New York

After Hours

La Dolce Vita! AIR MAIL and Bloomingdale’s kick off Fashion Week in high Italian style

By Elena Clavarino

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Modern Times

The Great (Culture) War In 2023, while some cities celebrated femininity with Taylor Swift and Barbie, others pivoted toward angry country music. Do universal pop-culture trends even exist anymore?

By Lynn Q. Yu

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Prounis x Desert Vintage

By Victoria Herman

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Animal Instinct A new film by the Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski offers a prescient look at mankind today, through the eyes of a sympathetic, non-human protagonist

By Graham Fuller

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Finch

By Anjali Lewis

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Eleven Madison Park

By Ashley Baker

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Yellow and Blue

New York or Bust Ukrainian designer Svitlana Bevza scrambled to finish her new collection. As she prepares to show it at Fashion Week, the stakes are higher than ever

By Laura Neilson

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Travel

Rest Easy Until recently, New Orleans’s hotel scene was no match for its nightlife. Several stylish new hotels have changed that

By Steve Garbarino

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The Asphalt Jungle

Mean Green Streets Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Patti Smith have joined forces to save a much-loved garden in downtown New York

By Bevan Hurley

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Early Thirties

By Paulina Prosnitz

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The Golden Years An homage to the expansive and hilarious world The Golden Girls offered during the buttoned-up Reagan era

By Bernadette Giacomazzo

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Portfolio

Poster Boy The illustrator Paul Davis’s subtly Surrealist posters for theaters, movies, and museums get their own show in Italy

By Elena Clavarino

The Seasoned Traveler

Enrique Olvera The Mexican chef behind Cosme and Pujol reveals his travel routine

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No Agency Annual: 2022–2023

By Clara Molot

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Nathan Dalah The co-founder of a beloved fast-casual chain in Australia talks setting up shop in Manhattan with ThisBowl

By Jeanne Malle

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Skyline Scandals

Tax Shelters in the Sky For years, luxury Manhattan high-rises have been used to launder dirty foreign money. But with a new rule designed to curb the practice just weeks away, will oligarchs and dictators have to start looking elsewhere?

By Jennifer Gould

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The Look From Here

The Birkin Bag of Workouts Since when did a single Pilates class cost $500? The slow-and-steady workout is now the height of luxury—and the depths of madness

By Linda Wells

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Carolina Herrera x Frame

By Ashley Baker

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Is Savannah, Georgia, the Next Chernobyl? On this week’s podcast, John von Sothen reveals the bizarre story of Savannah and a missing nuclear bomb

By Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey

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After Hours

A Night Celebrating Sloane Crosley Salman Rushdie, Griffin Dunne, Naomi Fry, Gary Shteyngart, and others gathered at the Waverly Inn in celebration of the writer’s new memoir

By Jack Sullivan

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Books

Cass Elliot Dreamin’

By Joanne Kaufman

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The Restaurant World

L.A. Plays New York In the past few years, New York City’s buzziest restaurants have been exported to Miami. Now they’re landing in Los Angeles

By Susan Campos

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Darling, Death Becomes You! On this week’s podcast, a look at how funerals have become a scene for the new social climbing

By Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey

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Open Book

Twentieth-Century Woman A new book collects 100 images taken by Lee Miller, the intrepid photographer, war correspondent, and Surrealist muse, played by Kate Winslet in an upcoming film

By Celia McGee

The Perfect Ending

Edmund White The trailblazing writer of gay literature answers 71 of life’s most pressing questions

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