Slippery Suspect

From Paris, Malika Browne recalls her meeting with Charles Sobhraj, the serial killer known as “the Serpent,” who has just returned home after nearly 20 years in a Nepalese jail …

War Child

From Denmark, Sveta V., a teenage refugee from Mariupol, tells her terrifying story of escape on the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion …

High Lines

From New York City, Elena Clavarino maps out the Big Apple’s drug scene by neighborhood. Where do you get yours?

Unhappily Ever After

From the honeymoon suite, Stuart Heritage reports on the grisly legal aftermath of Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz’s wedding, which racked up a $100K bill for hair and makeup alone …

Cutting Edge

From the atelier, William Middleton traces the life of Karl Lagerfeld, and reveals some of his most devilish quips …

Deus Ex Social Media

From a Times Square basement, Nathan King goes undercover at Hillsong, the scandal-plagued Australian mega-church beloved by such latter-day saints as the Biebers and the Kardashians …

Inspector Gadget

From the AIR MAIL test lab, our tech-and-gear columnist, Jonathan Margolis, tries a new boxing app that’ll get your fists flying and your heart racing …

Table for Two, Please!

In AIR MAIL’s essential podcast, Bruce Bozzi chats with Kate Hudson about The Glass Onion, being born into Hollywood royalty, and her wedding plans …

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Rishi Sunak’s terrible choice in suits … J. K. Rowling faces her dementors … move over Julia Roberts—K-pop stars are the new luxury-brand ambassadors … it’s All Quiet on the Western Front, again … archaeologists discover the only known Roman dildo … a Musk-free Tesla alternative … Can a French airline make flying from Newark glamorous? … and the Attention-Whore Index wants you (to vote)!

Issue No. 189

The View from Here One year after Putin’s invasion, a refugee from Mariupol tries to forge a new life in Europe

By Sveta V.

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Return of the Serpent Charles Sobhraj, the serial killer known as “the Serpent,” recently returned to Paris after two decades in a Nepalese jail. What’s he planning next?

By Malika Browne

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Putin’s Meat Grinder How Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former convict turned billionaire businessman, became the Russian president’s secret weapon—and loose cannon

By Matthew Campbell

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Nepo-Baby Nuptials Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz may just be the ultimate bridezillas

By Stuart Heritage

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Comfort Zone

This winter, make the most out of your living space with these inviting touches, designed to bring comfort and joy

Shop

Photo: Giancarlo Botti/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images (Hardy)

My Favorite Things Christopher Niquet, the Paris-based editor of Study magazine, shares his highly considered objects of choice, from a fountain pen to a workman’s jacket and beyond

By Christopher Niquet

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Photo: Sean Thomas (Niquet)

Sweet Science A hard-hitting fitness tracker! A clock for book-lovers! The best tool for cleaning your shoes! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

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The Ultimate Map of New York and Its Drugs

From Xanax to cocaine to mushrooms, we break down the city’s drug scene by neighborhood

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“You never said your parents were coming.”

The Attention-Whore Index Will it be a familiar old contemptible or a striking new pretender who claims your attention this week? The decision is yours!

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How to Not Commit Suicide in Russia

Even if you’re one of Vladimir Putin’s allies, you stand a good chance of catching a fatal case of the glums

By Henry Alford

Illustration by Barry Blitt

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Dine Bar Cecil As the owners of two hugely popular Palm Springs boutique hotels, Sparrows Lodge and Holiday House, entrepreneurs Jeff Brock and…

Craft Ciselier It’s too bad that one’s first experience with scissors is usually a plastic-handled, rounded-tip affair handed out by a pre-school teacher…

Sip Little Saints Maybe you crushed dry January and want to continue feeling virtuous, or maybe 2023 is crushing you. Either way, taking a break or…

Carry Bottega Veneta Not everyone likes sardines on a salad. But can anyone really resist this fishy bag from Bottega Veneta? Called—that’s right—the Sardine…

Fly La Compagnie Boutique French airline La Compagnie is poised to do the impossible—make flying out of Newark glamorous. The airline, which flies exclusively…

Listen Murdaugh Murders Journalist Mandy Matney has been following attorney Alex Murdaugh and his powerful family since 2019, when the heir apparent to the…

Dine Bar Cecil As the owners of two hugely popular Palm Springs boutique hotels, Sparrows Lodge and Holiday House, entrepreneurs Jeff Brock and…

Craft Ciselier It’s too bad that one’s first experience with scissors is usually a plastic-handled, rounded-tip affair handed out by a pre-school teacher…

Sip Little Saints Maybe you crushed dry January and want to continue feeling virtuous, or maybe 2023 is crushing you. Either way, taking a break or…

Carry Bottega Veneta Not everyone likes sardines on a salad. But can anyone really resist this fishy bag from Bottega Veneta? Called—that’s right—the Sardine…

Fly La Compagnie Boutique French airline La Compagnie is poised to do the impossible—make flying out of Newark glamorous. The airline, which flies exclusively…

Listen Murdaugh Murders Journalist Mandy Matney has been following attorney Alex Murdaugh and his powerful family since 2019, when the heir apparent to the…

Lunch with Kate Hudson The good-natured actress talks about being a child of Hollywood, whether she wants a big wedding, and much more in the latest episode of Table for Two

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Ill-Suited Sunak Are the British prime minister’s problems down to his choice of suits?

By Aleks Cvetkovic

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Uncut Gemstones If the Safdie brothers made a movie about a Christian mega-church, it would look a lot like a Hillsong service

By Nathan King

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Reaching for the K-pop Stars Luxury labels used to tap Western celebrities—such as Emma Watson, Keira Knightley, and Angelina Jolie—as brand ambassadors. The trend has now pivoted hard toward East Asia

By Lynn Q. Yu

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The Real Karl Lagerfeld Behind the tailored suits, powdered ponytail, and cutting quips was a warm, funny, and sensitive private persona

By William Middleton

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Carter Altman After learning the particulars of suiting at Alexander Nash and the elements of cool at Kith, this 24-year-old designer struck out on his own. Ethan Hawke is already a fan

By Chris Black

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Who’s Afraid of J. K. Rowling? Why the Harry Potter author participated in a podcast series hosted by a first-time interviewer and former Westboro Baptist Church member from “the most hated family in America”

By Claire Cohen

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All Quiet on the Western Front, Again How does the graphic new adaptation of the classic book measure up against the earlier screen version?

By Michael Sragow

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What We Do in the Shadows To better understand toxic masculinity, a British mother joined TikTok and Snapchat—but as a 15-year-old boy named “Harry”

By Helen Rumbelow

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“Remember what we learned in wine country, dear.”

Up Close with a Serial Killer Journalist Malika Browne on interviewing “the Serpent”

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Fosse Fever

If you ask your average New Yorker who Bob Fosse was, they’ll flash on Chicago, still flourishing on Broadway after 48 years. (It’s the longest-running Broadway revival ever.) And they’ll probably conjure up dancers in black, twitching their torsos and slamming bowler hats down over their eyes. READ ON

The first Broadway revival of Bob Fosse’s 1978 musical, Dancin’, opens March 2.

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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction

by Lynne Olson

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The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire

by Ryan Gingeras

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Palm Beach Living A new coffee-table book surveys the architects and interior designers behind some of the island’s most beautiful homes—and the people who lived in them, from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to Lilly Pulitzer

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“I love symmetry,” says Carole Mack, whose John Volk–designed Palladian-style Palm Beach home she has shared with her husband, the diplomat Earle Mack, for more than 30 years. The gazebo—Mack’s favorite lunch spot—looks out onto the Intracoastal.

A Richard Diebenkorn painting from his “Ocean Park” series hangs above a Henry Moore bronze in the front hall of a Venetian Gothic–style lakefront house designed by architect Jeffrey W. Smith.

The courtyard of Nina and Pieter Taselaar’s home features Portuguese tiles, while the table is set with Mary Mahoney china.

A seashell mirror detail, designed by Christopher Ostafin, in the Macks’ home.

Villa Filipponi, built in the 1920s for a Chicago heiress and renovated under the guidance of designer Mark D. Sikes and architect Mark Marsh, included a family crest, which was left in place on the chimneypiece in the living room.

*Top,* the pool at John and Britty Damgard’s home, originally designed by Volk; *above,* vintage photographs and a taxidermy fish adorn a room in Duck’s Nest—one of the island’s only remaining original houses, built in 1891 for Henry Maddock and now owned by Julie and Brian Simmons.

A gold-and-black-lacquered cabinet of curiosities in the Macks’ home is filled with a combination of Roman and Venetian glass, shells, and a pair of elephants from the couple’s travels.

The drawing room of Camel House, owned by Katharine Rayner, captures the spirit of the Near East and North Africa with watercolors by her late husband, William; objects acquired on visits to the area; and tangerine-colored walls.

“To me, Palm Beach has always felt like a conjured paradise, and I wanted the house to reflect that,” says Liz Lange of her lakefront retreat—she worked with Jonathan Adler on the redesign. Blue Samarkand paper by Peter Dunham adorns the walls of the dining room, while a vintage Mario Lopez Torres wicker Monkey Chandelier hangs overhead.

The landscape architect Mario Nievera took his cues from the Daniel Kahan–designed house, extending its precise, minimalist aesthetic to the grounds.

*Top,* the living room in Casa Eleda, an Italian Romanesque–style house designed in 1928 for Mortimer and Adele Schiff. Due to its exterior façade of pale coquina stone separated by strips of red brick, resembling the layers of a sandwich, locals endearingly refer to it as “the Ham and Cheese House”; *above,* the garden at Amistad, a 4,000-acre ranch owned by Pepe Fanjul and his wife, Emilia. Amistad usually has about 50 dogs in residence, including Labradors, cocker spaniels, and pointers.

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All Roads Lead to Accra Infusions of fashion, photography, and art are drawing design-lovers to Ghana’s thrilling capital city

By Catherine Fairweather

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Nick English

The co-founder of Bremont, the English watch manufacturer, answers 56 of life’s most pressing questions

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“I stand … alone.” A performer—whether an acrobat, actor, writer, or painter—sometimes needs to be bold enough to stand solo in the spotlight without much approval from onlookers. That is to say, the artist is not always welcome, especially if he or she is provocative or does things in an unusual way.

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The View from Here One year after Putin’s invasion, a refugee from Mariupol tries to forge a new life in Europe

Return of the Serpent Charles Sobhraj, the serial killer known as “the Serpent,” recently returned to Paris after two decades in a Nepalese jail. What’s he planning next?

Putin’s Meat Grinder How Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former convict turned billionaire businessman, became the Russian president’s secret weapon—and loose cannon

Nepo-Baby Nuptials Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz may just be the ultimate bridezillas

This winter, make the most out of your living space with these inviting touches, designed to bring comfort and joy

My Favorite Things Christopher Niquet, the Paris-based editor of Study magazine, shares his highly considered objects of choice, from a fountain pen to a workman’s jacket and beyond

Sweet Science A hard-hitting fitness tracker! A clock for book-lovers! The best tool for cleaning your shoes! And more …

From Xanax to cocaine to mushrooms, we break down the city’s drug scene by neighborhood

The Attention-Whore Index Will it be a familiar old contemptible or a striking new pretender who claims your attention this week? The decision is yours!

Even if you’re one of Vladimir Putin’s allies, you stand a good chance of catching a fatal case of the glums

Lunch with Kate Hudson The good-natured actress talks about being a child of Hollywood, whether she wants a big wedding, and much more in the latest episode of Table for Two

Ill-Suited Sunak Are the British prime minister’s problems down to his choice of suits?

Uncut Gemstones If the Safdie brothers made a movie about a Christian mega-church, it would look a lot like a Hillsong service

Reaching for the K-pop Stars Luxury labels used to tap Western celebrities—such as Emma Watson, Keira Knightley, and Angelina Jolie—as brand ambassadors. The trend has now pivoted hard toward East Asia

The Real Karl Lagerfeld Behind the tailored suits, powdered ponytail, and cutting quips was a warm, funny, and sensitive private persona

Carter Altman After learning the particulars of suiting at Alexander Nash and the elements of cool at Kith, this 24-year-old designer struck out on his own. Ethan Hawke is already a fan

Who’s Afraid of J. K. Rowling? Why the Harry Potter author participated in a podcast series hosted by a first-time interviewer and former Westboro Baptist Church member from “the most hated family in America”

All Quiet on the Western Front, Again How does the graphic new adaptation of the classic book measure up against the earlier screen version?

What We Do in the Shadows To better understand toxic masculinity, a British mother joined TikTok and Snapchat—but as a 15-year-old boy named “Harry”

Up Close with a Serial Killer Journalist Malika Browne on interviewing “the Serpent”

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