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The Belgian Shoes Boom A new generation of shoemakers—and customers—is bringing fresh meaning to an old status symbol

By Emilie Hawtin

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Online Special

Up Close and Personal Heartbeat Opera posts its acclaimed Salome on YouTube

By Matthew Gurewitsch

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Out, Damned Spot!

By Linda Wells

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The Lowell

By Ashley Baker

The Shock of the New

By Tobias Grey

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Air Mail Environments: New York Our latest creation will immerse you in New York’s glorious sounds, from the hallowed atrium of the Metropolitan Opera to the clank and churn of the Staten Island Ferry

By George Pendle

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The Grift of His Friendship On this week’s podcast, Jane Boon reveals the man she thought she knew … but didn’t

By Michael Hainey and Ashley Baker

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When Ulysses Came to New York How Bennett Cerf, the co-founder of Random House and famed publisher of Eugene O’Neill and Truman Capote, brought James Joyce’s controversial novel to the U.S.

By Gayle Feldman

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Lunch on a Beam

By Jim Kelly

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Tom Wright After opening a shop in the East Village, fashion’s favorite juice purveyor is taking his ginger-lime shots to delis and grocery stores around Manhattan

By Elena Clavarino

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Announcing the 2026 Tom Wolfe Prizes Short List Meet the 12 finalists in fiction and reportage for year two of AIR MAIL’s literary awards …

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A Passage to India

The Mahabharata of Literary Festivals Forget glitchy microphones and cheap white wine. The Jaipur Literature Festival is the biggest and best of its kind in the world

By Pico Iyer

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Annie Meyers-Shyer The daughter of the powerhouse duo behind The Parent Trap has fostered a cult following of her own with her home-décor Instagram account, This Oak House

By Nadine Zylberberg

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Acting Up From Keith Haring posters to anti–Reagan advertisements, an exhibition collects the works of graphic design that shaped New York’s grassroots response to the AIDS epidemic

By Joel Lobenthal

Isaac Mizrahi The designer, entertainer, author, and producer answers 32 of life’s most pressing questions

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Too Hot to Handle? Albert Trummer made Apotheke the buzziest watering hole in New York—until it all went up in flames. Now he’s trying to re-create the magic

By Jay Cheshes

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Strictly Personal As the dating world succumbs to the algorithm, a new generation of romantics is returning to the high-effort, low-tech holy grail of 1977: the personal ad

By Zara Meerza

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Virginia’s

By Andie Blaine

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Lunch with Sienna Miller On this week’s Table for Two, the actress tells Bruce about living in the Chelsea Hotel, the time Bruce Weber shot her for a Pirelli Calendar, creeping on social media, and much more …

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Douglas Kirkland’s Dazzling Vision The Canadian portrait photographer had a knack for making everyone feel like a star

By Jonathan Becker

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Amateur Hour An unexpected side effect of house music’s stratospheric rise? Everyone and their mother thinks that they, too, can be a D.J.

By Elena Clavarino

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Food and Wine

The Social Stir There’s never been a bigger appetite for celebratory food and festive drinks. Colu Henry’s new cookbook reveals the winning formula

By Laura Neilson

An Immaculate Confection

The Sant Ambroeus Diaries Ninety years since opening as a small Milanese café, the Italian institution has changed hands, grown to 30 locations, and watched its hometown rise from former Austrian rump state to international cultural capital

By Mario Calvo-Platero

Design for Living

Rule of Three Get the clean shave of your dreams, at home! Tie one on—a necktie, that is! And much more, in our new column on how to live …

By George Hahn

Get in Line! Food-lovers have spent seven years waiting for Los Angeles hot spot Gjelina to open in New York. It was worth the wait

By Christine Muhlke

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