Age Well
Sole Search
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I work on a lot of stuff that other people don’t want to work on.”
Ad Nauseam
Screen Time
Suede is soft, luxurious and textural. It’s more durable than people think but it still needs to be cared for. Maybe the once-luxe fuzzy nap is a bit deflated or the color is now a bit dingy and dull. Our guide will help you revive everything from shoes and jackets to bags.
Trap Stars
Sole Mates
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I just don’t care anymore, and that scares me more than getting fired.”
Two-Wheeler
Pharaoh Real
Your home bar could use a little history. Skip the shiny new stuff and hunt down a vintage cocktail shaker instead. Whether it’s sleek midcentury stainless steel or something a little more eccentric, an old shaker brings instant character, unexpected design and a bit of whimsy to your setup before you even pour a drink.
Wrist Check
Race Ready
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The room is exactly as we had hoped it would be. A mirage of red neon and gastronomic pleasure.”
Jailbreak
Cask Study
Now showing
Paul Greengrass returns to the handheld, procedural historical thriller with The Uprising. He made United 93 and Captain Phillips, so expect real events compressed into something tense and legible rather than reverent. Early chatter suggests he's taken liberties with the record. Worth seeing in a theater.
Now showing
John Wilson spent four seasons on How To with John Wilson turning New York's sidewalk detritus into accidental philosophy. The History of Concrete is his first feature — same anxious narration, same footage nobody else would think to shoot, now with room to wander. Watch it before someone explains it to you.
September 25
Lance Oppenheim, who made the unsettling Some Kind of Heaven and Ren Faire, turns to Chris Hansen and the To Catch a Predator era, with A24 distributing. Oppenheim's specialty is finding the strangeness inside American institutions, and network true-crime TV is fertile ground.
Vroom
Icon At Home
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What appears effortless and playful is, in reality, an extraordinary exercise in engineering, craftsmanship and detail.”
Sole Mates
Check In
A disorganized fridge costs more than space. It wastes food, dulls appetite and turns everyday eating into a low-grade negotiation. Most men think of the fridge as storage. Some treat it like it’s a junk drawer. But it’s not. The best refrigerator is actually a system.
Good Hair Day
Tick Tock
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The pizza capital of the world is no longer in Naples—and it isn’t in New York.”
Vroom
Sleep On It
UNIQLO’s designer collaboration with Lemaire's Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran wraps with this Fall/Winter 2026 capsule, the last after a decade of pairing minimalist, workwear-inflected design with UNIQLO’s price points. The lineup includes a hooded blouson, barrel chinos, a double-face sweater, and a crew neck tee, the same understated basics that made the sub-label a staple.
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.
