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New York

A Literary Companion

The Last Days of Joan Didion Cory Leadbeater looked after the author in her final days—and after them, too

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Air Mail Diary

Russia’s Rich Hunt for New Homes Plus, are Swedes rude? And other strange news about these curious days …

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The View from Here The latest victim of crypto hype? Frank Lloyd Wright’s only skyscraper


Books

The Dramatist as Analyst

Ticket to Ride

Cycling’s Fresh Blood Whether you’re an e-bike believer or prefer to pedal it out the old-fashioned way, three start-ups are breathing new life into the Victorian-era invention

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Artistic License

Julian Schnabel’s Cutting Edge Despite commercial success and a body of work that now spans more than five decades, the artist is just as irritable and unimpressed as ever

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Inspector Gadget

Landing Gear An automated terrarium for even the most hopeless of plant-lovers; a streaming device that’s built to move; a power adapter big enough for an army (and 200 countries); and more

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Billionaires in Rut

Billion-Dollar Babies When a plush-toy tycoon with a real-estate fetish bumps up against Bill Gates, hospitality goes out the window

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Hollywood

A Raging Bull’s Fighting Words Robert De Niro has a new baby and a celebrated new film—his 10th with Martin Scorsese—but what the acclaimed actor really wants to discuss is the crazy and absurd phenomenon of Donald Trump

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Artistic License

Sick or Genius? Directors can’t stop making movies about tortured artists

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An Enduring Mystery

The Shooting of Pretty Boy Melvin Was Sean “Diddy” Combs’s father murdered by the Gambino crime family?

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Donald Trump goes all Smokey Bear, George Santos rears his ugly head (again), and the My Pillow founder loses his legal cushion. C’mon, put your faith in AIR MAIL’s electoral college and vote already!


Wheels of Injustice

The Apostate Trump’s dead-eyed hatchet man in the Justice Department, Emil Bove III, has attacked the very office that taught him the law—and betrayed the ideals he once espoused

Air Mail Diary

A Museum with Private(s) Access And other strange news about these curious days …

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The View from Here Is Donald Trump doing a “Reverse-Nixon”? (It’s even worse than it sounds)

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Close-up

Quintessa Swindell The 27-year-old actor stars in Ridley Scott’s new thriller, Prime Target, while simultaneously making their directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival

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Television

Political Clout After a nine-year hiatus, the prescient Danish drama Borgen and its lead character, Birgitte Nyborg, have a lot to say

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The First Slam Dunk How the powerful—and at times illegal—basketball shot made its way from the streetball games of New York City and the plains of West Texas to the N.B.A.

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The Art World

Look Again The vice-chairman of 20th- and 21st-century art at Christie’s New York recommends the 10 must-see paintings in the Met’s newly reopened European-art galleries

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Real-Estate Rarities

The Palace We Call Home Le Palais Stoclet is one of the world’s most spectacular private homes. A new law might force it to open its doors to the public

In Cold Blood

The “Preppy Killer” She Knew A new novel revisits 1980s Manhattan—and the murder that defined an era


Landing Gear

Sweet Science A hard-hitting fitness tracker! A clock for book-lovers! The best tool for cleaning your shoes! And more …

High Times

The Ultimate Map of New York and Its Drugs From Xanax to cocaine to mushrooms, we break down the city’s drug scene by neighborhood

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