Red Handed
Second Cut
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It took me years to finally feel like I was hot. Then I met my wife, and it’s only been downhill since.”
Vroom
Cask in Point
Out now
This is a new kind of financial podcast that focuses on the mentality of people who hoard wealth. It is a tender, yet provocative look at the issue that shies away from slogans (“Eat the rich”) and prioritizes understanding without demonization.
Out now
When the New York Times promises “conversations with the world’s most fascinating people,” you know that they can deliver. Each Saturday, hosts David Marchese and Lulu Garcia-Navarro speak with compelling figures from the worlds of culture, politics, business and sports. And they get stories out them that you’ve never heard before.
Out now
With human and AI relationships on the rise, this podcast tells the stories of people who have fallen in love with AI partners. Hosts Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala take a gentle, empathetic approach to unpack these emotional human tales from what is both big business and a cautionary tale.
Last Call
Vroom
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Italy ranks high among European coffee markets, but it reaches that level through many small servings rather than large ones.”
Making Scents
Layer Up
Out October 20
This is a coming-of-age mystery from Nick Paley, with Sam Nivola among the White Lotus graduates filling out the cast. Paley's a largely untested creator, so this rides on the young ensemble and whether the hook holds past the pilot. Worth a look.
Out now
Mike Flanagan has built a career on King adaptations that take the source seriously—Doctor Sleep, Gerald's Game—and now he's stretching Carrie into a limited series for Prime Video. More room for the small-town cruelty that makes the book land.
Out now
Michelle and Robert King — the pair behind The Good Wife and Evil — turn their satirical aim on Silicon Valley's founder class. Their track record is dialogue that moves fast and institutions rendered as absurd from the inside. Cupertino should be the tech send-up that actually lands.
Home Away
Shoulder Check
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Jaguar’s challenge is to use recognizable elements of its past without allowing heritage to become the entire design language.”
Telling Time
Get Crackin'
Most self-improvement efforts fail quietly, not because the ideas are wrong, but because the foundation is unstable. The real levers to fix your sleep are simpler and less marketable than fancy products. Just light, timing and repeatable habits.
Prep School
East Meets West
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Has flat buttocks.”
Flex Appeal
All Aboard
Out now
Hodinkee and Porsche Design revive the legendary military Chronograph 1 with a lightweight titanium case and a newly developed movement inspired by the Lemania 5100. Limited to just 350 pieces, the all-black watch balances vintage military appeal with modern engineering, resulting in a rugged, purpose-built chronograph that feels remarkably current.
Vroom
Reptile Dysfunction
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You’re trying to capture a feeling. That’s more important than anything, because movies are, first and foremost, an unbelievable delivery system for emotion. Everything else is secondary. ”
Smoke Show
Out now
It’s almost impossible to describe Johnson’s latest book, a 672-page puzzle of a novel that keeps changing form while unpacking urgent social issues like police corruption and violence.
Out October 13
Passengers follows Ivan, a lonely man in his seventies, and his estranged daughter Nina as they attempt to reconnect on a trip to Europe. Stranded at LAX by endless delays and cancellations, they confront years of resentment, misunderstanding and unresolved love. What begins as an intimate father-daughter drama gradually becomes an eerie suspense story about family, survival and reconciliation amid collapse.
Out October 27
This highly-anticipated book takes us inside a mysterious realm on the other side of our screens. A dark force that draws victims into its static. An unlikely hero is called to save them and herself from this electric hell.
Room to Move
Game On
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A compound producing an effect in a laboratory, showing promise in an animal or accumulating glowing online testimonials does not establish what happens after five or 10 years of human use.”
Worth It?
Night Moves
You’ve heard of BEAMS, the legendary Japanese retailer. Well, MR_BEAM is the brand’s biannual menswear style book and magazine-format catalog published by the BEAMS team, highlighting its classic and casual menswear lines. And the Insta account offers plenty of stylish inspiration.
Star Power
Patty Melts
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Each of these 99 barrels was selected for its exceptional character, and after 14 years of aging, they deliver the bold, complex profile that defines King of Kentucky.”
Telling Time
Vroom
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Shaken, Stirred
Land of the Rising Room
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It puts the same 542 hp as the electrified full-size Range Rover into a smaller, more dynamic package.”
Hip Check
Making Scents
Why are we reminding you to find yourself a local cobbler in your area? Easy. They're our best-kept secret to owning Prada, Gucci and Stubbs & Wootton shoes without ever spending retail.
Face Value
Safari So Good
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The Club Sport Neomatik Worldtimer Dark dons a new dial color scheme that may look familiar to most watch enthusiasts.”
Ticker Talk
Vroom
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Aimé Leon Dore's Fall/Winter '26 capsule reworks mid-century workwear staples in chalk and hickory stripe denims. There are trucker and chore jackets, painter pants, bucket and logo hats, all cut from the hardwearing striped fabrics. It’s a straightforward, rugged-leaning drop that mixes the brand's usual vocabulary of Americana downtown polish.
Bend, Don't Break
Mind & Muscle
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Donckerwolke made his name working on dramatic Lamborghinis, yet [his] 914/6 comes from another corner of automotive design entirely.”
Coastal Gems
Check Up
Out now
Serial Productions and the New York Times take on a Yale fertility clinic where dozens of women reported excruciating pain during egg retrievals. The really sad part? They were all repeatedly told it was in their heads. Five episodes of patient, infuriating reporting on how institutions handle inconvenient patients.
Out now
Jon Ronson traces the culture wars back to their origin points—one strange, small incident at a time. Same method as So You've Been Publicly Shamed: find the person at the center of a fight nobody remembers starting, and let them talk.
Out now
Ian Urbina spent years reporting on the high seas for the Times, and this CBC anthology turns that work into audio: Forced labor on fishing fleets, dumping, killings nobody prosecutes. Grim, meticulous and the rare investigative show that earns its running time. True crime fans will be in heaven.
Smoke Show
Making Scents
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You don’t have to run in biohacking circles to have noticed that red light therapy is having a moment. You could just go to the mall.”
Know Your Numbers
Spice Is Right
Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming returns from vacation to find mold growing in a discarded petri dish, leading to the accidental discovery of penicillin and the dawn of modern antibiotics. This single moment of untidiness birthed a new age in medicine and has saved an estimated 200 million lives.
