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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

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Great Lives

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

The Art World

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

By Patrick Monahan

French Exit

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

By Sam Wasson

Dressing on the Side A history of the department-store lunch, from its Gilded Age beginnings to the fashionable dining rooms keeping the ritual alive today

By Ruth Peltason

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Portrait of a Country A new coffee-table book collects more than 100 rare and previously unpublished photographs by Lee Friedlander, America’s pre-eminent chronicler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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Delaney Buffett The daughter of the “Margaritaville” singer honors her late father with her new film, Adult Best Friends

By Paulina Prosnitz

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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

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High Times

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

By Carrie Monahan

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

By Megan Agnew

The Imperfect Ending

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

S&P

By Louise Grunwald

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Getting Into Bed with Hannah Neeleman The rancher, mother of nine, and social-media figure behind Ballerina Farm shares her nighttime routine

By Jeanne Malle

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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

By Elena Clavarino

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Out of Africa

By Celia McGee

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Breast Strokes Smaller implants have given rise to a new surgical procedure, and even some exotic dancers are fans

By Elizabeth Siegel

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Dodging Bullets Trump has a long history of surviving sex scandals, bankruptcies, criminal investigations, impeachments, lawsuits—and now this

By Peter Osnos

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Finding Shangri-La Nestled beneath the Topa Topa Mountains, Ojai’s oldest hotel reopens with two new restaurants—and two giant resident turtles, Abra and Cadabra

By Bronwen Carter

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It’s A Date!

It Ain’t Over Till It’s Oberg Emily Oberg, the founder of Sporty&Rich, inaugurates our new series and talks shop—her new L.A. flagship, to be exact

By Alessandra Codinha

New & Noteworthy

Hot Stuff Things I love now

By Linda Wells

Close-up

Clarence Maclin In his breakout role, the formerly incarcerated actor stars alongside Colman Domingo and Paul Raci in the semi-biographical film Sing Sing

By Jack Sullivan

Changing Places Linda Fairstein put Yusef Salaam in prison for the attack on the Central Park jogger. He was exonerated and is running for office; she is excoriated and living as a pariah

By Jeffrey Toobin

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