The Air Mail Archive: Every weekly issue

Issue No. 374

September 12, 2026

BROKEN LIKE BECKHAM

An overindulged nepo baby turns on his illustrious family and flees to California with his pushy American wife. But unlike Prince Harry, Brooklyn Beckham isn’t coming home anytime soon

MATERNAL INSTINCTS

Monster or victim? Lindsay Clancy’s jury couldn’t agree. Daphne Merkin recalls her own postpartum depression—and the intrusive thoughts she had of harming her baby

THE FILTH ESTATE

In his memoir, Legs McNeil recalls how three friends started PUNK magazine and found themselves—with the Ramones and Lou Reed—at the birth of a cultural revolution

Issue No. 373

September 5, 2026

WISH YOU WEREN’T HERE

Hollywood, pop music, politics, even A.I.—everything in American life is recycling the past. Have we run out of new ideas, or is the present simply too grim to bear?

ALL ABOUT EVE

Eve Babitz was the most beautiful and best-read woman in 1970s Los Angeles. One New York comedy writer recalls their brief fling—and the screenplays they wrote together

THE GREAT FALL OF CHINA

Hui Ka Yan rose from poverty to become Asia’s richest man. Then his $300 billion property empire collapsed, ruining millions—and fueling a global trade war

Issue No. 372

August 29, 2026

THE DEPORTED

ICE sent them “home” to a country they barely knew. Now America’s deportees are building a new life, finding one another—and fielding your customer-service calls—in a Mexico City neighborhood they’ve dubbed “Little L.A.”

BREAKING POINT

The U.S. Open has long brought out the worst in players, umpires, and spectators. Is it the New York heat? Late-season exhaustion? The booze? Grab your $23 Honey Deuce and buckle up!

SKIN IN THE GAME

When a Beverly Hills facialist—whose clients included Gwyneth Paltrow and Cameron Diaz—promised to cure Victoria Nelson’s acne, she ended up with acid burns and PTSD. Why did she go back?

Issue No. 371

August 22, 2026

THE SUSSEXES STRIKE BACK

Six years after Megxit, Harry and Meghan are bidding adieu to their jam-filled, sun-soaked life in Montecito and taking their family (and their cameras) back to Britain, where surely bygones will be bygones

GENERAL ELECTION

Gadi Eisenkot lost his son and two nephews in Israel’s war with Hamas. Now, as the Knesset elections loom, the former general is fighting to end Benjamin Netanyahu’s long, divisive reign

MENTOR OF DISCONTENT

Before there was Stephen Miller, there was Roy Cohn. James Wolcott reviews Kai Bird’s new biography of Trump’s original fixer, whose poisonous playbook shaped today’s politics

Issue No. 370

August 15, 2026

MOTHER RUSSIA

Tatyana Kim—a mother of seven and former teacher—built Russia’s Amazon and weathered her ex-husband’s armed assault on its headquarters, only to see Ukraine bomb her empire

DYING ONSTAGE

When Lenny Bruce was found guilty of obscenity in 1964, he became a free-speech martyr. Sixty years after his fatal overdose, his act would probably get him canceled

FLACKING HELL

Facing allegations of rape and human trafficking, Andrew and Tristan Tate hired Mateea Petrescu to win them positive press. Was this the worst P.R. job ever?

Issue No. 369

August 8, 2026

TALES FROM THE A.I.-POCALYPSE

In 2013, one computer scientist warned that creating superhuman A.I. would be “the last event in human history.” It took OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s models going rogue for people to start listening

CO-OP DE GRÂCE

After nearly 70 years, Harvard is shuttering Dudley Co-op, a progressive dorm with a Communist Manifesto mural and vegetarian meals. Is this about costs, or the latest sign of a nanny-state crackdown?

SAPPHIRE IN THE ROUGH

When Zendaya wore a gargantuan yellow-sapphire arachnid brooch on the Spider-Man red carpet, two historic jewelry houses rushed to claim credit. Now neither seems to know where it is

Issue No. 368

August 1, 2026

LET IT PLEAD

A year after confessing to the murder of four University of Idaho students, Bryan Kohberger is withdrawing his guilty plea. Howard Blum asks, Is this merely the opening salvo in a longer campaign for attention?

A TRAGIC PRECEDENT

Sixty years ago today, a University of Texas student committed the deadliest mass shooting in American history. Now, it barely cracks the Top 12—and its aftermath paints an alarming picture

SHVO BUSINESS

Michael Shvo’s rise from obnoxious rental broker to trophy-property titan has been marked by spectacular excesses and bitter feuds. Can he bounce back from losing his beloved Transamerica Pyramid?

Issue No. 367

July 25, 2026

DIVA-IN-LAW

Nicola Peltz’s ongoing feud with the Beckhams has already sidelined her acting career. That hasn’t stopped her from falling out with her publicist, her brother, and—most inexplicably—her dog-rescue group

THE PIKER PROBLEM

The controversial left-wing influencer Hasan Piker has been compared to Joe Rogan for his appeal to young male voters. But Piker’s zealous partisanship is the last thing Democrats need

TOWER OF BABBLE

On a Montauk ranch–cum–exhibition space, an art-world scion’s massive sculpture of stacked shipping containers has sparked a fight with town officials and enraged East End locals

Issue No. 366

July 18, 2026

SCENES FROM THE A.I.-POCALYPSE

In 2001: A Space Odyssey, an errant computer tries, and fails, to kill its human masters. Sixty years on, ChatGPT has a terrifying plan for how the HAL 9000 could have succeeded

VILLA OF THE VANITIES

Before Mar-a-Lago became a gilded seat of power, Silvio Berlusconi’s Sardinian pleasure palace set the template with statesmen, sex parties, Vladimir Putin, and even an artificial volcano

WRITE OF THE HUNTER

After decades spent as Washington’s wayward son, Hunter Biden is re-writing his story—and possibly his political future—one extremely chaotic Substack missive at a time

Issue No. 365

July 11, 2026

BARS TO BLING

How the art-world fraudster known as Anna Delvey transformed her infamy into a thriving personal brand, in spite of—and, in many cases, thanks to—the ankle monitor constantly strapped to her leg

LE PEN IN THE NECK

The far-right politician Marine Le Pen is running for president for the fourth time, even as her embezzlement conviction for robbing French taxpayers of millions remains on appeal. Sacré bleu!

SPARE US!

Prince Harry’s latest legal defeat, in a case against the Daily Mail, and chaotic family visit to the U.K. lay bare the missteps—and unresolved daddy issues—that continue to define his post-royal life

Issue No. 364

July 4, 2026

The View from Here

Introducing Air Mail’s Americana Issue! Featuring: a letter from our founding father and mother, Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley …

Celebrating 15 of America’s Artisans Keeping Their Generations-Old Crafts Alive, from Quilting to Basket-Weaving to Pottery-Making

The 15 artisans keeping America’s dying handicrafts alive …

The Length of Trump’s Fingers—Revealed!

The length of Trump’s fingers, finally revealed …

Issue No. 363

June 27, 2026

VINTAGE PROPAGANDA

The discovery of Stalin’s “lost” wine cellar was meant to reveal a never-before-seen treasure trove of the Soviet Union tyrant’s vintage Bordeaux. But a trip to Georgia uncovered a far murkier story

THE SOUND OF SILENCE

Once the nation’s most exclusive concert venue—hosting Duke Ellington and Prince—the White House East Room has become virtually devoid of music. The culprit? Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti … Don!

GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER?

As Harry and Meghan prepare to return to Britain with their children for the first time in four years, the House of Windsor is bracing for an especially awkward family reunion

Issue No. 362

June 20, 2026

READING BETWEEN THE LINES

In part two of his series on the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, Howard Blum reveals that investigators are reckoning with ransom notes, Bitcoin trails, and a grim possibility: that their best chance to save her was missed

RUSSKI BUSINESS

Sanctioned, poisoned, and still seemingly trusted by both Kyiv and the Kremlin, the billionaire oligarch Roman Abramovich has become Putin’s unlikely back channel to peace with Zelensky, reports Andrew Ryvkin

CARRY-ON CLIMBING

Jen Rubio built Away into a luggage sensation. Now, with yachts, museum donations, and invitations to the Met Gala and top fashion shows, she’s following the billionaire playbook into high society, says Ashley Baker

Issue No. 361

June 13, 2026

COUNTRY PURSUITS

Six Senses arrived in the Hudson Valley promising a bucolic wellness retreat. What it got instead was a years-long battle with locals over zoning, environmental laws, and the future of the region

THE WRITE STUFF

AIR MAIL’s Tom Wolfe literary prizes are back, celebrating the boldest new voices in fiction and reportage—and seeking books that turn a distinctly Wolfean eye to the current moment

POST AND CIRCUMSTANCE

Meghan Markle’s latest Montecito dispatch turns domestic bliss into lifestyle thirst traps, using idyllic family images to reinforce the carefully cultivated mythology of her post-royal life

Issue No. 360

June 6, 2026

THE GREAT BRITISH FLIP-FLOP

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi fled Trump for the calm of the Cotswolds—but their attempts to flip a $30 million farmhouse there have been beset by floods of sewage and planning battles

MATCH-MAKER

The FIFA World Cup is here, and if you don’t know who to support, AIR MAIL has identified the tribes most suited to your neuroses, from wellness empresses to downtown dowagers

TO LIVE AND DIE ONLINE

Hilde Helphenstein mocked the art world as “Jerry Gogosian.” But a series of mental-health struggles culminating in her death at just 40 suggest she had become trapped by her alter ego

Issue No. 359

May 30, 2026

VANISHING POINT

As the search for Nancy Guthrie stalls, Howard Blum reveals new details about the investigation—and points to a TV special that may have inadvertently set the plan for her abduction into motion

THE ART OF THE STEAL

Jho Low looted billions from Malaysia’s sovereign-wealth fund. Now reportedly in hiding under Chinese protection, he’s hoping to buy his freedom from Trump

THE DUKE OF HAZARD

“I feel the royal family will never let Andrew end up in court”: Andrew Lownie goes inside the ongoing investigation into the former prince, and the new allegations against him

Issue No. 358

May 23, 2026

THE ART OF MURDER

Since the New York gallerist Brent Sikkema was stabbed to death in Rio, his estranged husband has become the central figure in a lurid murder-for-hire trial—which just reached a verdict

REALITY BYTES

As Hollywood embraces A.I., a new generation of synthetic starlets —obedient, ageless, endlessly available—is reviving an ancient fantasy, and creating a modern nightmare for real women

MONEYBALLS

The founder of Beau D., a cheeky Malibu male-skin-care line known for its penis cream, is suing Brad Pitt’s luxury cosmetics behemoth, Beau Domaine, for trademark infringement

Issue No. 357

May 16, 2026

DEATH OF AN AMERICAN DREAM

Joshua Pack was a world leader in private equity. But when he and his family moved to a palatial London home, the cracks in his perfect life began to show, reports Ashley Baker

A LATE NIGHT TO REMEMBER

As Stephen Colbert’s run on The Late Show nears its end, America is losing not just a comedian but a reminder of what public decency sounds like, says David Kamp

THE FASHION WHISPERER

Edward Enninful transformed British Vogue into a cultural force. His next act—the media company EE72—is even more ambitious, as he reveals in an interview with Vassi Chamberlain

Issue No. 356

May 9, 2026

MORE FERGALICIOUS BY THE DAY

Evicted from Royal Lodge, trailed by Epstein questions, and reportedly weighing a tell-all interview, Sarah Ferguson, Andrew’s disgraced ex-wife, has nothing left to sell but herself

MONUMENTAL MISTAKES

With Donald Trump aiming to remake Washington in his own image—gaudy and vulgar—architecture critic Paul Goldberger takes stock of a capital turning into a vanity project

PUTIN ON A SHOW

Jude Law is Vladimir Putin! The Wizard of the Kremlin movie offers a portrait of Russian propaganda and authoritarian power that one former Kremlin propagandist finds chillingly accurate

Issue No. 355

May 2, 2026

THE LION IN WINTOUR

Anna Wintour turned a once modest costume benefit into a V.I.P. colossus. Now, with Bezos money, a new Met gallery, and succession whispers, fashion’s biggest night is facing its own redesign, writes William D. Cohan

THE TRIALS OF ELON

As Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI begins, his battle for the future of artificial intelligence looks less like a fight over safety than a campaign to control it—and inoculate it against the so-called woke mind virus

THE POD SQUAD

King Charles III’s recent visit to the U.S. introduced a new system for managing access to him: the pod. But what does it mean if you’re in the wrong one? Alyson Krueger reports from a Washington garden party and Manhattan gala

Issue No. 354

April 25, 2026

REASONABLE DOUBTS

The Chandra Levy murder transfixed Washington, ruined a congressman, convicted a killer—and then it all unraveled. Twenty-five years later, the mystery remains stranger than ever

POMP AND MAGA-STANCE

America’s 250th birthday was meant to celebrate the republic. But Trump has something more imperial in mind: race cars, cage fights, and his infamous “Arc de Trump”

BEHIND THE CROWN

Queen Elizabeth II spent her life being inscrutable. Four years after her death, a sharper, stranger, funnier monarch is beginning to come into view. Craig Brown investigates

Issue No. 353

April 18, 2026

PRESIDENT VS. POPE

When Trump picked a fight with Pope Leo this week, he underestimated Il Papa’s calm authority and massive popularity, not least with young American Catholics, says Carolina de Armas

ALL ABOUT LENA

In an interview, Lena Dunham revisits the chaos of her 20s—from the stratospheric fame of Girls to illness and addiction—while getting some jabs in at the toxic men who surrounded her

EPSTEIN’S POWER BROKER

Jeffrey Epstein’s glittering circle of scientists, writers, and Nobel laureates did not assemble itself. As Sam Kahn uncovers, the star literary agent John Brockman helped bring it together

Issue No. 352

April 11, 2026

READ ’EM AND WEEP

Prince Harry’s seven-year war with the tabloids has devolved into a High Court circus with the revelation of flirty Facebook messages between a tabloid journalist and “Mr Mischief” himself

THE IRONY DOME

Long before the current war, Israel and Iran were covert partners in a secret nuclear-missile program concocted behind Washington’s back. Elaine Sciolino revisits this unlikely alliance

BETTER CALL JUDA!

Juda Engelmayer is the crisis publicist who takes on figures so taboo (Harvey Weinstein! Sean “Diddy” Combs! Anna Delvey!) no one else will touch them. How does he sleep at night?

Issue No. 351

April 4, 2026

LICENSE TO STEAL

Two years after his suicide, the Swiss wealth manager Eric Freymond’s alleged web of deception has cost Ursula Andress, the original Bond girl, $22.5 million—and an Hermès heir counting billions in losses

BLOOD MONEY

When a Polymarket bettor made $553,000 predicting Ayatollah Khamenei’s death, outrage ensued—but profiting from disaster (whether betting on sieges or shipwrecks) is nothing new

PRE-WAR AND PEACE

Forget Billionaires’ Row—Manhattan’s high-end property market is shifting as buyers swap glossy new condos for historic co-ops that offer old-money cachet at half the price. Michael Gross investigates

Issue No. 350

March 28, 2026

TROUBLE IN PARADISE

William D. Cohan investigates a suspected act of vandalism on a controversial erosion-control project and the widening divide between Nantucket’s summer set and year-round locals

GIVE AND TAKE

In David Kamp and Joe McKendry’s Trumpian riff on Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, a guardrail gives everything to a greedy boy who grows into a greedier man with a “most peculiar skin color”

REINS OF TERROR!

First Netflix canceled Harry & Meghan. Then Meghan’s lifestyle show. Now the Sussexes are clawing their way back to the streamer—this time with a polo series no one asked for

Issue No. 349

March 21, 2026

KNIVES OUT

Chefs Liz Johnson and Will Aghajanian met at Noma, fell in love, and opened Horses, the buzzy L.A. restaurant, before allegations of emotional, physical, and feline abuse took them down. Now Aghajanian breaks his silence

SLIDING DOORS, PRINCE ANDREW EDITION

Former Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal imagines a world in which Charles died alongside Diana, and Andrew became King, dismissed his Epstein ties as deepfakes, and triggered Trump’s impeachment. (We don’t hate it!)

HANNAH MONTANA HAS A COLD

After Miley Cyrus refused to speak to her, Carolina de Armas sought out the pop star’s inner circle to talk about Hannah Montana, the Disney show that launched Cyrus to worldwide fame and is celebrating its 20th anniversary

Issue No. 348

March 14, 2026

HAMPTONS AGONISTES

An equestrienne heiress has plans to build a giant horse complex—manure pit included!—in tony Bridgehampton, and NIMBY locals are kicking up a stink, reports Ashley Baker

BATTLE CRY

Chris Terrio, the Oscar-winning Argo screenwriter, warns that any lessons that could have been learned from past Middle East conflicts have been ignored in Trump’s rush to war

DOWN WITH THE CROWN!

Jacob Furedi interviews the man responsible for the former Prince Andrew’s arrest—a fringe anti-royalist who has been trying to topple the British monarchy for decades