February 18, 2023

Blood Lust

From Moscow, Idaho, Nancy Jo Sales reveals how the behavior of Bryan Kohberger, the alleged murderer of four university students, is straight out of the incel playbook …

Proceed with Caution!

From Mar-a-Lago, AIR MAIL unearths MAGAzine, the latest Trump venture …

First in Class

From Arkansas, Legs McNeil presents an oral history of the Little Rock Nine, the first Black students to integrate an intensely racist, whites-only high school …

Stars and Gripes

From the Cotswolds, Joseph Bullmore charts how Americans have embraced the English countryside, but the feeling isn’t always mutual …

Guardian at the Gate

From TikTok, Cazzie David dissects the latest social-media trend—gatekeeping—and how it’s nothing but another consumer trap …

Discount Divas

From the penthouse, Andrew Zucker explores how a canceled man’s worthless real estate is another man’s treasure, and the lengths new owners will go to in order to clear the bad juju …

Dreading the Boards

From the 1960s, Michael Elias recalls that the greatest performances he ever saw were from young actors dodging the Vietnam draft …

Scent’s Abilities

From Air Mail’s Beauty and Wellness Lab, Linda Wells goes inside the master perfumers’ craft, and learns how they’re shunning blockbuster perfumes for more idiosyncratic fragrances …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

A.I. will transform your sex life, though not necessarily for the better … the billionaire’s loafer of choice… an Arctic explorer’s rough time in Hollywood … a tiny but mighty London brewery … a feminist fatale in a new film noir … Evangeline Lilly answers our most pressing questions … antiquing on Instagram … once more unto the Attention-Whore Index! …

Issue No. 188

The View from Here As the Vietnam War raged, and the draft struck, young actors found themselves performing for their lives

By Michael Elias

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“Blood Will Run in the Streets” An oral history of the Little Rock Nine

By Legs McNeil

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Idaho, Instagram, and Incels The alleged Moscow student murderer’s behavior is straight out of the incel playbook

By Nancy Jo Sales

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La Dolce Vita

Even if you’re not jetting off to Milan for Fashion Week, why not let the occasion serve as an opportunity to indulge your senses with some ever elegant Italian craftsmanship, as seen in our choice leather goods, hand-painted ceramics, and more?

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My Favorite Things After nearly four decades of designing jewelry for brands such as Marc Jacobs and Oscar de la Renta, Roxanne Assoulin launched her namesake line with an eye-catching enamel bracelet, which sold out in one day. Herewith, she shares her go-to accessory of the moment, and more of the staples she swears by for her day-to-day

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Eye of the Beholder What happens when the key ingredient of a blockbuster fragrance becomes scarce? For Thierry Wasser, the head perfumer of Guerlain, reworking recipes is a primary job responsibility. Along with reading Proust and traipsing through fields, naturally

By Linda Wells

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Wear Attersee Attersee is annoying. Our financial planner would be so much happier if this brand, founded by former fashion editor Isabel Wilkinson Schor…

Sip Via Carota Craft Cocktails On any given day, patient New Yorkers gather on Grove Street with hopes of indulging their stomachs…

Listen Infamous About one year before Keith Raniere was convicted of sex trafficking and racketeering, journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis spent several…

Look Andrew Bush The Rose Bowl Flea Market is the closest thing to a sporting event many Los Angelenos dare attend. The sun beats down upon the concrete…

Scroll Antiques on Instagram England is not suffering from a lack of brick-and-mortar purveyors of antique and vintage furnishings…

Watch Reboot When Hollywood isn’t making shows about Silicon Valley and its start-ups (The Dropout, WeCrashed, Super Pumped, The Playlist)…

Wear Attersee Attersee is annoying. Our financial planner would be so much happier if this brand, founded by former fashion editor Isabel Wilkinson Schor…

Sip Via Carota Craft Cocktails On any given day, patient New Yorkers gather on Grove Street with hopes of indulging their stomachs…

Listen Infamous About one year before Keith Raniere was convicted of sex trafficking and racketeering, journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis spent several…

Look Andrew Bush The Rose Bowl Flea Market is the closest thing to a sporting event many Los Angelenos dare attend. The sun beats down upon the concrete…

Scroll Antiques on Instagram England is not suffering from a lack of brick-and-mortar purveyors of antique and vintage furnishings…

Watch Reboot When Hollywood isn’t making shows about Silicon Valley and its start-ups (The Dropout, WeCrashed, Super Pumped, The Playlist)…

Hot Girls, Please Gatekeep On social media, a new trend allows users to openly boast about how hot they are—all in the name of generosity

By Cazzie David

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Yanks-on-the-Wold The Cotswolds are alive with the sound of Americans

By Joseph Bullmore

Illustration by Pip Carter

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From a Galaxy Far, Far Away What can Nikki Haley teach us about the solar system? And the Republican Party?

By John Ficarra

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The Billionaire’s Loafer What do David Zaslav, Larry Gagosian, and Bobby Kotick have in common? A fondness for a certain suede shoe from Loro Piana

By Tom Chamberlin

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The Canceled-Man Discount For some buyers, a public figure’s shaming presents a great opportunity: a real-estate bargain

By Andrew Zucker

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The Attention-Whore Index With George Santos pausing for breath after an attention-grabbing run, which new gasbag is primed to pass him? Only you can decide!

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Fake Friends Lawyers, lovers, and lab results—artificial-intelligence bots ChatGPT and Google Bard promise a new version of reality

By Danny Fortson

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Half-Pint Upstart There are micro-breweries, there are nano-breweries, and then there is Macintosh Ales

By Spike Carter

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“The exclamation points make the whole thing seem desperate and contrived.”

Knickers in a Twist in Paradise On this week’s podcast, Joseph Bullmore dishes on the Brits who are none too happy that rich Americans have come to the Cotswolds

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Jyoti Bhatt’s love affair with photography began in 1957. The Indian artist, then 23, attended “The Family of Man,” a touring exhibition of humanist photographs curated by Edward Steichen, which had traveled to the city of Ahmedabad, in Gujarat. “I think that inspired me most by showing me what photography can do,” Bhatt tells me in a recent interview. “I had always kept a sketchbook, but with a photograph I could record everything I saw and not just certain details.” READ ON

Ardhnarishwar, photographed by Jyoti Bhatt in Venice, 1966. The image is included in a show on Bhatt’s work opening today at the new Museum of Art & Photography, in Bengaluru, India. Read On

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Madelyn Cline Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, the young star has made her mark on Hollywood with Netflix’s Outer Banks

By Carolina de Armas

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New Noir Diane Kruger discusses her feminist spin on the femme fatale in Marlowe, a Raymond Chandler adaptation in which she stars opposite Liam Neeson

By Graham Fuller

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William Klein’s World A new coffee-table book pays tribute to the photographer whose unconventional style helped revive a staid industry

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*Cineposter, Tokyo,* photographed by William Klein in 1961.

*3 profiles, 1 cop,* photographed by Klein in New York, 1954.

*Top, Wall Street from below*, New York, 1955; *above,* *Halloween. Masks posing. Marty & Co in tapered slacks, hands in pocket,* 7th Avenue, 1954.

*Top,* *Big face, big buttons, St Patrick’s Day,* Fifth Avenue, New York, 1955; *above, Op-art dressing room and models,* 1966.

*Dorothy + Formfit,* shot for *Vogue* in Paris, 1961.

*Sunday Outing, The Holy Family on Vespa,* Rome, 1956.

*Top, Right to Housing’s association members,* Paris, 2000; *above,* *Moves + Pepsi,* Harlem, 1955.

*Barbara Mullen, Hat and Fives Roses,* shot for *Vogue* in Paris, 1956.

*Top,* *Yoshimura practices trombone in Shinohara’s grandmother’s house*, Tokyo, 1961; *above, 4 men in a café,* painted by Klein circa 1948.

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“On the plus side, I finally have a key to the executive washroom.”

From the Arctic to Hollywood, with Stops Along the Way In 1932, MGM set out to adapt a book by Peter Freuchen for the screen. The result was more chaotic than any of the Arctic explorer’s expeditions

By Reid Mitenbuler

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David Kamp On

Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges

by Stuart Klawans

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Daphne Merkin On

Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

by Carmela Ciuraru

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Murder, They Wrote

by Lisa Henricksson

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“I want to hear that cry of distress like you mean it!”

Eugene Lee The theater, film, and TV designer was with Saturday Night Live from its inception, in 1975, to this month

By Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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Evangeline Lilly

The actress answers 50 of life’s most pressing questions

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Extracting color, texture, design, and the dynamic movement of a figure from a sea of publicity photos is an homage to the vibe of a fashion designer. (Here, Thom Browne’s spring 2023 reimagining of the classic “Cinderella” fairy tale.) I work in watercolor with quill and brush, allowing the negative space of the unpainted paper to act as light.

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The View from Here As the Vietnam War raged, and the draft struck, young actors found themselves performing for their lives

The Official Lifestyle Publication and Policy Journal of Your Once and Future Favorite President

“Blood Will Run in the Streets” An oral history of the Little Rock Nine

Idaho, Instagram, and Incels The alleged Moscow student murderer’s behavior is straight out of the incel playbook

Even if you’re not jetting off to Milan for Fashion Week, why not let the occasion serve as an opportunity to indulge your senses with some ever elegant Italian craftsmanship, as seen in our choice leather goods, hand-painted ceramics, and more?

Eye of the Beholder What happens when the key ingredient of a blockbuster fragrance becomes scarce? For Thierry Wasser, the head perfumer of Guerlain, reworking recipes is a primary job responsibility. Along with reading Proust and traipsing through fields, naturally

Hot Girls, Please Gatekeep On social media, a new trend allows users to openly boast about how hot they are—all in the name of generosity

Yanks-on-the-Wold The Cotswolds are alive with the sound of Americans

From a Galaxy Far, Far Away What can Nikki Haley teach us about the solar system? And the Republican Party?

The Billionaire’s Loafer What do David Zaslav, Larry Gagosian, and Bobby Kotick have in common? A fondness for a certain suede shoe from Loro Piana

The Canceled-Man Discount For some buyers, a public figure’s shaming presents a great opportunity: a real-estate bargain

The Attention-Whore Index With George Santos pausing for breath after an attention-grabbing run, which new gasbag is primed to pass him? Only you can decide!

Fake Friends Lawyers, lovers, and lab results—artificial-intelligence bots ChatGPT and Google Bard promise a new version of reality

Half-Pint Upstart There are micro-breweries, there are nano-breweries, and then there is Macintosh Ales

Knickers in a Twist in Paradise On this week’s podcast, Joseph Bullmore dishes on the Brits who are none too happy that rich Americans have come to the Cotswolds

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Good grief: Jennifer Ehle stars in Jean Racine’s Phèdre, available for streaming beginning February 21 …

Madelyn Cline Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, the young star has made her mark on Hollywood with Netflix’s Outer Banks

New Noir Diane Kruger discusses her feminist spin on the femme fatale in Marlowe, a Raymond Chandler adaptation in which she stars opposite Liam Neeson

William Klein’s World A new coffee-table book pays tribute to the photographer whose unconventional style helped revive a staid industry

From the Arctic to Hollywood, with Stops Along the Way In 1932, MGM set out to adapt a book by Peter Freuchen for the screen. The result was more chaotic than any of the Arctic explorer’s expeditions

Eugene Lee The theater, film, and TV designer was with Saturday Night Live from its inception, in 1975, to this month

The actress answers 50 of life’s most pressing questions

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