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Getting into Bed with Bridget Everett The actress and cabaret performer shares her nighttime routine

By Jeanne Malle

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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

By Brian Dillon

The Perfect Ending

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

Timothée Chalamet Is Missing the Pointe In an interview, the Oscar-nominated—and LaGuardia-educated!—actor dismissed ballet and opera as art forms “no one cares about.” How could he forget where he came from?

By Sarah Hoover

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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

By David Yaffe

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The Shock of the Old An exhibition of 28 nearly 400-year-old paintings was the global cultural event of 2023. Why?

By Benjamin Moser

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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

By Elena Clavarino

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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

By Elena Clavarino

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The Hidden Highsmith A new documentary about the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley delves into the writer’s love life

By Graham Fuller

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The Dark Side of Tennis

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

By Laura Wagner

Open Book

Dive In! From Spain to India to Mexico, a new coffee-table book showcases the world’s most stunning swimming pools

By Elena Clavarino

Battle for the Ages

Boomers vs. Gen Z–ers Did the baby-boomers have more style? Are Gen Z–ers less reprehensible? Find out in our battle of the generations!

By Elena Clavarino and George Pendle

Marianne Mantell With $1,500 in savings, she started a recording company that paved the way for the billion-dollar audiobook business

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The Return of Flaming June Once derided as an eyesore, Victorian painting is roaring back on both sides of the Atlantic

By Patrick Monahan

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“All the Romance of Filmmaking Is Gone” Woody Allen on Paris, cancel culture, retirement, and “the whole mortality question”

By Sam Wasson

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Portrait of a Country A new coffee-table book collects more than 100 rare and previously unpublished photographs by Lee Friedlander, America’s pre-eminent chronicler

By Maggie Turner

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Bloom Town Before lockdown, Kyoto was overrun with tourists. Now that it’s been reclaimed by the locals, the fun really begins

By Christine Muhlke

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Sid Mashburn

By Michael Hainey

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The Misfits Tony Notarberardino has been a resident of the Chelsea Hotel—and its unofficial photo-portraitist—since 1994

By Legs McNeil

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Close-up

Delaney Buffett The daughter of the “Margaritaville” singer honors her late father with her new film, Adult Best Friends

By Paulina Prosnitz

After Hours

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

By Nathan King

High Times

Unabashedly Arab The war in Gaza has not stopped New York’s Habibi from dishing out Levantine good vibes

By Carrie Monahan

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

By Megan Agnew

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