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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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Open Book

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

Open Book

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

Air Mail Diary

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

By George Kalogerakis

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

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

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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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Petit H

By Paulina Prosnitz

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Planned Parenthood

By Zoe Ruffner

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

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

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

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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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Bullets over East Hampton A shooting range “for the common man” has been accused of peppering the houses of wealthy residents with stray bullets. Who’ll wave the white flag first?

By Carrie Monahan

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Somebody Somewhere

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Damian Woetzel’s Guide to New York The president of the Juilliard School shares his go-to spots in the city he calls home

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Murder, They Wrote This month in mystery books, we recommend reading former F.B.I. director James Comey’s crime-fiction debut, which draws from a lengthy career in and out of the courtroom

By Lisa Henricksson

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After Hours

Letters from Scamelot In her latest party report, Caroline Calloway flees a poetry reading, crosses paths with an old flame at a Paris Review party, and takes a divorced single dad to the Lower East Side’s buzziest nightclub

By Caroline Calloway

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Chowa

By Nathan King

The Perfect Ending

Michael Chow The restaurateur and subject of a new HBO documentary, AKA Mr. Chow, answers 68 of life’s most pressing questions

Gucci Salon

By Ashley Baker

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