Air Mail

A Starbucks for the Next-Gen Set The fast-growing, tech-bro-funded Blank Street aims to be a younger, cooler version of staid coffee chains. It may have misjudged its customers

By Jensen Davis

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City Guides

Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Guide to Chiang Mai The artist shares his go-to spots in the Thai city

Books

Murder, They Wrote This month’s best mystery books range from murder in Edith Wharton’s New York to the notorious 2003 Alperton Angels cult case

By Lisa Henricksson

Small Talk

Hallucinating Graydon Carter Following the publication of When the Going Was Good, A.I.-generated rip-offs have flooded the market—how do they stack up?

By George Kalogerakis

The View from Here Disenchanted with the finance and consulting tracks that once defined success, some elite college grads are trading desk jobs for grueling blue-collar work

By Jeanne Malle

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The Towering Bobby Short For 36 years there was no more quintessential New York experience than seeing Bobby Short perform at the Café Carlyle

By Scott Asen

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Brompton

By Nathan King

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Rita Wilson The singer-songwriter, actress, and producer answers 35 of life’s most pressing questions

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Game Changers As America’s major sports leagues became moneymaking monopolies, a trio of trailblazing organizations—rife with scandal and star power—tried to cut in on the action

By Bill Keenan

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Rebel with a Cause How Philip Weiss went from being “the Dennis Rodman of journalism” to full-time anti-Zionist agitator

By David Freedlander

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Treasure Chest Looking better naked is going public, with men finding their own interpretation of “free the nipple”

By Brennan Kilbane

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City Guides

Jeffrey Deitch’s Guide to Los Angeles The art dealer shares his favorite up-and-coming galleries in his adopted city

But First …

The View from Here Disenchanted with the finance and consulting tracks that once defined success, some elite college grads are trading desk jobs for grueling blue-collar work

By Jeanne Malle

City Guides

Refik Anadol’s Guide to Istanbul The Turkish-American new media artist shares his favorite spots in his home city

Yanks-on-the-Wold The Cotswolds are alive with the sound of Americans

By Joseph Bullmore

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Putin’s Gold Rush Russian archaeologists are looting Ukrainian museums of gold, artifacts, and weapons that the Kremlin says prove that Russia is an ancient civilization many thousands of years old. (It’s not)

By Andrew Ryvkin

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Sean Scully’s Guide to London The Irish-American artist shares his favorite spots in Hampstead, the neighborhood he calls home

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The Art-World Underbelly

By Tobias Grey

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Basque in It The husband-and-wife team of Eder Montero and Alex Raij has created some of New York’s best neighborhood restaurants

By Christine Muhlke

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When It Comes to Book Parties, More Is, Apparently, More If Mark Ronson, Keith McNally, a Real Housewife, and an artist’s wife are anything to go by, it’s not enough to have just one book party anymore

By Andrew Zucker

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Joey Scalabrino The New York restaurateur’s Apollo Bagels is so popular it risks being evicted from the West Village

By Jeanne Malle

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Close-up

Jack Siebert The Los Angeles–based curator using social media to find the art world’s rising stars

By Elena Clavarino

The Seasoned Traveler

Sloane Crosley The essayist, novelist, and memoirist reveals her travel routine

Down the Rabbit Hole

The DoorDash Delivery Scandal That Rocked the Internet TikTok, Reddit, and X are abuzz over the alleged sexual assault of a female delivery driver

By Stuart Heritage

He’ll Take Manhattan Rogério Fasano, the Brazilian restaurant impresario, has finally landed in Midtown. Best to get on his good side …

By Jay Cheshes

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