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The View from Here Louis C.K. wins a Grammy? New York magazine takes on B.L.M.? Has the backlash to wokeism begun?

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The Perfect Ending

Elisabeth Moss The Handmaid’s Tale actress answers 29 of life’s most pressing questions


D.J. Chronicles

Notes from Underground Keinemusik’s catchy brand of house music has attracted everyone from bankers to groupies. But is the German D.J. trio anything more than a status symbol?

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Carly Mark How the designer quickly took over the fashion world with her irreverent brand, Puppets and Puppets

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After Hours

A Night to Remember with Salman Rushdie Gay Talese, Lisa Taddeo, Marlon James, Tony Danza, and others gathered at the Waverly Inn for a rousing book party in celebration of the writer’s new memoir

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New Media

Substack’s Secret Weapon The former downtown darling giving the San Francisco V.C.-backed company its edge

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City Guides

Sean Scully’s Guide to London The Irish-American artist shares his favorite spots in Hampstead, the neighborhood he calls home

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Film

A Lighter Shade of Darren Aronofsky His movies—Black Swan, The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream—are notoriously heavy. But the director’s latest, Caught Stealing, is a romp around the East Village of the 1990s

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Sculpture Wars

A Tale of Two Beans Two years after its unveiling, at the base of a Manhattan luxury tower, Anish Kapoor’s smaller “bean” is way more controversial than its Chicago predecessor

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Wall Street Woes

Two Turntables and the Goldman Sachs Revolt While their C.E.O. is D.J.-ing at Lollapalooza, Gen Z bankers are rebelling against a return-to-office order

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Lunch with Graydon Carter On this week’s episode of Table for Two, AIR MAIL’s Co-Editor embraces being compared to Buddy from Elf, explains how creativity could help you get into the Vanity Fair Oscar party, and more

Suite Smell of Success

The Secret Life of Hotels Before doing the Madeline children’s books and the murals for New York’s Carlyle-hotel bar, Ludwig Bemelmans worked at the Ritz—and kept notes


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Inside Story

Positively 4th Street When New York was still called New Amsterdam, a former slave ran a farm on the very terrain that would become the Greenwich Village stomping ground of folk singers and Beat poets

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Comedic Relief

Hollywood’s Conundrum What will happen to the new World War II films as war rages in the Middle East?

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Elon Musk is failing, Donald Trump is flailing, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is whaling

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Hollywood Lives

Kathryn Bigelow Goes Nuclear The Oscar-winning director is back in her happy place with the nail-biting, anxiety-inducing, apocalyptic political thriller A House of Dynamite

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Party Hopping

Sunglasses After Dark A guided tour of CBGB, the Mudd Club, Tunnel, and downtown’s other lost nightlife haunts

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Stranding Out!

Bounce with Me How do some New York women achieve such incredibly lush, shiny, healthy-looking hair? One new arrival steals their secrets

Style

When Savile Row Met Carnaby Street Tommy Nutter clothed the Beatles and just about every other member of “Swinging London”


Culture

The 96-Year Itch At 96, Marilyn Stafford, the masterful yet little-known photographer who shot everyone from Albert Einstein to Sharon Tate and everything from political unrest to war, gets her due

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The Queen’s Gambit Meyerbeer’s Ozymandian masterpiece Les Huguenots

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