Jean Genius
Hit the Trail
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Whether it’s a sweater or an entire town that you’re passing on to future generations, it’s really people that you’re investing in.”
On The Grind
Full Send
Streaming on Prime Video
Before Elle Woods was a fish-out-of-water at Harvard, we meet her in 1995, when her family moves to rainy Seattle, where even the popular kids wear drab flannel. The show’s nods to the grunge era add an additional layer of nostalgia to the story.
Streaming on Hulu
As its strangely worded title suggests, this is a feature-length extension of the cult favorite web and TV series created by the Toronto actors and filmmakers Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol. The duo plays best friends who keep coming up with crazy schemes to promote a band that can never seem to book a gig.
Streaming on HBO Max
Soffia Coppola’s cinematic portrait of Marc Jacobs, mostly shot during the preparations for the designer’s fashion show, features a lot of scenes of its subject at work, interspersed with casual conversations in which he discusses his life and his influences.
His Turn
Below the Belt
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Now might not be the best time for you to shell out $1,300 for a single-day solo activity, but BMW's M Track Days might actually be one of the best deals out there.”
Sole Survivor
Fork in the Road
Available now
Beyoncé's second solo album gets the 20th-anniversary treatment: Four LPs, unreleased B-sides, a 60-page booklet and two art prints. B'DAY was the record where she stopped hedging and started building the machine. The reissue adds first-time features with Maluma and Selena, and rebuilds the era’s videos from 35mm into 4K. This album might be a bit steep for casual listeners, but it’s right for the shelf of true fans.
Available September 18
The artist formerly known as Miley Cyrus follows Something Beautiful, her glam-rock visual album, with Bass Persuades. Miley’s spent the last five years converting stunt casting into actual craft—Plastic Hearts and Endless Summer Vacation both held up. On Instagram she remarked on the new album: “Music takes hold of us. We feel it, sing it, sometimes dance to it, let it out and carry on. It is powerful, vulnerable, sweet and strong.”
Available September 18
Orville Peck's fourth record, and the first since a covers-and-duets detour that put him next to Willie Nelson and Elton John. The fringe mask might be a bit, but the baritone and the songwriting certainly aren't—Pony and Bronco both earned their reviews.
Mirror Check
Two-Wheel Haul
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While it's been par for the course for oil-related prices to increase, seeing them nearly double is unheard of.”
Level Up
T Myths
Apple’s music team says that the dance music in the 1990s kicked off a new golden age of club sounds.
With nearly a million views, this playlist features the videos to hit by Technotronic, MC Hammer, Salt-N-Pepa and CeCe Penisto.
Packed with more than four hours worth of music, this playlist has over 425,000 saves and features hip-hop, electronica and pop dance hits.
Last Call
Fringe Benefits
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It’s been a long time since a single calendar year has been so completely stacked as the one we’re having right now.”
Vroom
Telling Time
Out now
Guy Ritchie's crime-comedy series returns: an aristocrat inherits an estate that comes with a weed operation and the criminals who run it. This season, Eddie fully embraces his role as a ruthless criminal mastermind expanding his family's drug empire alongside Susie Glass, while his resentful brother Freddy triggers a bloody conspiracy that ends in a violent showdown.
Out now
The writer-director team of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (the duo behind Game Night) is back with a retro (and comedic) Cold War thriller. Ryan Reynolds plays Troy Kelly, a U.S. Air Force pilot who has to bail out of his jet in Soviet airspace, in the midst of the Cold War. But he gets help from Nikolai Ustinov (Kenneth Branagh), a disillusioned ex-K.G.B. agent who finds America fascinating.
September 16
The popular Reacher series gets its own action spinoff. Neagley is a hard-ass detective show about a steely Chicago private investigator who is one of Jack Reacher’s few friends. Maria Sten reprises her role as Frances Neagley, the former military police officer who’s also an expert at assessing threats and neutralizing them.
Final Bow
Making Scents
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Hotels are a little public. For this particular missive, we’re thinking more about one of those let’s get the hell out of here and focus on us kind of weekends. We’re thinking private.”
Fold Play
Track Record
If acquiring a new pair of shoes is among life's great pleasures, then the act of breaking them in is one of its greatest pains. Don't be discouraged. In fact, it's a rite of passage every man should endure.
Bespoke
Court Time
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A beard may be easier than daily shaving, but it still needs attention.”
Prancing Horse
New Digs
Wax London's Whiting overshirt returns for Autumn ’26 in five fresh wool-blend check colorways. More than a shirt but not quite a jacket, it’s the brand’s shirting approach (oversized check in a texture-forward fabric, considered construction and comfortable fit) that make it such a reliable layer through the colder months. It anchors the first drop of a two-part seasonal collection tied to a London-themed campaign.
Drop Alert
Built to Last
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When you fall in love with a cocktail, you want to go back and have that cocktail again at that bar.”
Silent Roar
Hungry Games
Out now
Marlon James won the Booker for A Brief History of Seven Killings, and this one’s longlisted too — a sprawling, profane novel of AIDS-era Kingston that moves across decades and continents. The Guardian calls it bitter, bawdy and ravishing, while the New York Times says it’s the “novel of the decade, if not the century.”
Out now
Emma Cline's follow-up to The Guest, the novel that made grifting through the Hamptons feel like a slow-motion car crash you couldn’t look away from. She writes drift and class anxiety better than almost anyone else. This book is a mesmerizing story of an aging man’s last pilgrimage across Europe—both darkly humorous and profoundly moving.
Out September 15
Emily St. John Mandel follows Sea of Tranquility with this wild story set after the collapse of the United States following a civil war. This is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own, and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change.
Hola, Barcelona
Vroom
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We’ve seen crazy gem-set Daytonas before […] but something about the shockingly bright colors used in these Four Seasons Daytonas makes them even wilder.”
Cask Study
Two Wheels
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Rule Breakers
Pack Your Bags
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Ford made waves recently when it announced that its upcoming Fathom electric truck would start at just $29,945.”
Polo Position
Cart Blanche
Derek Guy, the gentleman behind Die Workwear who’s generally known as the “internet’s menswear guy,” put out an interesting musing on the smarmy feeling of having to deal with business. There was some debate on whether salesmanship is good or bad, but everyone seemed to agree that LinkedIn sucks.
Bag Man
Shop Talk
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The biggest thing was not trying to do too much too soon and really trusting what my body was telling me.”
Vroom
Good Grief, Style
Out now
Timex just dropped a new ice blue sunburst dial to its 1976 Lexington Reissue, a $149 rectangular dress watch that's quietly become one of the brand's hottest releases, with five prior variations selling out. The polished steel case, Roman numeral dial and tobacco leather strap read far above the price. And so does that dial, drawing comparisons to a certain Tiffany blue.
Making Scents
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Over the course of seven days, our expedition took the newest entry in the sport-ute world to remote Mayan ruins via the sloppiest logging paths.”
Sole Upgrade
To Infinity
In 1897, the first section of Boston’s Tremont Street subway opened, creating the first underground public transportation system in North America. It was so popular, that over 100,000 passengers rode the train on its first day, instantly easing street congestion.
