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Take Me to Dimes Square A young playwright reveals how the pandemic led him to find himself—and his latest play—in the Chinatown stomping ground of New York’s downtown set

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Write Book, Bake Cake, Buy Flowers Acclaimed first as a novel, then as a movie, The Hours finds a niche at the Metropolitan Opera

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Elsinore Informal A look back at Richard Burton’s Hamlet, which broke Broadway records


Knives Out!

The Revenge Face The latest divorce trend involves a visit to the plastic surgeon

The Perfect Ending

François Halard The photographer answers 33 of life’s most pressing questions

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Christopher Cawley Meet the antiques dealer sharing Chinatown’s hottest address with James Veloria and Eckhaus Latta

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index In a battle for the ages, Meghan Markle, George Santos, and Choupette go head-to-head for your attention. Plus: strange news from around the world

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Photography

All Roads Lead to Paolo Di Paolo Ahead of a new movie by Bruce Weber on the forgotten photographer and chronicler of postwar Italy, we collect some of his most memorable pictures

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The Biopic Woman

Good Material, Bad Girl A much-troubled film about Madonna is finally in the works—but can it survive its subject’s notorious perfectionism and boorish manners?

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Cuticles in the Red

Introducing the “Russian Manicure” It’s the drilling-intensive new nail trend that TikTokers love … and dermatologists dread!

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It Girl Diaries

The Fantastic Ms. Fox Julia Fox’s life has been filled with sex, drugs, and Kanye West. Unbowed and unashamed, she’s now taking on motherhood with the same riotous spirit

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Air Mail Diary

Will Tom Cruise Go Too Far This Time? And other strange news about these curious days …

Crimes and Misdemeanors

The Case of the Light-Fingered Litterateur When a framed photograph went missing during a Paris Review party, the avant-garde revelers became suspects in an old-fashioned potboiler


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Paul Henkel Raised in the art world, the young curator is spotlighting new talent at his Manhattan art gallery

Oral History

30 Years of Friends From Matthew Perry’s addiction issues to David Schwimmer’s leather pants, the creators and actors of the hit sitcom tell the story of how it came to be, three decades after its first episode

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Open Book

Garry Winogrand in Color A new book collects rarely seen color work by the master of postwar American street photography, from the bustling byways of Manhattan to the shaded underside of Coney Island’s boardwalk

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The Restaurant World

The Simpler Life For decades, chef Iñaki Aizpitarte’s Le Chateaubriand has been one of the most influential restaurants in Paris. So why did he flee to the countryside?

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Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson The duo behind Los Angeles’s Kismet restaurants are publishing their first cookbook

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Modern Times

Failure to Lunch Even though the power-lunch era is over, the rules around the ritual are worth remembering

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Spaghetti Western

There’s No Place Like Rome The Manhattan opening of Roscioli, a revered fourth-generation Roman bakery and salumeria, asks: Can an iconic Italian restaurant ever really be replicated in the U.S.?

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Design for Living

Doctor Knows Nest Is your home supporting your health?

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Lucky Jewel Olive Woodward, Lola Dement Myers, and Shay Gallagher, the trio behind the art collective Lucky Jewel, have opened a store on the Lower East Side


The Perfect Ending

Jeffrey Wright The actor, who is appearing in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, answers 31 of life’s most pressing questions

Hollywood Lives

The Exploding Archival Inevitable Paul Morrissey—overseer of Andy Warhol’s Factory, manager of the Velvet Underground, and cult director—saved everything. AIR MAIL takes an exclusive look

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