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Black Book: 10 Products Our Editors Loved in April 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in April 2026.

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The Iceland Most People Don’t See
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Jim Beam’s Small-Batch Booker’s Bourbon Is A Must-Buy in 2026
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Not All Agave Spirits Are Tequila or Mezcal

A deeper dive into Mexico’s lesser-known pours.

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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now
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Black Book: 10 Products Our Editors Loved in March 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in March 2026.

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Not All Agave Spirits Are Tequila or Mezcal

A deeper dive into Mexico’s lesser-known pours.

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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now

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The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle
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The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle

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Hypershell X Review: The Future of Hiking Has Legs

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The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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150 Years of Bulova: The Watch Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed

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How to Make Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Hamburger

Whether you're talking real or fictional, there are few characters throughout history as iconic as Ernest "Papa" Hemingway. During his time off and on in Cuba from 1939 to 1960, Hemingway would write two of his most celebrated novels For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
2020 Land Rover Defender

After a long wait, the off-road legend returns in modern form. The 2020 Land Rover Defender promises even more rugged prowess but with more modern appointments and a fresh design. In 2-door 90 and 4-door 110 variants, the Defender carries over iconic cues like the round headlights in a rectangular…

By Amos Kwon
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Cameras
The Polaroid Lab Turns Your Smartphone Pictures into Polaroids

We love the fact that modern smartphones give us the ability and convenience of being able to take great photos wherever we are and share them with the world. And yet, we still long for the nostalgia and tangibility of the old school Polaroid. That's where the Polaroid Lab comes…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Braun Is Getting Back into the Audio Game with a New Line of Speakers

Six decades ago around 1959, Braun released the Dieter Rams-designed LE1 speaker, the first electrostatic mode loudspeaker available on the German hi-fi market. After being absent from the audio business for almost thirty years since then, Braun is getting back into the speaker game with an all new line of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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“Doctor Sleep” Final Trailer

In case you haven't been paying attention--or, for whatever reason, you didn't watch the Doctor Sleep Official Teaser Trailer when we wrote about it--there's a sequel to The Shining set to hit theaters later this year, and it's called Doctor Sleep. Ewan McGregor steps into the role of a Danny Torrance…

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