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The Attention-Whore Index Donald Trump triumphs, Elon Musk gloats, and Tucker Carlson gets mauled by a demon (at last!)

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Landing Gear

A Workspace Odyssey The videoconferencing booth that will transport you to another dimension! An app to help you remain calm! Bring movie night on vacation! And more …

Books

Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss a collection spotlighting Vietnamese voices, the story of a troubled American dynasty, and a Pulitzer Prize–winning funny guy’s new memoir


Publish or Perish

A Publisher of One’s Own For 25 years, Persephone Books has been turning the works of forgotten female writers into unexpected best-sellers

Millennial Matters

The Girl with the Gimlet Eye New York writer Natasha Stagg translated her exacting cultural critiques into work for big brands. Her latest book grapples with questions about social media, identity, and authenticity in our increasingly online world

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Online Special

The Yellow and the Blue Led by their American music director Hobart Earle, the Odessa Philharmonic flies Ukraine’s colors in Berlin

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Photography

(Mid-)20th-Century Women Ruth Orkin’s postwar photographs, collected in a new book, offer a snapshot of the modern woman navigating life in the big city

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Close-up

Ave Maria! She got Rudy Giuliani to fiddle with his crotch in the Borat sequel. Now Maria Bakalova steals the show as Ivana Trump in the new movie The Apprentice

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Landing Gear

Blow Them to Pieces The Leica of leaf removal! An operating-system update that will help you save face! A dongle that will up your headphone game! And more …

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The Closer Look

Brooke Shields’s Good Life The actor, model, author, and entrepreneur relies on weight-lifting, a tough massage, tequila, and not beating herself up

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Hollywood Gadfly

The Last Angry Man Rex Reed is one of a dying breed—the pugnacious, no-holds-barred movie critic beholden to neither publicist nor star

Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss a comic-strip biography of Charles M. Schulz, a look back at Germany’s turbulent 1923, and the story of how Borges, Heisenberg, and Kant challenged reality


Bust a Move

Peak Insanity Can you even call yourself a biohacker if you aren’t paying $10,000 a month for a gym membership?

Open House

They’ll Take the Lot! Interior design meets soap opera in the latest high-end real-estate trend, where the wealthy approach homeowners with no desire to sell and buy their houses turnkey—down to the tchotchkes

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Cuticles in the Red

Introducing the “Russian Manicure” It’s the drilling-intensive new nail trend that TikTokers love … and dermatologists dread!

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Film

Keeping Up with the Hösses Based on a Martin Amis novel, The Zone of Interest is told from the perspective of an Auschwitz commandant and his family

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But First …

The View from Here Want a foolproof way to oust Putin and end the war? Take the plot from a famous mystery writer

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School for Scandal

Skeletons in the Closet The culture wars have come for Skull and Bones, Yale’s most prestigious—and mysterious—secret society

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The Perfect Ending

Daphné Guinness The musician and composer answers 49 of life’s most pressing questions

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But First …

The View from Here Truth emerges in the rotting boneyard of the Fox-Dominion libel case. But the Big Lie and the Big Grift continue in Washington and beyond

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Excerpt

The Mean Girls Next Door How Tina Fey turned a self-help manual for anxious mothers into the quintessential teen movie of the early aughts

View With a Room

Dubai’s Softer Side In a city known for excess, what does “luxury” even mean? The Lana, the Dorchester Collection’s stylish new hotel, has a few suggestions


Kiss and Makeup

Glossier Unglossed What gave Glossier its cool? One former employee reveals the stardust surrounding its founder on the eve of the Glossy bomb(dot-com)shell

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The View from Here Introducing AIR MAIL’s first special issue, devoted entirely to the theme of downtown New York, past and present

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