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Issue No. 71
November 21, 2020
House Arrest

Cazzie David confesses what it’s like to have a roommate (Larry David) who hates keys and has no regard for your personal safety

Fashion Victim

Mark Ellwood tracks the darkened runway at Moda Operandi

Collapsing Real Estate

Joseph Bullmore gleefully details how the mansions of London’s rich are falling down—thanks to their slightly insane multi-level basement add-ons

Issue No. 70
November 14, 2020
Sore Loser

Christopher Buckley imagines the concession speech Donald Trump might—might—give

Needle Park

Walter Isaacson details what it is like to be a guinea pig for a coronavirus vaccine—and why he decided to do it

Diana vs. Charles

As The Crown officially enters the Princess of Wales years, Hilary Rose recalls those little-known, all-too-painful early years of Diana’s marriage to Charles

Issue No. 69
November 7, 2020
Cancel Culture

The end of the Apprentice-in-Chief

The Firm

Megan Agnew gives a sneak peek inside the new season of The Crown, which features the arrival of Diana, Margaret Thatcher, and the real Queen’s annus horribilis

Depp Charge and Then Some

Stuart Heritage reports on the ruling in the sordid Johnny Depp–Amber Heard trial, where there are no real winners

Issue No. 68
October 31, 2020
What, We Worry?

Graydon Carter makes it easy for the supporters of Trump and his gang that can’t shoot straight

The Grifters

Before WeWork flushed $2 billion down the toilet, Adam Neumann financed a film starring his wife. Reeves Wiedeman uncovers the bizarre, unseen footage

BBC-U-Later?

Max Hastings questions why Boris Johnson wants to diminish the great British cultural institution that brought us Fleabag, Fawlty Towers, and Blue Planet

Issue No. 67
October 24, 2020
Media Meltdown

William D. Cohan asks how Rupert Murdoch and other Hollywood bigwigs got played by Shane Smith and Vice Media

Cashtaways

Laura Neilson reports on the newest indulgence of 1-percenters: riding out the pandemic by renting a private island

The Firm

Rachel Johnson reminds us what the Queen Mother can teach Meghan and Harry

Issue No. 66
October 17, 2020
Heavy-Handed Editing?

Sam Wasson catches up with novelist-provocateur Bruce Wagner, and hears why his new novel got canceled by the wokerati

Vice Squad

Hunter Biden gets Giuliani hot under the collar, but according to Shawn McCreesh, for the New York Cool Kids, he’s even hotter

Ina Garten of Eden

On AIR MAIL’s new podcast, Morning Meeting, the acclaimed chef and cookbook author discusses her favorite comfort food and more

Issue No. 65
October 10, 2020
Patient Zero

As the ’roid-raging, Super-Spreader-in-Chief returns to the Oval Office, Graydon Carter considers Donald Trump’s endgame

Keeping Up With the Sussexes

Stuart Heritage offers a speculative peek at the script for Harry and Meghan’s rumored reality show for Netflix

Power Play

In Italy, Mario Calvo-Platero catches up with Gianni Agnelli’s grandson John Elkann, as he seeks to build a 21st-century publishing empire

Issue No. 64
October 3, 2020
The Peasants are Revolting

Alexandra Marshall visits the Royalist-loving, not-to-be-believed French theme park that’s a cross between Disneyland and a Feydeau farce

She Puts the Court in Royal Court

Stuart Heritage offers a look into Meghan Markle’s legal strategy as she goes into the messy part of her London libel trial

Willkommen and Bienvenue

Elena Clavarino reports from Europe, where New York’s young elite dodge the travel ban to live (and party) like it’s 1929

Issue No. 63
September 26, 2020
Not Ready for Prime Time

David Cameron’s cheesy habits. Boris Johnson’s loneliness. Rachel Johnson examines the blast radius from the tell-all rocking U.K. politics

Suits Meets Sussexession?

Meghan Markle fires Johnny Depp’s lawyer and hires J. K. Rowling’s, as she prepares for round two of her defamation suit

Je T’aime … Moi, Non Plus

Why do the French now see Serge Gainsbourg as their own Harvey Weinstein?

Issue No. 62
September 19, 2020
C.S.I.: Hollywood

On the 30th anniversary of Goodfellas, Douglas McGrath sees just what Nick Pileggi will finally cop to about the making of the classic

The Awful Truth

David Kaufman reveals the dark side of social influencers and their shadowy role in international money-laundering

Bedfellows and Broomsticks

Stuart Heritage asks what will happen to the politician’s wife who aired the prime minister’s dirty laundry

Issue No. 61
September 12, 2020
Combat Experience

Sheila Weller asks Shoshana Johnson, the first Black female P.O.W. in U.S. history, what Trump can learn about duty and sacrifice

Blueprint for Humanity

Craig Brown imagines just what the thinking could be behind Meghan and Harry’s blockbuster Netflix deal

Hot and Heavy

Hannah Evans reveals how talking dirty on the telephone has become the new sexting

Issue No. 60
September 5, 2020
Trümplandia, The Sequel

Richard M. Cohen imagines how a post-election Trump coup would unfold

Thy Minister’s Wife

George Kalogerakis examines the swinging, sexual-healing ministry of Jerry Falwell Jr. and his frisky better half, Becki

She Persisted—and Won!

Sheila Weller meets the Erin Brockovich of East Africa

Issue No. 59
August 29, 2020
Hollywood Babylon and Gone

Richard Rushfield asks just how Charlotte Kirk, a 28-year-old C-list actress, has brought down some of the town’s most powerful men

“Megsplaining” for Dummies

Craig Brown translates Meghan Markle’s unique talent for issuing toothless verities in a virtuous tone

“Bunga Bunga” Redux

Joseph Bullmore wonders just how it is that Italy’s former prime minister and forever womanizer Silvio Berlusconi may be poised to retake power

Issue No. 58
August 22, 2020
Hotel California

Stuart Heritage looks at the troubling past of Meghan and Harry’s $14 million money pit (complete with stripper pole?), bought from a shady Russian oligarch

Cheers?

Laura Neilson takes a gimlet-eyed look at a sobering trend: the rise in alcohol-free “drinking”

Hard Times

In Part II, Eric Spitznagel shows how Ron Jeremy’s dreams of Hollywood stardom dissolved and he joined the 1970s porn scene

Issue No. 57
August 15, 2020
#MeToo, Part Two

Ash Carter sits down with Leon Wieseltier as he prepares his comeback in magazines—and answers his accusers

Too Fast, Many Furious

Joseph Bullmore reveals how an heir to the Red Bull fortune has avoided murder charges. Until now

Breeding Discontent

David Kaufman explains why Anderson Cooper, Elton John, and other gay dads create anxiety among like-minded men

Issue No. 56
August 8, 2020
Another Juan Bites the Dust

Joseph Bullmore recounts the corrupt and depraved reign—and fall—of Spain’s King Juan Carlos

Suits and Scandal

Stuart Heritage reveals why an ex-girlfriend of Prince Andrew’s is suing Barclays for $2 billion

What Lies Beneath

Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger on the Scandi mystery of the young female reporter and the eccentric Danish inventor

Issue No. 55
August 1, 2020
Epstein

Vassi Chamberlain reveals the rarely seen side of her sometimes friend, Ghislaine Maxwell

Days of Whine and Roses

Stuart Heritage on Meghan and Harry’s latest salvos against his family

Italians, Doing It Better

Elena Clavarino dishes on Italy’s super-chic, super-secretive, and super-low-key seaside retreat

Issue No. 54
July 25, 2020
Viral Thinking

Bernard-Henri Lévy takes on the pandemic appeasers

Off the Depp End

Stuart Heritage recaps this summer’s most twisted soap opera: the Johnny Depp–Amber Heard trial unfolding in London

Counting His Marbles

Henry Alford reveals a new “very hard” cognitive test Trump might “ace”

Issue No. 53
July 18, 2020
The 153

Ash Carter connects with Thomas Chatterton Williams on the subject of the Harper’s letter

Odd Bedfellows

Rosie Kinchen explains just what Bill Clinton got out of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

Hands-On Intel

Sheila Weller reveals what Prince Andrew’s massage therapist witnessed on Jeffrey Epstein’s secretive island

Issue No. 52
July 11, 2020
Epstein’s Enabler

Ben Macintyre explains how Ghislaine Maxwell went from charming schoolgirl to devilish madam

Dangerous Liaisons

Mark Bowden asks whether Truman Capote had a deeper attraction to the In Cold Blood killers

Acquired Tastes

Errol Morris serves up a tasty tale about one of his favorite pleasures: hot-dog lasagna

Issue No. 51
July 4, 2020
California Scheming

Stuart Heritage looks at Harry and Meghan’s new life Hollywood. Did someone say, “Fresh prince of Bel Air”?

Criminal Mind

Edward Jay Epstein recounts a very, very strange afternoon tea with Jeffrey Epstein (no relation)

Social Influencer

Amelia Lester spins the twisted tale of the grifter to the Goopsters

Issue No. 50
June 27, 2020
Cold Warrior

Ravi Somaiya reveals how white nationalists may have assassinated a beloved U.N. secretary-general

Monster Mash

Phoebe Eaton asks just what motivated Georgina Chapman to marry Harvey Weinstein

The Upper Hand

Hannah Seligson looks at why New York’s wealthiest are now at the mercy of their staff

Issue No. 49
June 20, 2020
Cain and Enabled

In Part II of her Harvey Weinstein investigation, Phoebe Eaton asks what role his brother played in his rise—and demise

Monuments Men

Douglas McGrath argues for a reset in how we name our military installations and remember racist generals

William and Kate

Vassi Chamberlain reveals why the British press are wrong about the Duchess of Cambridge’s family

Issue No. 48
June 13, 2020
criminal minds

We know what Harvey Weinstein did. But Phoebe Eaton says the real question is why he committed those horrible acts

Tall in the Saddle

Katie Nodjimbadem rides with black cowboys honoring George Floyd

Thought Leader

William D. Cohan talks to Scott Galloway, the new king of all media

Issue No. 47
June 6, 2020
That was the week that was

Graydon Carter asks if a single image can sum up this moment in the American saga

Bearing witness

Artists across the U.S. react to George Floyd’s killing

Ice Capades

The cunning $4.5 million London jewel heist that channeled Ocean’s 11

Issue No. 46
May 30, 2020
Vlad to Worse

As the coronavirus ravages Russia, Putin the germophobe cowers in his palace

Royal Deadbeat

For a broke Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein was the lender of last resort

A New Way Forward?

The AIR MAIL/Shreeji newsstand in London is a breath of fresh air

Issue No. 45
May 23, 2020
Working Stiff

How “work from home” snuffs out sex between co-workers

From FOMO to FOGO

Polly Vernon says the end of lockdown brings the return of one of the most dreaded parts of modern life

Class Wars

When elite schools run up against parents who don’t want to pay $50,000 for Zoom Academy

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