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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

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I Post, Therefore I Am From Substack “think pieces” to A.I.-optimized captions, Camille Charrière examines our new obsession with looking brainy while our brains go offline in her debut column for AIR MAIL


Once upon a Time in Gala-Land How a midnight dinner for fashion insiders became a multi-million-dollar media spectacle, culminating with this year’s sponsorship by none other than the Bezoses

Don’t Stop ‘til You Get Enough From Michael Jackson and Prince to Elvis and Nipsey Hussle, the death of a pop star can be the beginning of a booming second act

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The Story of Jim and Jan In her new biography, Sara Wheeler exposes the intrinsic contradictions of the transgender travel writer

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Shred It! A new book traces the rise of British skateboarding in the 1980s, when the sport found its own grungy identity far from its Californian roots

Where Bob Dylan Met the Beatles From the Savoy in London to an airport hotel in Queens, the little-known story of the rooms where the musical giants forged a surprisingly close bond


Russia’s Greatest Love Machine Antony Beevor’s new biography of Grigori Rasputin argues that the controversial Russian adviser triggered the fall of Russia’s autocracy

All About Peter Six months after the release of Ira Sachs’s film Peter Hujar’s Day, three exhibitions in New York give long-overdue attention to the American photographer

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Off You Go Graduation is a transition disguised as a celebration. The usual gifts mark the achievement; this edit is about what comes after—objects, tools, and small signals of a life that’s no longer instructed

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The Devil Sells Prada Vogue editor and socialite Lauren Santo Domingo had dreams of disrupting Net-a-Porter. But in fashion there’s fantasy, and then there’s cold reality

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