From The Office to the Lab
Lee Eisenberg knows funny. But he and his wife, Emily Jane Fox, learned a lot working together on Lessons in Chemistry
Stanley Kubrick’s Waterloo
Having just tackled the end of the world and the mysteries of the universe, the obsessive director set his sights on Napoleon. Tens of thousands of index cards later, he waved the white flag
Are You in Barbra Streisand’s Memoir?
On this week’s podcast, George Kalogerakis reveals how we created the Streisand Index
Lunch with Nicole Avant
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, host Bruce Bozzi is joined by the former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas to talk about family, grief, and growing up in Hollywood
My Name Is Barbra’s Index
Streisand refused to give readers any shortcuts to her 992-page memoir, so we did it for you
Your Grandmother’s Oklahoma!
“Better than the original!” raved Mary Rodgers, the composer’s daughter
Across the Jillyverse
Publishing her 18th novel at 86 years old, novelist Jilly Cooper is as prolific—and ready to talk about sex—as ever
The New Tribes of London
The traditional types—the Hampstead Intellectual, the Chelsea Hooray, the Shoreditch Hipster—have bitten the dust. Meet the new clichés populating the city’s streets
Whiz Syd
A new documentary traces Syd Barrett’s enigmatic life, from co-founding Pink Floyd to dropping out of the music industry entirely
Joining “the Firm”
An aspiring journalist from New Delhi gets a private tour of Kensington Palace—his new girlfriend’s childhood home
Nobels “R” Us
By identifying a gap in the U.K. book market, Jacques Testard turned his kitchen-table publisher into a prizewinning literary powerhouse
School for Scoundrels
Eton College has long played an outsize role in Great Britain’s public life. It’s where some of the country’s most prominent figures were schooled in the art of dissembling
From Tree to Tree
The hidden history of London’s most interesting—and complicated—family
Far from the Madding Hive Mind
Inside the UnHerd Club, London’s liveliest—and most controversial—new literary salon
The Riling Class
Before the British Invasion, there was the satire boom. Its ground zero was a grotty strip joint turned nightclub in Soho that Peter Cook re-christened “the Establishment”
Pauline Boty, Lost and Found
A long-overlooked member of the British Pop-art movement, and one of its few women, gets her due in a new biography
The C-Spot
Nothing validates the dictum that the U.S. and the U.K. are “two nations divided by a common language” quite like this single, four-letter word
Graydon Carter Talks About the London He Loves
On this week’s podcast, AIR MAIL’s Co-Editor takes us inside the London Issue
