December 31, 2022

Nuclear Winter

From the bunker, Rebecca John explores the safeguards that are in place to prevent a president—especially one with short fingers—from pushing the big red button …

Facing the Music

From the living room, Tim Page explains why you should be ringing in the New Year with Bach …

Your Loss is Their Gain

From Turkey, Max Berlinger reports on a new trend among balding men—traveling to Istanbul for hair transplants—and the cottage industry taking root there …

Behind Closed Doors

From London, Seth Alexander Thévoz reveals the secret life of the city’s private members’ clubs …

All Shaken Up

From the bar at the Dukes hotel, Paul Feig reveals the keys to making a good martini …

Inspector Gadget

From the Air Mail test lab, our tech-and-gear expert, Jonathan Margolis, disappears into the Framery One, a work pod for the home office, and hymns his favorite gramophone. (Yes, they still exist!) …

Table For Two, Please

AIR MAIL’s new podcast sees Bruce Bozzi quizzing Andy Cohen on the time James Corden stole his set …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE! …

How a Chicago couple put British wine on the map … Luke Millington-Drake’s caricatures conquer TikTok … the perks of travel writing … David Downton’s letter from Venice …the shoemaking capital of England … pour one out for the Disney dead … Flaming June rises from the ashes …

Issue No. 181

The View from Here Being a travel writer means spreading envy for all to see

By Eric Hanson

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100 Seconds to Midnight With Putin rattling his nuclear saber and Trump back on the campaign trail, even battle-hardened generals are gripped with atomic anxiety

By Rebecca John

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Paul Feig Knows a Good Martini The filmmaker behind Freaks and Geeks and Bridesmaids has re-invented himself as a cocktail connoisseur with a viral pandemic-drink-tutorial series, his own brand of gin, and, now, a book

By Jim Kelly

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Reality Check A lunch with Andy Cohen leads to revelations about James Corden, the late-night-television orthodoxy, and much more in our new podcast, Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi

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A Better You

On the heels of a nonstop holiday season, the New Year presents a clean plate for your body and mind. Here, choose from a wealth of wellness tools designed to make you feel your best—both inside and out—in 2023

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My Favorite Things Kyle Hotchkiss Carone, the restaurateur behind New York’s American Bar, the revived Lambs Club, and, most recently, Holiday Bar, shares his must-haves, from crystal glassware to the vintage cookbook that inspires him most

By Kyle Hotchkiss Carone

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Peace in a Pod Work in private, in public! The most efficient turntable setup around! Cross your palm with silver! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

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The Brotherhood of the Bloody Heads A growing number of men are taking solo trips to Turkey—and returning with a lot more hair

By Max Berlinger

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A Furshlugginer Great Boss The life of William M. Gaines, Mad magazine’s unmistakable publisher, was as large as the man himself

By John Ficarra

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It’s a Smaller World Those we lost in 2022—a special Disney remembrance

By John Ficarra

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Lighter than Air Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 short, “The Red Balloon,” is high art for all ages

By Sam Kashner and Harper Simon

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Sparkle Chanel No New Year’s Eve is complete without some glitz and glitter. Who better to turn to for the season’s de rigueur sparkling accent than…

Moisturize Flamingo Estate Flamingo Estate may have its roots in the hills of Los Angeles, but this season, the wellness brand is extending its botanical bounty…

Visit The Alpina Gstaad The Swiss do just about everything well, and hospitality and après-ski are certainly at the top of that list. With a near one-to-one ratio…

Read The Discovery of Pasta Italians have been eating pasta since the Middle Ages, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t improved on it…

Shop RLT Calling all Los Angelenos (or those headed there at some point in 2023): there’s a new shop in town that’s worthy of a visit…

Drink Aime In an attempt to repent for holiday overconsumption of things not generally recommended by one’s doctor, we are trading…

Sparkle Chanel No New Year’s Eve is complete without some glitz and glitter. Who better to turn to for the season’s de rigueur sparkling accent than…

Moisturize Flamingo Estate Flamingo Estate may have its roots in the hills of Los Angeles, but this season, the wellness brand is extending its botanical bounty…

Visit The Alpina Gstaad The Swiss do just about everything well, and hospitality and après-ski are certainly at the top of that list. With a near one-to-one ratio…

Read The Discovery of Pasta Italians have been eating pasta since the Middle Ages, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t improved on it…

Shop RLT Calling all Los Angelenos (or those headed there at some point in 2023): there’s a new shop in town that’s worthy of a visit…

Drink Aime In an attempt to repent for holiday overconsumption of things not generally recommended by one’s doctor, we are trading…

King Cobbler Handcrafted boots, derbies—and sneakers!—from England’s shoemaking capital

By Spike Carter

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Paul Feig Raises a Glass to 2023 The comedy mastermind stops by Morning Meeting this week to discuss the art of mixology

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We’ll Always Have Venice After all these years, the Gritti Palace still exerts its pull over the beau monde. But why?

By David Downton

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“If they don’t like the food, try to explain to them how hard it is to cook really good food.”

Terroir Incognita How a plucky couple from Chicago put England on the wine-making map

By George Pendle

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Ingmar Bergman often set his films, such as his 1957 drama Wild Strawberries, starring Bibi Andersson, to Bach’s music. We suggest setting your New Year’s Eve to it, too, with the annual WKCR Bach Festival.

From Bach to Bergman and Back Again

The turn of the year is an ambiguous occasion. Underlying all the celebrations and resolutions is the stark acknowledgment that we now have 365 fewer days to live on this planet than we did the last time we were here. The Latin maxim Carpe diem still motivates us, but in continuing to do our best to “seize the day,” it also seems increasingly important to use those days wisely and tenderly—and to be grateful. READ ON

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The Return of Flaming June Once derided as an eyesore, Victorian painting is roaring back on both sides of the Atlantic

By Patrick Monahan

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“It’s not you, it’s me. Well, me and Cthulhu.”

Luke Millington-Drake While the British actor is best known for his Keira Knightley parodies on TikTok, his TV career is taking off

By David Christopher Kaufman

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A Bigger Splash More than 300 images, from paintings to oceanographic maps, collected in a new coffee-table book, provide a multifaceted look at oceans and the marine world

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Iris van Herpen’s 2019 sculpture *Sensory Seas,* included in the new book *Ocean: Exploring the Marine World.*

*Top,* *The Reward* (2018), by Scott Harrison; *above,* *Rivals* (2016), by Rachael Talibart.

*Polypus levis,* from Carl Chun’s 1910 book, *Die Cephalopoden.*

*Top,* *Father and Son, Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea* (2013), by David Doubilet; *above, Trachyphyllia,* from the 2016 “Coral Colors” film by NNtonio Rod (Antonio Rodríguez Canto).

The “Medusa” entry from 1791’s *Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois regnes de la nature,* by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jean Guillaume Bruguière, and Robert Bénard.

*Top,* *Rubicon,* an installation by Jason deCaires Taylor placed in the Atlantic Ocean; *above,* Tan Zi Xi’s work *Plastic Ocean.* Both works date from 2016.

A page from Georg Wolfgang Knorr’s *Deliciae Naturae Selectae,* 1751–67.

*Top,* Katsushika Hokusai’s *Under the Wave off Kanagawa (*or The Great Wave), circa 1830–32; *above,* Hasegawa Settan or Tsukioka Settei, *Whales and Whale Oil,* 1829.

“Well, well, well … if it isn’t Farfalle the show-off.”

John Walsh On

Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members’ Clubs

by Seth Alexander Thévoz

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Jason Guriel On

This Afterlife: Selected Poems

by A. E. Stallings

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Lil Buck

The performer and entrepreneur answers 60 of life’s most pressing questions

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The View from Here Being a travel writer means spreading envy for all to see

100 Seconds to Midnight With Putin rattling his nuclear saber and Trump back on the campaign trail, even battle-hardened generals are gripped with atomic anxiety

Paul Feig Knows a Good Martini The filmmaker behind Freaks and Geeks and Bridesmaids has re-invented himself as a cocktail connoisseur with a viral pandemic-drink-tutorial series, his own brand of gin, and, now, a book

Reality Check A lunch with Andy Cohen leads to revelations about James Corden, the late-night-television orthodoxy, and much more in our new podcast, Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi

On the heels of a nonstop holiday season, the New Year presents a clean plate for your body and mind. Here, choose from a wealth of wellness tools designed to make you feel your best—both inside and out—in 2023

My Favorite Things Kyle Hotchkiss Carone, the restaurateur behind New York’s American Bar, the revived Lambs Club, and, most recently, Holiday Bar, shares his must-haves, from crystal glassware to the vintage cookbook that inspires him most

Peace in a Pod Work in private, in public! The most efficient turntable setup around! Cross your palm with silver! And more …

The Brotherhood of the Bloody Heads A growing number of men are taking solo trips to Turkey—and returning with a lot more hair

A Furshlugginer Great Boss The life of William M. Gaines, Mad magazine’s unmistakable publisher, was as large as the man himself

It’s a Smaller World Those we lost in 2022—a special Disney remembrance

Lighter than Air Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 short, “The Red Balloon,” is high art for all ages

King Cobbler Handcrafted boots, derbies—and sneakers!—from England’s shoemaking capital

Paul Feig Raises a Glass to 2023 The comedy mastermind stops by Morning Meeting this week to discuss the art of mixology

We’ll Always Have Venice After all these years, the Gritti Palace still exerts its pull over the beau monde. But why?

Terroir Incognita How a plucky couple from Chicago put England on the wine-making map

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The Return of Flaming June Once derided as an eyesore, Victorian painting is roaring back on both sides of the Atlantic

Luke Millington-Drake While the British actor is best known for his Keira Knightley parodies on TikTok, his TV career is taking off

A Bigger Splash More than 300 images, from paintings to oceanographic maps, collected in a new coffee-table book, provide a multifaceted look at oceans and the marine world

The performer and entrepreneur answers 60 of life’s most pressing questions

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