August 13, 2022 – Air Mail

All’s Not Quiet on the Eastern Front

From Moscow, Katya V. reveals the stark realities of life inside Russia, six months after Putin invaded Ukraine …

That Sinking Feeling

In the second part of his riveting tale, Rich Cohen retraces what happened the night “murder boy” took his mother out into the dark Atlantic—and the fatal error that let prosecutors nab him …

Search and Rescue

One year after United States military forces abruptly left Afghanistan, Lisa Wolfe shares the dramatic efforts to save young girls left behind by the American government …

What’s Yours Is Mine!

From Greenwich, Connecticut, William D. Cohan digs into the twisted tale of a greedy hedge-fund founder who now stands accused of taking millions of dollars from his partners …

Inspector Gadget

Jonathan Margolis, our tech-and-gear columnist, discovers headphones that deliver extraordinary sound, plus a solution to streaming anywhere …

Kids Say The Darndest #*@%-ing Things!

From her couch, Jill Kargman sings the praises of South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s glorious, foulmouthed masterpiece of satire, as it notches its 25th anniversary …

There Goes the Neighborhood …

From the U.K., Stuart Heritage details the eyebrow-raising home purchase of Prince Andrew’s ex-wife, Fergie …

Issue No. 161

The View from There Writing pro-war poetry for money is one way to survive in Putin’s Russia

By Katya V.

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Poor Little Rich Boy What do you do if you make only $40 million a year? If you’re the founder of a Greenwich, Connecticut, hedge fund, you allegedly steal from your partners and shortchange investors

By William D. Cohan

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A Great Escape It was difficult enough to smuggle girls who had been abandoned by the U.S. out of Afghanistan. Harder still to do it twice

By Lisa Wolfe

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The Many Mysteries of Murder Boy, Part II His grandfather had an estate worth nearly $40 million. When his mother died, he stood to inherit millions. Did Nathan Carman kill them both?

By Rich Cohen

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Southern Gothic

From Charleston’s Battery to New Orleans’s Garden District, AIR SUPPLY takes a trip below the Mason-Dixon Line to soak up the region’s more charming fashion and entertaining cues

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Photo: Twentieth Century Fox/Photofest (Newman and Woodward)

My Favorite Things As a former Vogue editor and one of the co-founders of La Ligne, Meredith Melling has mastered French-girl style. Her trick? She sticks to one timeless wardrobe stable—stripes. Herewith, she shares her top picks

By Meredith Melling

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Photo: Jason McDonald (Melling)

Child’s Play For the past 25 years, South Park has been an equal-opportunity offender. One writer can’t get enough

By Jill Kargman

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Landing Gear An automated terrarium for even the most hopeless of plant-lovers; a streaming device that’s built to move; a power adapter big enough for an army (and 200 countries); and more

By Jonathan Margolis

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Dirty Rotten Royals Where did previously “penniless” Sarah Ferguson get $6.1 million to buy a bougie Mayfair town house?

By Stuart Heritage

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“I’ll kiss him after the flies are under control.” — “I’ll kiss him *after* the flies are under control.”

Nostalgia—It’s on the Menu In Los Angeles, martinis and wedge salads at Old Hollywood hot spots have replaced juice cleanses and vegan grain bowls

By Max Berlinger

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Listen Video Archives In the early 1980s, a decade before Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary co-wrote Pulp Fiction, the two met working at Video Archives…

Wear Mille We wish we could give silk blouses more of our attention. We really do. Unfortunately, they are so high-maintenance that they must…

Sparkle Cece Jewellery When Cece Fein Hughes inherited a 1920s Art Deco ring from her grandmother, she set off to learn everything she could…

Claudine Pascal is played by Lily Frazer in “Hotel Portofino.”

Watch Hotel Portofino It seems like everyone is summering in Italy at the moment. But there’s no need to brave air travel now that Matt Baker’s Hotel Portofino…

Wear Love Brand & Co. Did James Bond’s (Daniel Craig) rising from the ocean in Casino Royale (2006), wearing a pair of thigh-hugging sky-blue trunks…

Eat Librae Bakery Earlier this summer, Andre Gerschel and Dona Murad opened a bakery in NoHo that takes “ingredients that are very Middle Eastern…

Listen Video Archives In the early 1980s, a decade before Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary co-wrote Pulp Fiction, the two met working at Video Archives…

Wear Mille We wish we could give silk blouses more of our attention. We really do. Unfortunately, they are so high-maintenance that they must…

Sparkle Cece Jewellery When Cece Fein Hughes inherited a 1920s Art Deco ring from her grandmother, she set off to learn everything she could…

Watch Hotel Portofino It seems like everyone is summering in Italy at the moment. But there’s no need to brave air travel now that Matt Baker’s Hotel Portofino…

Wear Love Brand & Co. Did James Bond’s (Daniel Craig) rising from the ocean in Casino Royale (2006), wearing a pair of thigh-hugging sky-blue trunks…

Eat Librae Bakery Earlier this summer, Andre Gerschel and Dona Murad opened a bakery in NoHo that takes “ingredients that are very Middle Eastern…

Two More Prince Andrew Dramas And other strange news about these curious days …

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“Go left. I forgot to get a lid for my coffee.”

“An extremely capacious handbag” is how Sir Roy Strong, former director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, described the London museum’s holdings. “City of Gold” is the nickname for Pforzheim, Germany, home of the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, the first public museum dedicated exclusively to jewelry. And the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD) is in Paris, the city that waggish James Thurber deemed “a post-graduate course in Everything” and Ernest Hemingway called “a moveable feast.” For jewelry-besotted travelers heeding the call to culture, this trinity—the world’s three greatest permanent jewelry collections—offers a curated sanctuary of gems. READ ON

Top, an Art Nouveau tiara designed by René Lalique in 1903, on view at Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, in Germany; above, a Chaumet wheat-sheaf tiara designed in 1811 for Napoleon’s second wife, on view at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Read On

James Shalom The art dealer turned founder of clothing company Salie 66 on what it takes to make a new fashion concept stand out

By Chris Black

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A Big Show for a Big Week Welcome to our 100th episode

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Bunker Down A no-go zone during the Cold War, Sazan Island has become an outpost for the European avant-garde

By Scott Anthony

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Floral Tribute A dazzling new coffee-table book explores the flower in contemporary photography

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*Vanda* (from the series “Plastic Ocean”), photographed by Thirza Schaap in 2020.

Abelardo Morell, *Flowers for Lisa #30,* 2016.

Miriam Tölke, *Flower of Yesterday,* 2019.

Nadirah Zakariya, *All Purpose Flower: MCO Day 59,* 2020.

Robert Walker, *Montréal Botanique #43,* 2009.

Aimée Hoving, *Het Boeket A* (from the series “Pictures of Her”), 2017. (Flowers by Brigitte Grentis Van dam Merret.)

Habiba Nowrose, *Concealed,* 2014–18. “As women we are often compelled to portray our beautiful selves,” says the photographer. “In that path to avail beauty we are made to strip off our individuality, stories, and traumas. Eventually we lose ourselves and become one with that fabricated image. We become anonymous even to ourselves and our identities remain concealed.”

Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, *Untitled* (from the series “Musclemen”), 2012.

Helene Schmitz, *Nepentes lowii* (from the series “Carnivores”), 2010.

Tomoko Yoneda, *Chrysenthemums* (from the series “Cumulus”), 2011.

Ruud van Empel, *Floresta Negra #1,* 2018.

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Nathan King On

Elizabeth Finch

by Julian Barnes

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Adam Kirsch On

Fathers and Children

by Ivan Turgenev,
translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater
and Maya Slater

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Crimes of the Mind How a journalist turned screenwriter stumbled onto the unbelievable but true story that became Rogue Agent

By Michael Bronner

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Save This Masterpiece from the Tech Bros In California, a rare Frank Lloyd Wright home is on the market

By Ashley Baker

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Ulla Johnson

The fashion designer answers 59 of life’s most pressing questions

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On a hot summer day in London, a school group headed off on a trip from Waterloo Station, and the race for Tory leader was whittled down to two.

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The View from There Writing pro-war poetry for money is one way to survive in Putin’s Russia

Poor Little Rich Boy What do you do if you make only $40 million a year? If you’re the founder of a Greenwich, Connecticut, hedge fund, you allegedly steal from your partners and shortchange investors

A Great Escape It was difficult enough to smuggle girls who had been abandoned by the U.S. out of Afghanistan. Harder still to do it twice

The Many Mysteries of Murder Boy, Part II His grandfather had an estate worth nearly $40 million. When his mother died, he stood to inherit millions. Did Nathan Carman kill them both?

From Charleston’s Battery to New Orleans’s Garden District, AIR SUPPLY takes a trip below the Mason-Dixon Line to soak up the region’s more charming fashion and entertaining cues

My Favorite Things As a former Vogue editor and one of the co-founders of La Ligne, Meredith Melling has mastered French-girl style. Her trick? She sticks to one timeless wardrobe stable—stripes. Herewith, she shares her top picks

Child’s Play For the past 25 years, South Park has been an equal-opportunity offender. One writer can’t get enough

Landing Gear An automated terrarium for even the most hopeless of plant-lovers; a streaming device that’s built to move; a power adapter big enough for an army (and 200 countries); and more

Dirty Rotten Royals Where did previously “penniless” Sarah Ferguson get $6.1 million to buy a bougie Mayfair town house?

Nostalgia—It’s on the Menu In Los Angeles, martinis and wedge salads at Old Hollywood hot spots have replaced juice cleanses and vegan grain bowls

Two More Prince Andrew Dramas And other strange news about these curious days …

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James Shalom The art dealer turned founder of clothing company Salie 66 on what it takes to make a new fashion concept stand out

A Big Show for a Big Week Welcome to our 100th episode

Bunker Down A no-go zone during the Cold War, Sazan Island has become an outpost for the European avant-garde

Floral Tribute A dazzling new coffee-table book explores the flower in contemporary photography

Crimes of the Mind How a journalist turned screenwriter stumbled onto the unbelievable but true story that became Rogue Agent

Save This Masterpiece from the Tech Bros In California, a rare Frank Lloyd Wright home is on the market

The fashion designer answers 59 of life’s most pressing questions

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