Hockney’s works on paper, plus photography collections from Ernest Cole, Eve Arnold, and Ruth Orkin and a look inside an Italian home or two

By Jeanne Malle

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AIR MAIL’s Best Coffee-Table Books of 2024 Dazzling volumes on Rosario Candela’s New York City penthouses and David Hockney’s works on paper, plus photography collections from Ernest Cole, Eve Arnold, and Ruth Orkin and a look inside an Italian home or two

By Jeanne Malle

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Air Mail Diary

Will Prince Andrew Lose His Right to Roam Freely? And other strange news about these curious days …

By George Kalogerakis

Books

Stable Work What my dead-end internship at a mediocre Saratoga Springs restaurant taught me about horse racing—and the food-service industry

By Brigid Washington

The Seasoned Traveler

Kenny Schachter The artist, art dealer, curator, and writer reveals his travel routine

Flat Earth

By Andie Blaine

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Waiting for Jolie With her new downtown boutique, Angelina Jolie may have created the most sustainable clothing store ever—by making it virtually impossible to shop there

By Dana Brown

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No Fun in the Sun Inside the allegations of skin rashes and chlamydia outbreaks rocking tony St. Barth’s

By Linda Wells

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Maeve Brennan’s New York The collected stories of a mid-20th-century Irish writer in Manhattan recall a bygone era of Truman Capote and 50-cent martinis

By Harry Mount

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By Paulina Prosnitz

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Planned Parenthood

By Zoe Ruffner

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Highlight

Fifty Shades of White A Robert Ryman retrospective goes up at David Zwirner’s Hong Kong outpost, marking the monochrome painter’s first solo exhibition in Greater China

By Spike Carter

High Times

The Slowdown A growing number of parents with autistic children are turning to an unconventional—and, in some places, unlawful—remedy

By David Christopher Kaufman

The Perfect Ending

Christopher John Rogers The fashion designer answers 31 of life’s most pressing questions

The View from Here A lot has been written about Trump’s second term. Kathy Hochul summed it up with a single barnyard epithet

By Jamie Malanowski

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