King Charles and Sting's preferred watering hole, this historically men's-only club voted to accept female members for the first time in 193 years. Not everyone's happy about it.| airmail.news
A biographer of the great 20th-century wit attempts to uncover 12 hours’ worth of lost recordings made by Gloria Vanderbilt’s husband Wyatt Cooper.| airmail.news
What, me whore-y? Steve Bannon plots, Donald Trump brags, and Prince Andrew is cast out By George Kalogerakis It was a week for the (Dark) Ages: Donald Trump’s runaway victory with 59.4 percent of your vote reflected just how spectacularly he outdid even himself, beginning with the feces-dump video and ending with the pardon of his convicted crypto business partner, which he justified to a CNN reporter this way: “You know nothing about nothing. You’re fake news … I gave him a pardon a...| Air Mail
A spoonful of sugar makes the coffee go down … On this week’s podcast, Stuart Heritage discusses the fight that could put the First Lady on the stand By Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey This week, Stuart Heritage gives us his perspective on the Epstein-related lawsuit facing Melania and Donald Trump. Then Alexandra Marshall reports from France on what life is like in prison for former president Nicolas Sarkozy. And finally, Todd James Pierce reveals how Julie Andrews earned the role that s...| Air Mail
Interior life: Henry Holland with items from his furniture collection. Henry Holland’s racy, rhyming T-shirts were once the hottest item in the fashion world. Now he’d rather make pots By Ashley Baker Henry Holland is not the first fashion designer who’s been tempted to give it all up and throw pots—but he is the most successful. Today, he builds marbleized espresso mugs and gingham planters out of his studio in Hackney, London, where his twin kilns (which he’s named Janice and Stan...| Air Mail
Justine Lupe’s last words before execution: “I’ll see you in court.” The Nobody Wants This actress shares her least favorite things No role is too small for Justine Lupe. The Juilliard graduate is best known as Willa, Connor Roy’s younger girlfriend in HBO’s Succession—a recurring character who evolved into a series regular and fan favorite, thanks to lines like “At least I’m only getting fucked by one member of this family.” In fact, Lupe has carved out a bit of a niche f...| Air Mail
The comedian has successfully hidden behind his Curb persona for years. Photograph by Jonathan Becker. A new book on the making of Curb Your Enthusiasm offers rare insight into its creator, from his pre-Seinfeld misery to his lifelong friendship with Richard Lewis By Stuart Heritage For all the plaudits that Curb Your Enthusiasm received over its lifespan, for how funny and daring and groundbreaking it was, people seem to have missed the fact that it provided Larry David with the perfect oppo...| Air Mail
listen By Andie Blaine Rosalía’s first offering from her upcoming Luxalbum (out November 7) is her most experimental yet. READ ON| Air Mail
Hands up! Nicolas Sarkozy’s downfall ultimately stemmed from charges of a criminal conspiracy connected to a Libyan attempt to illegally finance his election campaign. The grandest fails—and greatest hits!—of France’s first incarcerated former president, who moved into La Santé Prison just last week By Alexandra Marshall It should have been us, guys. We got federal indictments and New York State convictions. But, no, it’s Nicolas Sarkozy and not Donald Trump who woke up on the morn...| Air Mail
read By Alessandra Stanley People may get the government they deserve, but Russian women don’t. The Bolsheviks’ promise of equality broke down quickly READ ON| Air Mail
There are still groups of undecided voters out there, waiting to be persuaded. Featuring: people stuck underground on the train, people stuck in their Halloween costumes, and more By James Folta With Election Day just around the corner, the candidates for mayor, the City Council, district attorney, and more are crisscrossing the boroughs to get out every last vote. Early voting has been huge this year, and nearly 300,000 New Yorkers have already cast their ballots. But there are still groups ...| Air Mail
The King has “initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew.” In an endless post-Epstein-gate spiral, the disgraced Andrew has lost his title—no more “prince”—and now his lease, trading Royal Lodge for a cottage on his brother’s estate By Ellie McDonald and Jack Blackburn There is something oddly fitting about Andrew Mountbatten Windsor ending up in a home on the Sandringham Estate. The estate was bought for the future Edward VII when he was...| Air Mail
In a class of their own. A collection of 12 new stories about P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster—including tales by Roddy Doyle and Dominic Sandbrook—update the duo By Patrick Kidd On July 22, 1916, a private in the Warwickshire Regiment was killed on the Somme. His body was never found and he never knew the influence he had on literature. Three years earlier he had been bowling for his county at the Cheltenham cricket festival and caught the eye of a spectator. When PG Wodehouse need...| Air Mail
look By Gracie Wiener As an art-and-jewelry historian, I consider last week’s Louvre heist to be my Watergate, which has led me to revisit the 2015 book READ ON| Air Mail
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read By Jim Kelly In this day and age, it is impossible to believe that 15 million Americans would tune in to the same late-night comedy showREAD ON| Air Mail
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Dig these rhythm and blues! Chuck Berry—the duckwalking rock ’n’ roll pioneer (1926–2017) whose classic songs include, among many others, “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Maybellene,” “Sweet Little Sixteen,” and “Johnny B. Goode”—would have turned 99 last month. By Drew Friedman This item was originally published on airmail.news. Read on Air Mail →| Air Mail
read By Maggie Turner Black funerals in New York City were once a celebration, welcoming the deceased into an afterlife of READ ON| Air Mail
sleep By Ashley Baker Getting a set of Matouk sheets is always a thrill, but new duvets are rarely a reason to celebrate. Enter Ostermoor, whose handmade READ ON| Air Mail
Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in the 1964 Disney film adaptation of Pamela Lyndon Travers’s classic stories. How Walt Disney and the Sherman brothers landed on Julie Andrews for the role of Mary Poppins—without whom “A Spoonful of Sugar” would not exist By Todd James Pierce In the early 1960s, Walt Disney worked with the Sherman brothers, Bob and Dick, to develop the Mary Poppins stories into material for the screen. As Disney and the brothers, along with story artist Don DaGradi, set...| Air Mail
Optimo Hats founder Graham Thompson at work. On the South Side of Chicago, the founder of Optimo Hats quietly churns out impeccably made fedoras and Panamas for clients including Sean Penn and John C. Reilly By Nathan King An old chestnut goes that American men cast off their hats once and for all in 1961, when John F. Kennedy stood up to deliver his inaugural address with nothing atop his big auburn head to protect it from the gelid, 22-degree Washington day. But Optimo Hats founder Graham T...| Air Mail
Toni Morrison, Truman Capote, Patti Smith … A new coffee-table book collects Richard Avedon’s portraits of his aging subjects By Carolina de Armas If the renowned fashion-and-portrait photographer Richard Avedon had listed his relationship status with cameras on Facebook—a platform launched just months before his death, in 2004—he likely would have chosen “It’s complicated.” As he confessed in his book with Truman Capote, Observations (1959), “I hate cameras. They interfere, t...| Air Mail
Nothing fishy here: R.F.K. Jr. hangs out with Russell Brand and Dr. Mehmet Oz in February. This week in American health: former U.S. surgeon generals sound the alarm, while R.F.K. Jr. sets his sights on … circumcision and sugar beets By Carolina de Armas and Paulina Prosnitz YOU’VE GOT MAIL Just one month after nine former C.D.C. directors slammed R.F.K. Jr. in a New York Times op-ed, six former U.S. surgeon generals have issued a strongly worded letter of their own in The Washington Post...| Air Mail
Despite its formality and grandeur, it’s ultimately a place to relax. Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa, in Baden-Baden, has reopened after a loving renovation By Rachel Johnson Germany is another country. They do things differently there (mostly sans clothes, not just culottes). But before I bare all: Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa, the grandest hotel in the grandest spa town in Europe, has reopened after an expensive and painstaking renovation. It’s a destination hotel in a destination town. And it...| Air Mail
Returning to La Scala three-quarters into the house’s new “Ring” cycle, Alexander Soddy conducts Robert Carsen’s new production of Così Fan Tutte (pictured), which was planned as a debut. Maestro Soddy plants another flag at La Scala with this month’s Così Fan Tutte By Matthew Gurewitsch “I never had the discipline to be a concert pianist,” says the trim, fresh-faced Alexander Soddy, 42, an Oxford-born former boy chorister who went on to become a choral scholar at Cambridge. ...| Air Mail
Has it been six years already? By Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley It seems funny now, but on July 20, 2019, we were so excited—and nervous—about the first issue of Air Mail that a group of us gathered at the office on West Ninth Street at five a.m. to watch the first batch of Saturday e-mails go out, holding our breath like NASA engineers launching the maiden voyage of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981. Only chief technology officer John Tornow, who pressed Send from mission contro...| Air Mail
Shortly after the UnitedHealthcare killing, evidence emerged that Luigi Mangione, right, had not only read but reviewed the Unabomber manifesto, by Ted Kaczynski, left.For a window into the motive of UnitedHealthcare killer Luigi Mangione, one biographer delved deep into the world of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s admirers By John H. Richardson Early in my correspondence with Ted Kaczynski, which went on for years while he was behind bars, I asked him about a group of Latin American eco-terroris...| Air Mail
Andy Warhol with Edie Sedgwick and Chuck Wein in New York, 1965. By Spike Carter Twenty years ago, I discovered a Web page compiling nearly three decades’ worth of J. Hoberman’s Top Ten Films of the Year lists for The Village Voice. This precious URL became my de facto cinema syllabus in high school. It was my introduction to one-of-one directors such as Chantal Akerman, James Benning, and Tsai Ming-liang. (Despite not being particularly into sports, I even tracked down a VHS copy of Game...| Air Mail
What, me whore-y? Donald Trump damns himself, Prince Andrew dooms himself, and Kristi Noem deludes herself By George Kalogerakis Last week’s voting produced more of a horse race than the A.W.I. has seen lately. Yes, Donald Trump finished first (35 percent)—breaking Pete Hegseth’s one-week winning streak—largely on the strength of his agitating for a Nobel Prize and lying about having, years ago, warned everyone about Osama bin Laden, if only the world had listened, etc. But not far be...| Air Mail
“Why the hell not?” The Game of Thrones actor answers 19 of life’s most pressing questions Between René Redzepi’s Noma and Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stands as one of Denmark’s crown jewels. The actor from the small town of Rudkøbing became a national sensation at 24 with his lead role in Ole Bornedal’s acclaimed 1994 horror film, Nightwatch. But it was his dazzling part in Game of Thrones—as Jaime Lannister, the cocky brother and par...| Air Mail
Nothing fishy here: R.F.K. Jr. hangs out with Russell Brand and Dr. Mehmet Oz in February. This week in American health: R.F.K. Jr. reverses course on Tylenol and sets his sights on wind turbines; Cheryl Hines can’t stop, won’t stop; and more By Carolina de Armas and Paulina Prosnitz TYLENOL’S REDEMPTION Fish your Tylenol out of the trash! R.F.K. Jr. admitted this week that he does not have “sufficient” evidence to prove the household pain reliever causes autism. The health secretar...| Air Mail
Trump didn’t buy the Bonwit Teller building to preserve a historical monument. He wanted to create a monument to himself. Last week’s surprise demolition of the White House’s East Wing wasn’t the first time Trump destroyed a great American building By Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm Donald Trump’s relationship to the Metropolitan Museum of Art was permanently damaged early on. He refused to donate artworks that he had promised to the museum and instead had them destroyed, along wit...| Air Mail
“Best friendship feels like the love story of my life.” The Billions actor and comedian is making her directorial debut with Sorry, Baby, starring Naomi Ackie and Lucas Hedges By Anna Grace Lee For Eva Victor, the road to making Sorry, Baby began in a kind of pandemic-era “hell.” It was 2020, and Victor was living in a small Brooklyn apartment with approximately one window and a troublemaking teenage cat. The 31-year-old filmmaker, who uses they/she pronouns, got a list of movie recom...| Air Mail
A new book by Ken Browar and Deborah Ory celebrates the centennial of the groundbreaking troupe with archival images, new photographs, and essays.| airmail.news
Nothing fishy here: R.F.K. Jr. hangs out with Russell Brand and Dr. Mehmet Oz in February. This week in American health: Democratic governors unite against an increasingly insane R.F.K. Jr.; Cheryl Hines and Olivia Nuzzi speak their truth; and more By Carolina de Armas and Paulina Prosnitz FOOL’S GOLD Sixteen governors have formed a multi-state alliance to counter the suspect data that R.F.K. Jr. and his teetering federal health agencies are putting out. This secession opens a new chapter i...| Air Mail
Why aren't more university presidents fighting back?| airmail.news
Was FTX a good business helmed by a bad leader, or a crypto casino that fueled a criminal enterprise from its 2019 inception?| airmail.news
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Ezra Chowaiki was one of New York's top art dealers until he got busted for wire fraud. Now, he's spilling the beans on the art world's shady practices.| airmail.news
wear By Ashley Baker There are so many good-looking statement pieces in Forte Forte’s new fall collection that we feel almost boring singling out READ ON| Air Mail
visit By Ashley Baker What do Milan and Los Angeles have in common? (Besides an awful lot of stylish, deep-pocketed shoppers … ) Visitors to READ ON| Air Mail
With Halloween around the corner, music photographer Mick Rock’s behind-the-scenes images from the set of The Rocky Horror Picture Show offer a rare glimpse into the making of Richard O’Brien’s campy cult classic By Carolina de Armas The Rocky Horror Picture Show turns 50 this year, and if you still haven’t caught a midnight screening of the longest-running theatrical release in film history (grossing more than $200 million to date), then all we have to say is “Dammit, Janet!” And...| Air Mail
Nothing fishy here: R.F.K. Jr. hangs out with Russell Brand and Dr. Mehmet Oz in February. This week in American health: I.V.F. and Planned Parenthood feel the heat, and R.F.K. Jr. wants to bring steak and butter back like it’s the 1950s By Carolina de Armas and Paulina Prosnitz CUTTING THE CORD Months after eliminating the C.D.C. team that oversaw safety guidelines for birth control, R.F.K. Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services has fired all but one member of the 50-person Office...| Air Mail
One for the road, please. On this week’s podcast, John von Sothen goes on a quest to visit one of the world’s great sculptures By Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey This week, Alessandra Stanley discusses how the Trump administration is turning away Russians seeking asylum. Then John von Sothen reveals how he learned that one of the great masterpieces of Western art has been sequestered inside a convent in remote Canada for 200 years. Listen by clicking Play below. And be sure to subscribe a...| Air Mail
Sam Shepard debuted his play Operation Sidewinder at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in the spring of 1970. Inside the making of Operation Sidewinder, the playwright’s first and only drama to premiere on Broadway By Robert M. Dowling The first to answer their phone was an 86-year-old Hopi-Winnebago man named Louis Mofsie, or Green Rainbow, a founding member of Thunderbird American Indian Dancers. I was conducting research for my biography Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard...| Air Mail
Roc star: Michel Babin de Lignac, photographed by Jean Pigozzi. For 50 years, Michel Babin de Lignac has welcomed the world’s stars to the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc with grace, charm—and a firm hand when necessary By Ashley Baker What could Tennessee Williams, Madonna, and Elodie from housekeeping possibly have in common—other than a soft spot for Michel Babin de Lignac? For half a century, they’ve known exactly where to find him—standing guard over his small slice of the South of Fran...| Air Mail
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The Lyma Laser Pro, $5,995. A laser that turns back time! The best drone for the amateur filmmaker! A game that’s more addicting than Wordle? And more … By Jonathan Margolis The Lyma Laser Pro A wrinkle-zapping laser that lives up to the last word in its name The slightly grating adjective “pro” was originally used on tech products almost 50 years ago and meant what it said—that the device was designed for people who needed extra functions and durability for their work. Thanks in no...| Air Mail
The Andes Mountains, like you’ve never seen them before. Nestled in the Andes, the Tinajani lodge delivers low-key luxury, pristine wilderness, and great adventures By Stanley Stewart Halfway between Cuzco and Lake Titicaca, in southern Peru, a track leads upward through a wide valley in the Andes Mountains, golden with the grasses of the Altiplano. At its far end, the valley is enclosed by red sandstone cliffs—rock walls, towers, and outcrops the size of office buildings, smoothed and sc...| Air Mail
read By Jim Kelly A spat among several states over how to number their shared highway system way back in 1926 gave us Route 66READ ON| Air Mail
The irreverent “Godfather of Pop Art” in his Long Island studio, 1992. How the contents of Larry Rivers’s estate and foundation ended up in a second-tier gallery near New Hope, Pennsylvania By Roxanne Robinson Three months ago, Jim Alterman posted a video on Instagram from his gallery, Jim’s of Lambertville in New Jersey, just across the river from New Hope, Pennsylvania, in which he “smashed” a work by Larry Rivers—once hailed as the “Godfather of Pop Art”—over his adult ...| Air Mail
sparkle By Gracie Wiener Marla Aaron’s latest collection is not exactly new—in fact, it’s almost 300 years old. The first READ ON| Air Mail
John Updike at his home in Massachusetts, 1978. By Thomas Beller Early on in his prodigious career, John Updike began to bundle stacks of his personal papers off to the Houghton Library at Harvard, which eagerly collected them. Posterity on the installment plan. It should come as no surprise that an author who produced a vast shelf of novels, story collections, essay collections, books of literary and art criticism, volumes of poetry, and a memoir should have written a lot of letters—more t...| Air Mail
Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Season Eight, Episode One of Seinfeld, in which Kramer convinces Elaine to take charge after her boss runs off to Myanmar. Whitney Wolfe Herd, of Bumble; Leandra Medine Cohen, of Man Repeller; Audrey Gelman, of the Wing … The female founders are back, baby. Is anyone surprised? By Jessa Crispin The girlboss rose, and the girlboss fell. She died, she was autopsied in every major publication, her estate was settled, and her board members changed out of mourning wear and...| Air Mail
Sinigaglia Stadium, home of the Como 1907 soccer club, overlooking the lake. How a Northern Italian soccer team went from being a little-known, chronically underfunded local club to one of Europe’s most glamorous squads By Mattia Ferraresi In just a few short years, the soccer club Como 1907 has transformed its small-town grit into a magnet for the international elite vacationing on Lake Como. The Indonesian billionaire brothers, Robert and Michael Hartono, owners of the cigarette giant Dja...| Air Mail
During the Cold War, America was a haven for Russian dissidents. Now we’re delivering them to the Kremlin By Alessandra Stanley In the 1985 Cold War thriller White Nights, Mikhail Baryshnikov plays a Soviet ballet dancer who defects to the West. Years later, when his plane makes an emergency landing in Siberia, the dancer races down the aisle in horror, screaming, “We are landing in Russia!” Many Russians who managed to escape Putin’s iron curtain are now facing the same terrifying fa...| Air Mail
A beating heart, grown from induced pluripotent stem cells. Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka’s breakthrough has renewed the ancient dream of eternal youth. A new wave of tech companies wants to stop aging before it starts By Lucas Chancellor The prospect of eternal youth has long tantalized humanity, with its earliest recorded depiction dating back to 2100 B.C., in The Epic of Gilgamesh. This fixation continued, from Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s ill-fated quest for the elixir of life to the lege...| Air Mail
Top, the Ukrainian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky; above, the Royal Danish Ballet’s soloist Mathieu Rouaux and principal dancer Astrid Elbo, in rehearsals for The Art of Fugue. In Copenhagen, the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky reimagines The Art of Fugue as a ballet, transforming Bach’s esteemed final score into an abstract work in five acts By Genevieve Marks Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Art of Fugue is a fiendish work of near-mythical status. Written during the last seven years of the ...| Air Mail
Alain Delon, Brigitte Bardot, and Eddie Barclay at Club 55 in 1968. Since opening in 1955, the glamorous St. Tropez beach club has attracted everyone from Roger Moore to Alain Delon and Brigitte Bardot By Joan Collins Entering the bougainvillea-covered entrance to Club 55 at lunchtime last July 4, I was looking forward to the annual American Independence Day celebration that was always held at this iconic restaurant. As usual, the whole of the outdoor venue was a riot of stars and stripes. Am...| Air Mail
An OpenAI Sora video peddling one of the Internet’s countless conspiracies surrounding “the DoorDash girl.” TikTok, Reddit, and X are abuzz over the alleged sexual assault of a female delivery driver By Stuart Heritage Any connoisseur of screaming at people on the Internet will remember “the Dress”: a viral photograph of a Roman Originals frock that was either white and gold or blue and black depending on the viewer. If you do remember the Dress, you’ll be familiar with the havoc ...| Air Mail
look By Maggie Turner Paul Olivennes knew he was taking on no small task when he founded Magma, the annual art publication looking to revive the tradition READ ON| Air Mail
"You could admire them, you could loathe them, sometimes both in the same breath."| airmail.news
"Life: Hollywood," a new coffee-table-book, captures the golden age of American filmmaking, with portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, and others.| airmail.news
In the latest edition of our "The Week in American Health" column: Tylenol-gate, more vaccine-mania, and A.I. Christopher Hitchens lambastes R.F.K. Jr.| airmail.news
In the latest edition of our "The Week in American Health" column: TrumpRx gets the green light; R.F.K. Jr.’s neo-Nazi problem; and the abortion wars rage on.| airmail.news
Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, and Donald Trump battle it out.| airmail.news
Here’s everything we know so far about HBO’s eagerly awaited "Harry Potter" adaptation—starting with John Lithgow as Dumbledore.| airmail.news
The day Rushdie was stabbed, Rowling came out in defense of his rights—and promptly received another death threat on Twitter.| airmail.news
J. K. Rowling unleashed a tirade on X this week against her former protégée, Hermione actress Emma Watson.| airmail.news
Eight months after the wildfires, Malibu’s ocean still glitters, the smoothies still cost $33, and the dream of life overlooking the Pacific is proving hard to kill.| airmail.news
On the French Laundry's 30th anniversary, the chef and restaurateur dishes on the things he hates in AIR MAIL's Imperfect Ending questionnaire.| airmail.news
Daughter of Ingrid Bergman, face of Lancôme, and now a Long Island sheep farmer, the Italian actress reflects on the unexpected joys of aging and being nepo-baby royalty.| airmail.news
The store will be selling chef Flynn McGarry’s vintage and contemporary finds (collected from his travels) alongside creations from local artisans. Plus some holiday treats!| airmail.news
The chef and proprietor of New York's Eleven Madison Park restaurant reveals his favorite people, places, and things in AIR MAIL's Perfect Ending questionnaire.| airmail.news
The entrepreneur tells us what she wears, eats, and watches.| airmail.news
At a party hosted by AIR MAIL and Montblanc, Sarah Jessica Parker, Emma Roberts, and Bette Midler toasted the winners of the inaugural Tom Wolfe literary prizes By Carolina de Armas With a government that bans books and censors public figures, and artificial intelligence that mimics writers’ voices and steals directly from their work, there are vanishingly few opportunities for writers to feel like “Masters of the Universe.” That is, except for a few blissful hours on Tuesday evening at...| Air Mail
decorate By Ashley Baker If decorating is your idea of a good time, Heather Taylor Home’s new collection for The Company| Air Mail
Richard Burton as Henry V, 1951. Matthew Rhys returns to his native Wales to inhabit the baritone Shakespearean actor—and fellow countryman—in a one-man play By Richard Morrison The way Matthew Rhys tells it, from his Brooklyn Heights apartment in New York, he had no choice but to return to his native Wales this autumn. “It’s as if all the planets were aligned,” says the Cardiff-born actor, 50, who has spent most of the past 20 years starring in American-made films and TV series suc...| Air Mail
watch By Alessandra Stanley When Ragtime made its Broadway debut in 1998, The New York Times described the musical as “a diorama with nostalgia rampant.” READ ON| Air Mail
… and Granny takes a sip. On this week’s podcast, Mark Rozzo discusses the wild shop that dressed John and Paul, Mick, Lou Reed, and many more in London’s Swinging 60s By Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey This week, Mark Rozzo remembers Granny Takes a Trip, the clothing store that put the swing in London’s Swinging 60s and outfitted everyone from John Lennon and Lou Reed to Mick Jagger and more. And then, as the White House continues to pressure American universities and colleges to cha...| Air Mail
Lost highway: Jack Kerouac and the writer Joyce Johnson in 1958. How did an unpublished story by Jack Kerouac end up in the possession of Gambino crime boss Paul Castellano? By David Barnett A “very significant” unpublished story by Jack Kerouac described as “a lost chapter of the On the Road saga” has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years. The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled Th...| Air Mail
No pumpkin spice here. That’s a promise. On this week’s podcast, Elena Clavarino reveals a part of Italy that needs to be seen to be believed By Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey This week, Elena Clavarino shares her fascinating report on a constellation of small villages, nestled near the tip of Italy’s boot, where locals still speak a Greek dialect dating back more than 3,000 years. Then the esteemed documentarian Errol Morris reflects on his relationship with Robert McNamara, the compl...| Air Mail
watch By Alexandra Lemer Who’s to say that ancient prophecies won’t come true? Meet Patrick McCollum:”a peacemaker, READ ON| Air Mail
bake By Ashley Baker Do you dare describe yourself as a chocoholic if you don’t luxuriate in the confection daily? Chocolat, a new book from the food writer READ ON| Air Mail
wear By Ashley Baker Cable-knits, cardigans, and coats—so rarely do these three exist in a single garment, and yet White & Warren’s new Merino Luxe| Air Mail
read By Jim Kelly All hail Franco Maria Ricci, the Parma-born graphic designer and publisher who, in 1982, created| Air Mail
strut By Catherine Scott La Coqueta and Flabelus, two Spanish brands with a shared fondness for heritage and READ ON| Air Mail
listen By George Kalogerakis You might already love Doc Pomus’s work. Or you might be a fan and not even realize it. Here’s a partial list of the pop gems READ ON| Air Mail
Nestled among the mountains at the tip of Italy’s boot is a constellation of villages that still speak a Greek dialect dating back more than 3,000 years.| airmail.news
Susan Orlean reporting at Rajneeshpuram, a utopian community in Wasco County, Oregon, in 1982. By Nathan Smith Like any good reporter, Susan Orlean did extensive research for her assignment. She interviewed sources, studied published writings, and even visited an archive—only this time, it was her own: the Susan Orlean Papers, at Columbia University. While the sources may have been past colleagues, and the archival papers her own work, Orlean set out to be exhaustive and exacting in chartin...| Air Mail
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Joan Crawford wearing her Raymond Yard–designed jewels, now part of Neil Lane’s collection, circa 1940. In Toledo, an exhibition showcases the jewelry designer Neil Lane’s celebrated private collection, featuring pieces once owned by stars such as Joan Crawford and Ginger Rogers By Ruth Peltason When Neil Lane was growing up in Marine Park, Brooklyn, in the 1950s, the best game in town was scrapping for street castoffs: unwanted highboys, bric-a-brac, the occasional box of costume jewel...| Air Mail
Drinking the day away at the Blue Posts in Soho. Young Londoners are skipping gastro pubs and returning to something a little less polished, more authentic, and decidedly sticky By Charlie Baker It’s Frieze week in London, and one of the unlikeliest of art exhibitions—put on by Tramps gallery—is down a grimy Victorian side street in Kings Cross, above a shuttered pub. The pub, McGlynn’s, was, until its closure in 2023, renowned for its ungentrified ways—sticky red carpet, worn table...| Air Mail
Princess Elizabeth greeting Winston Churchill at a Guildhall reception in London, 1950. By Gerard DeGroot On May 8, 1945, Londoners celebrating V-E Day gathered outside Buckingham Palace, hoping to see the royal family. The royals duly obliged, appearing on the balcony that afternoon. Smack in the middle, however, was an interloper—Prime Minister Winston Churchill, smoking his trademark cigar. The scene was symbolic of how Churchill had wormed his way in among the Windsors. As Andrew Morton...| Air Mail
