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Top Models

By the Board Melbourne-based filmmaker and artist Daniel Agdag’s medium of choice is cardboard, and his sculptures are sure to shock and delight

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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

Living

Good Things in Small Packages Our essential guide to unmissable kids’ boutiques, from the Tuileries to Shoreditch to Brooklyn

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Elements of Style

The Pleasure Is All Hers As a designer, author, and curator, Betony Vernon elevates the fine art of seduction

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High Times

Where the Magic Really Happens The Goop-ification of magic mushrooms swept a remarkable origin story under the rug of big business. But the tiny Oaxacan retreat where it all began hasn’t gone anywhere

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Crime and Punishment

The Man in the Lineup: Part IV Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in jail for a rape he didn’t commit. Nearly 40 years later comes a precisely calculated payback

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Bashar al-Assad flees, Juan Soto increases his fees, and the Trump nominees continue to displease

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Inside Story

The Designer Who Set Women Free In contrast to Dior’s waist-cinching “New Look,” Claire McCardell’s “American Look” brought comfort to women’s fashion

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Design for Living

Rule of Three Go from shoddy to well shod with a pair of adult shoes! Spend an evening at the movies (but not in a multiplex)! And more, in our column on how to live …

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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

Small Talk

15 Reasons Pete Buttigieg Should Be President With no clear Democratic front-runner, could the former secretary of transportation be the party’s next presidential nominee? We count the reasons why

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Close-up

Caio Twombly The 26-year-old curator spotlights young artists at his new East Village gallery

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Close-up

Dae Kim At just 29 years old, the Per Se alum is the head chef at Manhattan’s splashiest new fine-dining restaurant

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Highlight

Against the Grain The Museum of Modern Art exhibits New York’s first-ever retrospective on Käthe Kollwitz, one of history’s greatest graphic artists—and one of its most outspoken pacifists

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A Gentleman’s Touch Thanks to his impeccable manners, Arthur Barry ingratiated himself with Jazz Age millionaires—then stole their jewels

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View With a Room

Better Living Through Holiday At Yeotown in Madeira, a wellness retreat that caters to angsty over-achievers

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The Perfect Ending

Ike Barinholtz The Studio actor answers 66 of life’s most pressing questions

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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

High-Society Sound

A Getty on the Dance Floor The oil heiress Ivy Getty lost her father and divorced her husband—but found salvation in breezy, summertime pop

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