The Public-House Boys Phil Winser, James Gummer, and Olivier van Themsche—the trio behind the Pelican, the Hero, and the Fat Badger—have done the seemingly impossible: making English pubs fashionable
Letters from Scamelot In her inaugural AIR MAIL party report, Caroline Calloway kisses a stranger at Le Bain, accidentally robs a gallery, and brings her cat to an Eve Babitz reading
Latest Issue • July. 4, 2026
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No. 364
The View from Here
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Celebrating 15 of America’s Artisans Keeping Their Generations-Old Crafts Alive, from Quilting to Basket-Weaving to Pottery-Making
The Length of Trump’s Fingers—Revealed!
An Unhealthy Dose of Skepticism
and more!
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Hôtel du Palais
My heart sank when my cab stopped under the fanned glass porte cochère over the front door of the five-star Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz…
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“An American Beauty”
If, like me, you have the Grateful Dead as the soundtrack to your summer—and every other season—this exhibition might be a welcome…
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Gidget
Gidget is not your ordinary coming-of-age flick. First in the Gidget canon, the 1959 film was adapted from Frederick Kohner’s book…
The AIR MAIL Summer Reading List From Ann Patchett’s tender tale of reconciliation to Jenny Jackson’s juicy seaside romp, here are the 10 books our editors are taking with them on their travels this summer
These Boots Were Made for Walking In an excerpt from Too L.A., Lili Anolik’s new collection of the novelist’s letters, Eve Babitz unleashes a fiery tirade against an unidentified boyfriend who dared to insult her shoes
All You Need Is George Martin The genteel record producer did not look the part of a revolutionary. But as a commemorative new book makes clear, his wildly innovative work with the Beatles changed pop music forever
When Hokusai Met Hiroshige In Tokyo, an exhibition brings together original works by Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige, the 19th-century masters who revolutionized the landscape in Japanese woodblock prints
