New York
Adventures in Publishing
The Weidenfeld Way A new biography tells the story of the famed publisher George Weidenfeld, of London’s Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an uproarious character who stood at the meeting point of the literary and society worlds
View With a Room
So Much More than Lobster At Aragosta, on Deer Isle, Maine, a heavenly restaurant, cottages with seaside views, and hikes in lush greenery offer a slice of Arcadia
Theater
Time in a Bottle Brian d’Arcy James channels Jack Lemmon in the new musical Days of Wine and Roses
Photography
Joel Meyerowitz’s Life in Photography One of the pioneers of color photography looks back on his six-decade career in a new book
Highlight
Strangers in the Night Spin Cycle, a one-act play about two people crossing paths at a laundromat, premieres in New York
Bell, Book, and Candle
To Catch a Manuscript Thief The shocking leak of Pope Francis’s closely guarded autobiography bears uncanny similarities to an infamous publishing swindler’s modus operandi
After Hours
A Night Celebrating Michael Chow After Thursday night’s premiere of AKA Mr. Chow, a documentary directed by Nick Hooker and executive-produced by AIR MAIL Co-Editor Graydon Carter, guests including Victor Garber and Griffin Dunne gathered to celebrate the inimitable restaurateur at—where else?—Mr. Chow
Body Language
Golden Girl The spray tan has shed its streaky reputation, and now everyone from Ryan Gosling to Jennifer Lawrence is going under the gun
Plastic Problems
Cat’s Out of the Bag In the late 90s, Jocelyn Wildenstein became a tabloid sensation after her $2.5 billion divorce and as “the poster child for plastic surgery gone wrong.” Now she’s broke and the subject of a new HBO documentary series
