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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


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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

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.

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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

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Books

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

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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

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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

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The Perfect Ending

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

Stars and Bars

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


Modern Love

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

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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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Photography

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

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Modern Times

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.

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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

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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 …

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Food

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

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Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss a look at a 1960s artistic epicenter, the saga of two men rowing across the Atlantic, and a fresh take on the 1968 presidential election

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Who Is Gwyneth Paltrow’s Plastic Surgeon? On this week’s podcast, Linda Wells reveals all


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Gen Z’s Hot New Drug This week on the podcast, a closer look at kratom. Plus, would you pay $700 to eat some ants?