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The Coolest Father’s Day Gifts of 2026 (New Products Added 6/5)

The Coolest Father’s Day Gifts of 2026 (New Products Added 6/5)

A curated collection of the best Father’s Day gifts for dads who appreciate craftsmanship, clever design, great stories, and really cool stuff.

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The Journey Collection Makes a Strong Case for Packing Less
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The Italian Art of Dressing Well in the Heat
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Your New Summer Wardrobe, On Us

Enter to win 8 pieces from Iron & Resin. Founded by industry veteran Thom Hill, their mission is to create durable, high-quality apparel and lifestyle goods that are backed by a lifetime guarantee.

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Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in May 2026

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

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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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Your New Summer Wardrobe, On Us

Enter to win 8 pieces from Iron & Resin. Founded by industry veteran Thom Hill, their mission is to create durable, high-quality apparel and lifestyle goods that are backed by a lifetime guarantee.

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What We're Buying
Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in May 2026

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

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Lifestyle
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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Feeling the Burn

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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

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50
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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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I Went Down a Nixon Watch Rabbit Hole. Here Are the 4 Most Surprising Details I Found

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“The Sound of Drawing” Amplified Friction Pencil

Art is, by nature, fluid. It takes virtually any form, utilizes different media, and can even change the way we see the world. Designer Takuma Yamazaki has taken the simple pencil and made it aural art via the “Sound of Drawing” Amplified Friction Pencil that takes the sound of writing…

By Amos Kwon
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Videos
The Dude Returns for a Stella Artois Super Bowl Ad

Jeff Bridges has been putting in some truly remarkable performances across a whole host of genres for longer than most of you reading this have been alive, but he will always be Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski to us. The movie is more than two decades old at this point, so…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gear
The Ocean Space Habitat Tent Lets You Camp Underwater

We've been in love with underwater exploration for as long as we've known how to swim. The fix that came from goggles in the pool naturally evolved into snorkeling in the ocean and eventually scuba diving as we became older, but even with a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, there are…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Misc
Action Bronson ‘Stoned Beyond Belief’

Writing a book called Stoned Beyond Belief requires a certain amount of street cred in the world of electric lettuce. We could see a book with that title coming from Snoop, Willie Nelson, Cheech and Chong, or Bob Marley, but Action Bronson most certainly fits the bill. Bronson's upcoming 200+ page tome…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
CoolNVintage N77 Land Rover Defender SUV

Decorating a car’s chassis as the focus of automobile is like spending all your time on the frame of a piece of artwork while ignoring the canvas. Good thing the CoolNVintage’s Build 77 Art Defender can lean on the legendary look of the iconic Land Rover Defender 110 from 1983.…

By Amos Kwon
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