A Touch of Smut
Wayne Koestenbaum has been writing seriously salacious poetry for decades. A new collection about New York and its denizens gets down and dirty
Tony Danza
The boxer, actor, and now cabaret star answers 72 of life’s most pressing questions
Staff Picks
Don’t miss a reflection on the state of journalism, a memoir from a former Metropolitan Museum of Art security guard, and the story of a molecular biologist’s fight against sexism
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Where Poetry Comes to Die
Annie Clark, the alternative singer and three-time Grammy winner known as St. Vincent, performs her first self-produced album, All Born Screaming, on her international tour
The View from Here
An eight-hour trek through the Mexican wilderness in a drug dealer’s back seat, $1,000 beach-buggy rides … the lengths to which the young 1 percent will go for a party know no bounds
Bait and Switch
Impersonating a Mexican mogul was just the tip of the iceberg for Alberto Fis, a young art-and-sushi aficionado whose Manhattan omakase restaurant disguised a vast web of Inigo Philbrick–style fraud
A Hard Game to Love
Tennis reporter Ben Rothenberg wasn’t afraid to uncover the game’s scandals, but when he claimed a top player was a domestic abuser, he was cut loose by his publishers—and slapped with a lawsuit
A Night Celebrating Adam Nagourney
On Tuesday, Gay Talese, Maureen Dowd, Maggie Haberman, and other journalistic swells gathered at a book party hosted by AIR MAIL Co-Editors Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley in celebration of the writer’s new book, a history of The New York Times
Nicholson Baker
The award-winning author, who’s written about everything from actual secret government programs to imagined inter-dimensional sex fantasias, reveals a few of his least favorite things
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Shyan Zakeri
The Los Angeles native is bringing his favorite childhood burgers—greasy, thin patties—to New York City with his pop-up concept, Shy’s Burgers
Clarence Maclin
In his breakout role, the formerly incarcerated actor stars alongside Colman Domingo and Paul Raci in the semi-biographical film Sing Sing
