The Modern Art of Divorce

What’s bad for billionaires Harry and Linda Macklowe is very, very good for art collectors

By Rich Cohen
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The View from Here

The View from Here

Fuel shortages, empty supermarket shelves, and bleak holidays ahead: in London, Brexit is finally making itself heard

By John Sweeney
Film and Television

Underneath the Velvet Underground

Todd Haynes turns to documentary to get at the heart of Lou Reed’s 1960s New York City band

By David Yaffe
Just Arrived • October 16, 2021
Issue No. 118
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New Arrivals

Room Service, Please! Few things in life are better than a visit to a familiar, first-rate hotel. So after you check in and order up a club sandwich, spoil yourself with these special discoveries from, and reminiscent of, favorite properties around the globe—as well as some items to get you there in style

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Film and Television

Susan Soon He Stanton

By Jensen Davis
Morning Meeting

The Podcast You Need to Hear

By Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey
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He’s More than Logan Roy

By Peter Biskind
Business

When Goldman Sachs partners want a divorce, they turn to this little-known and highly aggressive firm …

Trust Busters

By William D. Cohan
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Yali

Approximately 32 percent of the women on Air Mail’s editorial staff regularly wear Yali velvet blazers. It’s because designer Pia Zanardi’s…

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Wife of a Spy

In Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s most recent movie, a wartime wife in 1940s Japan is haunted by two…

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Bear Brooksbank

I once lost a diamond necklace after it slid out of my clutch bag in the back of a cab. (Don’t worry, the taxi driver found it and returned it…

Books

Swans Along Fifth Avenue A new book feeds our continuing fascination with Truman Capote—and the society beauties he loved and hated

By Sam Kashner
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Palace Intrigue

By Roland White
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M.I.6 and All That

By Christian Lorentzen
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Petty Clash The left-leaning Paul Samuelson and right-leaning Milton Friedman went to their graves disagreeing with each other over economics

By Nicholas Wapshott
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Bon Voyage!

By Julia Vitale
Culture

Life on the Orient Express

By Sarah Hyde
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Don’t Pass Him By

By Andy Meek

Cosmic Yuri A new biography details the life of Yuri Soloviev, the best ballet dancer you’ve never heard of

By Laura Jacobs
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A Day in the Life

By Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Culture

So Much More than a Shop

By Sarah Hyde
Culture

Opera Pick of the Week

By Matthew Gurewitsch
Guest Edit

My Favorite Things After spending more than 20 years as a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, Amy Fine Collins is now synonymous with high fashion. Herewith, the AIR MAIL Editor at Large shares her top shopping picks of the moment

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Culture

La Dolce Marina A documentary on the Italian film producer Marina Cicogna, who worked with everyone from Sergio Leone to Franco Zeffirelli, premieres in Rome

By Bob Colacello
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Arts and Letters

A Bigger Splash

By Lisa Hilton
Style and Living

Palace Intrigue

By Carolyn Asome
Books

Sounds of Silence

By Julia Vitale
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Bowie’s Top 100

By John O’Connell
Crime and Scandal

There’s the Rub

By Sheila Weller
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The Royal Family

Naughty Nights with Randy Andy

By Vassi Chamberlain