December 5, 2020 – Air Mail

Trump Agonistes

It’s not Paraguay, but as Graydon Carter explains, Florida will have to do for the last chapter of the departing president’s tawdry saga …

Scandal

Joseph Bullmore details the sordid tale of the American tech guru and multi-millionaire jailed in Spain. Why do U.S. authorities want him extradited?

Mean Girls

Shawn McCreesh explains why women in Trump’s world like to betray each other—and how they find justification in Bill Clinton (naturally) …

Eton Mess

Stuart Heritage detangles the furor consuming two great schools. Some students are, not surprisingly, upset. But in a different way …

Global Crime Blotter

George Kalogerakis tracks Ghislaine’s diet regimen, Harvey’s exes’ revenge, and the fall of two British titles …

Comfort and Joy

Admit it—he’s not alone. Veteran Washington reporter Carl Hulse confesses his addiction to, yes, Hallmark Christmas movies …

Issue No. 73

The View from Here Trump, his enablers, and his Florida bolt-hole all have dark precedents

By Graydon Carter

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The Politics of Bad Behavior Melania, Ivanka, and the double standards of the single-minded

By Shawn McCreesh

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Groucho’s Dinner with T. S. Eliot

Comedy meets tragedy over roast beef in London

By Sam Kashner

Illustration by Ed Sorel

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The Restless Traveler

Lockdown won’t last forever. When the world opens back up, the most discerning globe-trotters will be prepared. No harm in joining them …

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Photo: Paramount/Getty Images (Redford and Sparv)

Battle of the Sexists Arguments over free speech dominate at Eton and Cambridge

By Stuart Heritage

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Schlock and Awe Confessions of a male Hallmark-Christmas-movie addict

By Carl Hulse

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Psst! A Special Roundup of Scandal and Crime From The Orgasm Cult to Ghislaine Maxwell’s travails, we’ve got it all

By George Kalogerakis

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“Oh, look—they’re retiring the word ‘unprecedented.’”

Crystal Clearing London private-equity bigwigs are enlisting crystal healers to tell their wives they want a divorce—and paying them hefty sums to do it

By Carol Woolton

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The Earrings Jessie Thomas London-based jeweler Jessie Thomas makes each piece of precious and semi-precious jewelry in her collection by hand…

The Blouse & Other Stories and Julie Brøgger On Thursday, Danish designer Julie Brøgger unveiled a capsule collection for & Other Stories,…

The Jewelry Box Silvia Furmanovich Even the woman who has everything won’t have a jewelry box quite like this. Silvia Furmanovich, a jewelry designer based…

The Sweater Tombolo One of the hazards of living in the West Village: the temptations in the Tombolo boutique’s windows, along Bleecker Street.…

The Earrings Jessie Thomas London-based jeweler Jessie Thomas makes each piece of precious and semi-precious jewelry in her collection by hand…

The Blouse & Other Stories and Julie Brøgger On Thursday, Danish designer Julie Brøgger unveiled a capsule collection for & Other Stories,…

The Jewelry Box Silvia Furmanovich Even the woman who has everything won’t have a jewelry box quite like this. Silvia Furmanovich, a jewelry designer based…

The Sweater Tombolo One of the hazards of living in the West Village: the temptations in the Tombolo boutique’s windows, along Bleecker Street.…

How Does It End for Trump? Graydon Carter discusses what awaits the grifter-in-chief

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Jean-Luc Godard at 90 The New Wave director pokes the artificial veil of Instagram

By Greer Sinclair

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A Tech Tycoon’s Prison Tweets Before the anti-virus-software guru John McAfee died in prison in Spain, he was a social media animal

By Joseph Bullmore

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“Nope! I’m old, fat, and male—I wouldn’t stand a chance out there.”

Among the masterpieces moving from Buckingham Palace to the Queen’s Gallery for one year are Cristofano Allori’s Judith with the Head of Holofernes, a painting of “a gory subject with not a drop of blood in sight,” says curator Isabella Manning.

When we’ve become familiar with the great works in a museum space, we tend to be blasé—that Rembrandt (or Renoir, or Rousseau) is always there; I’ll study it next time. But pop the painting into a new context and suddenly it’s new, too. With renovation work to be done in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace, the 65 masterpieces that call that space home have moved to the Queen’s Gallery, where they will stay for just over a year. READ ON

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Hands On! Chanel’s Métiers d’Art show—attended by only one person—showcased the house’s artistry

By Suzy Menkes

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Luis Gerardo Mendez The actor made it big in Mexico. Now he’s bringing diversity and humor to Hollywood

By Elena Clavarino

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The Populist and His Flock The rise and fall of Father Coughlin, the Depression-era version of the departing president

By Wallace Stegner

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Hypnotized by Chess Beth Harmon’s doe-eyed gaze reflects centuries of chess in art history

By Waldemar Januszczak

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Crazy Rich Aviation Travelers in Asia are avoiding quarantine and indulging wanderlust by booking round-trip flights to nowhere

By Scott Murphy

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Sing Digital Shower Radio When I was a tween, my mother gave me a shower radio. It was a tiny, hot-pink plastic cube, and it blasted Z100 from low-quality…

Paste C.A.B. and Wallshoppe Wallpaper used to be a serious commitment. Now, thanks to Wallshoppe’s removable peel-and-stick panels,…

Peep Air Nostalgie The line “People used to dress up on planes” has become an Internet trope—a metonym for the out-of-touch cultural critic…

Watch Let Them All Talk It’s tempting to sum it up as The Golden Girls meets The Group. Meryl Streep is deeply funny as a highly mannered writer…

Sing Digital Shower Radio When I was a tween, my mother gave me a shower radio. It was a tiny, hot-pink plastic cube, and it blasted Z100 from low-quality…

Paste C.A.B. and Wallshoppe Wallpaper used to be a serious commitment. Now, thanks to Wallshoppe’s removable peel-and-stick panels,…

Peep Air Nostalgie The line “People used to dress up on planes” has become an Internet trope—a metonym for the out-of-touch cultural critic…

Watch Let Them All Talk It’s tempting to sum it up as The Golden Girls meets The Group. Meryl Streep is deeply funny as a highly mannered writer…

Elliott Erwitt’s Paris Photographs capture the romance of the City of Lights but also the whimsy of life on its streets

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The comings and goings of the Louvre, 1989.

At the theater, 1952, and on the road, 1956.

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Mark Athitakis On

1957: The Year That Launched the American Future

by Eric Burns

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Richard Zoglin On

The Search for John Lennon: The Life, Loves, and Death of a Rock Star

by Lesley-Ann Jones

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Coyote Ugly Among the stars of animation’s golden age—Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig—Wile E. Coyote is the most relatable of the bunch

By Reid Mitenbuler

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Isa Stoppi She was Italy’s first great model. Richard Avedon called her “the most beautiful woman in the world”

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Gone but not forgotten: *The Statue of Liberty Takers,* included in *Ralph Steadman: A Life in Ink,* published this month by Chronicle Chroma. “To finish on a high note,” writes the artist in the book’s conclusion, “I think we are all seriously doomed.”

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The View from Here Trump, his enablers, and his Florida bolt-hole all have dark precedents

The Politics of Bad Behavior Melania, Ivanka, and the double standards of the single-minded

Comedy meets tragedy over roast beef in London

Lockdown won’t last forever. When the world opens back up, the most discerning globe-trotters will be prepared. No harm in joining them …

Battle of the Sexists Arguments over free speech dominate at Eton and Cambridge

Schlock and Awe Confessions of a male Hallmark-Christmas-movie addict

Psst! A Special Roundup of Scandal and Crime From The Orgasm Cult to Ghislaine Maxwell’s travails, we’ve got it all

Crystal Clearing London private-equity bigwigs are enlisting crystal healers to tell their wives they want a divorce—and paying them hefty sums to do it

How Does It End for Trump? Graydon Carter discusses what awaits the grifter-in-chief

Jean-Luc Godard at 90 The New Wave director pokes the artificial veil of Instagram

A Tech Tycoon’s Prison Tweets Before the anti-virus-software guru John McAfee died in prison in Spain, he was a social media animal

Hands On! Chanel’s Métiers d’Art show—attended by only one person—showcased the house’s artistry

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Luis Gerardo Mendez The actor made it big in Mexico. Now he’s bringing diversity and humor to Hollywood

The Populist and His Flock The rise and fall of Father Coughlin, the Depression-era version of the departing president

Hypnotized by Chess Beth Harmon’s doe-eyed gaze reflects centuries of chess in art history

Crazy Rich Aviation Travelers in Asia are avoiding quarantine and indulging wanderlust by booking round-trip flights to nowhere

Elliott Erwitt’s Paris Photographs capture the romance of the City of Lights but also the whimsy of life on its streets

Coyote Ugly Among the stars of animation’s golden age—Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig—Wile E. Coyote is the most relatable of the bunch

Isa Stoppi She was Italy’s first great model. Richard Avedon called her “the most beautiful woman in the world”

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