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Features - Food and Travel / Recommendations

The Scoop on Paris’s Ice Cream Boom

As Paris swelters through another heatwave filled summer, four ice cream makers reflect on queues, virality and surviving winter.

Words by Grace Jewitt
Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Features - Literature / Recommendations

What the Mastermind Team Is Reading this Summer

From Michigan suburbs to 70,000 years of history, here are this summer's literary picks from the Mastermind team.

La Collectionneuse (1985) CAP/SFS Image supplied by Capital Pictures / Alamy
Features - Literature / Recommendations

The Summer’s Essential Books

The guide to the season’s most exciting fiction and nonfiction, from debut novelists to two-time Pulitzer winners.

Words by Barry Pierce
Image of 'Cool Machine' by Colson Whitehead courtesy of Fleet.
Features - Recommendations

A Cultural Guide to Paris this May

Everything to watch, visit and attend in the city this month.

Words by Caitlin Hennessy and Elspeth Mair
Barbara Lennie, left, and Victoria Luengo in “Bitter Christmas,” directed by Pedro Almodóvar. (Iglesias Mas / Sony Pictures Classics)
Features - Recommendations

A Cultural Guide to Paris this April

The films, exhibitions and openings worth knowing about this month.

Lee Miller, Femmes équipées de masques contre les incendies Fire masks
Downshire Hill, Londres, 1941 Lee Miller Archives
© Lee Miller Archives, England 2025 All rights reserved
Features - Food and Travel / Recommendations

Curator Daniel Merritt’s Guide to Aspen

From hidden galleries to mountaintop vistas, the Aspen Art Museum’s chief curator shares his favorite spots in town and the ways in which the landscape inspires him.

Installation view of Nairy Baghramian, Jupon de Corps, 2023. Courtesy the Artist and Aspen Art Museum.
Photo Michel Ziegler
Features - Interviews / Recommendations

Chloë Sevigny’s Tour of New York

Straight from the new issue of Mastermind, the Queen of New York delivers a recommendation-filled tour of her city.

Interview by Caitlin Hennessy
Photography by Craig McDean
Fashion by Alice Goddard
Features - News / Recommendations

A Cultural Guide to Paris this March

From blockbuster exhibitions to under-the-radar openings, these are the cultural highlights defining Paris this month.

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) La Noce, 1905 Huile sur toile, 163 x 114 cm
Paris, musée de l’Orangerie, achat, 1959
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée de l’Orangerie) / Hervé Lewandowski