The Cannes Film Festival Is Dead. Long Live Cannes Lions!
Stars used to go to Cannes to sell movies—now they go to sell themselves
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
The Sky’s the Limit
Fifty years after choosing light as his medium, James Turrell unveils his 100th Skyspace—a Pantheon-size dome in Denmark open in time for the summer solstice
Dancing with Light
In his Paris studio—and in time for a sweeping new retrospective in Spain—Paolo Roversi, the photographer of Rei Kawakubo, Kate Moss, and Stella Tennant, reflects on a lifetime of looking
The Missing Miracle Worker
In 1950, Joe Gaetjens helped the U.S. pull off the greatest upset in World Cup history. Fourteen years later, a Haitian death squad came for him
Batsheva Hay’s Guide to the Upper West Side
The fashion designer shares her go-to spots in the New York neighborhood
Diamond in the Rough
A new edition of Dawn Powell’s 1942 novel, A Time to Be Born, seeks to rehabilitate its author, whose society tales skewered the New York milieu and earned the admiration of Hemingway and Vidal
The View from Here
Announcing the return of AIR MAIL’s Tom Wolfe Prizes for Fiction & Reportage!!!!!!!
Rebecca Ressler
The owner of Hollywood Books has turned her small, finely curated bookstore into a Los Angeles literary hot spot, drawing guests such as Kaia Gerber and Petra Collins
What’s on Trump’s Birthday Playlist?
Trump’s favorite songs offer an unsettling glimpse into his mind: Broadway schmaltz, masculine bombast, and an eerie indifference to the world going up in flames
Barbara Hepworth’s True Colors
An exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, in London, reveals how the British modernist brought color into her abstract sculptures and geometric drawings
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
The Tweet Escape
San Francisco gave away $70 million in tax revenue to lure the nascent social-media company to its bleakest neighborhood. Was it worth it?
Editor’s Picks
This week, don’t miss: the five Cambridge grads who spied for Stalin, how birds evolved from dinosaurs, and a W.W.II novel following two Black U.S. soldiers and a Jewish boy
Phila Lorn’s Guide to Philadelphia
The James Beard-awarded chef of Mawn and Sao shares his go-to spots in the city he calls home
Joe Anders
The 22-year-old son of Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes is carving out a film career on his own terms, with a Netflix screenplay under his belt and a new role alongside Amy Adams and Javier Bardem
“We’d Just Never Seen Anything Like It”
In the summer of 1976, the Sex Pistols played two sparsely attended shows in Manchester. Among the few who did turn up were future members of Buzzcocks, the Fall, the Smiths, and Joy Division
