November 8, 2025 – Air Mail

THE CALABRIAN JOB

How Italian prosecutor Nicola Gratteri is taking on the ’Ndrangheta—the most powerful and dangerous organized-crime group in the world—one mobster at a time …

START THE PRESSES!

In an age of pixels, swipes, and shrinking attention spans, Harper’s Magazine president John MacArthur remains committed to print—not as a romantic notion but as a patriotic duty …

THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES

All of David Beckham’s children gathered to celebrate his knighthood this week—save for the prodigal son, Brooklyn, who is rumored to be at odds with his family …

BEHIND THE SCENES—AND BETWEEN THE SHEETS

In diaries spanning 50 years, Eleanor Coppola, the late wife of Francis and mother of Sofia, chronicles life inside America’s biggest cinematic dynasty …

THE POWER OF POWELL

No one, not even fickle Hollywood—or our interviewer, Marina Hyde—can resist Texan actor Glen Powell’s Southern charm and movie-star good looks …

FACING THE MUSIC

With Paramount pulling the plug on MTV’s sister channels, former company executive Bill Flanagan asks if the network’s glory days could ever return …

GOING FOR GAVIN

From Trump parodies to Kimberly Guilfoyle, Henry Alford enumerates 15 very compelling reasons why California governor Gavin Newsom should be president …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Confessions of an exiled—and enraged—Spanish king … British barristers are shedding their 400-year-old wigs … Robbie Robertson revisits his wild nights with Martin Scorsese … Alexandra Marshall checks into Normandy’s best new hotel … and Skye McAlpine shares her guide to holiday hosting …

Issue No. 330

The View from Here Let me tell you about a technology that’s censor-proof, beyond the reach of A.I., and optimized for “deeper reading.” It’s called ink on paper

By John R. MacArthur

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Calabria’s Mafia Buster Today, the ’Ndrangheta brings in six times as much money as Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel does. One Italian public prosecutor has made it his life’s mission to take them down

By Elena Clavarino

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The Weekly Waffle

A positively addictive word game to go with your morning coffee

Bow Out Like Beckham In an endless feud with his parents, Posh and Becks, Brooklyn Beckham delivers his latest snub—as a no-show at his father’s knighthood bash

By Marianka Swain

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A Family of Filmmakers Two of Me brings Eleanor Coppola’s revelatory, 50-year diary project to a close

By Sam Wasson

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Ho-Ho-Hosting Gift Guide

If you aspire to be the host who checks their list twice, sets their table thrice, and has a spare gift wrapped just in case, AIR SUPPLY is here with your toolbox of good cheer

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Photo: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images (Mansfield in The Girl Can’t Help It)

Hosting with Skye McAlpine

The cookbook writer, who splits her time between London and Venice, just published The Christmas Companion. Her taste for la dolce vita and English chintz informs her approach to the perfect holiday

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Photo: George Hurrell/John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images (Crawford)

15 Reasons Gavin Newsom Should Be President With Proposition 50 re-drawing California’s congressional map in favor of the Democrats, we count the reasons why the governor is a serious presidential contender

By Henry Alford

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Who Was This Week’s Biggest Attention Whore? In the running: J. D. Vance, for trying to Catholicize his Hindu-raised wife; Kim Kardashian, for starring in what could be the worst TV show of all time; and more

By George Kalogerakis

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¡Ay, Caramba! Exile in Abu Dhabi hasn’t stopped Spain’s disgraced king, Juan Carlos I, from sounding off on “benevolent” dictator Francisco Franco, Princess Diana, and that infamous safari incident

By Isambard Wilkinson

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write The Open Page Retreat How much writing can one get done in five days? Those brave enough to venture out to…

snuggle Lola Blankets Some TikTok-inspired purchases really didn’t need to happen—the handheld fan, the mouth tape, the L.E.D. pocket mirror…

sparkle Messika How many necklaces does one really need? Chokers, lariats, diamonds by the yard—some would argue that there’s a place…

sip Lalo Tequila I love tequila. I’m not cool (or tough) enough to drink it neat, so the margarita is my potion of choice. I once considered myself…

shop Bogner If you happen to be in New York today, make a run downtown to Printemps before Bogner’s Collector’s Items pop-up…

visit First Bloom Pop-up The brainchild of chef and food writer Alison Roman, First Bloom is a fan-favorite corner store in the Catskills that stocks wine…

write The Open Page Retreat How much writing can one get done in five days? Those brave enough to venture out to…

snuggle Lola Blankets Some TikTok-inspired purchases really didn’t need to happen—the handheld fan, the mouth tape, the L.E.D. pocket mirror…

sparkle Messika How many necklaces does one really need? Chokers, lariats, diamonds by the yard—some would argue that there’s a place…

sip Lalo Tequila I love tequila. I’m not cool (or tough) enough to drink it neat, so the margarita is my potion of choice. I once considered myself…

shop Bogner If you happen to be in New York today, make a run downtown to Printemps before Bogner’s Collector’s Items pop-up…

visit First Bloom Pop-up The brainchild of chef and food writer Alison Roman, First Bloom is a fan-favorite corner store in the Catskills that stocks wine…

“Today’s news comes to you in our station’s new typeface, Tragic Sans.”

Wigging? Out! The English Establishment has been shaken by the end of one of its oldest—and most hair-raising—traditions

By Harry Mount

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Does Anyone Still Want Their MTV? Reports of the network’s death were greatly exaggerated. But whether it can survive the streaming era is an open question

By Bill Flanagan

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Across the Universe From James Baldwin to Stephen Hawking, Dublin to the Bronx, a coffee-table book collects 60 years of photographs by the social-justice advocate and artist Stephen Shames

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James Baldwin, photographed by Stephen Shames while visiting the Black Panther leader Bobby Seale at the San Francisco County Jail, 1969.

*Top,* friends in Anaheim, California, 1984; *above,* teenagers in Oakland, California, 1972.

Boys outside the New Haven County Courthouse during demonstrations over the trials of the Black Panthers Seale and Ericka Huggins in Connecticut, 1970.

Angela Davis speaking at a Black Panthers rally in Oakland, 1969.

*Top,* Catholic schoolboys in Belfast, 1971; *above,* Black Panthers outside a rally in Oakland, 1968.

A teenager jumping between buildings in the Bronx, 1977.

*Top,* a boy at São Martinho, a Catholic Church–run program supporting street children in Rio de Janeiro, 2002; *above,* kids in Cincinnati, 1985.

Teenagers kissing in a public pool in New York, 1976.

*Top,* street kids in Bucharest, 1993; *above,* women near the beach in Salvador, Brazil, 2002.

A teenager in a solitary-detention cell at a juvenile facility in Worland, Wyoming, 1984.

A teenager jumping his bike over friends in Cincinnati, 1985.

*Top,* Stephen Hawking playing tag with his son Timothy in Cambridge, England, 1987; *above,* a boy with a mentor assigned to him by the Friends of the Children nonprofit organization in Portland, Oregon, 1995.

Brothers living without medical insurance in Torrance, California, 2000.

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A Lone Star Is Born From Texan cowboy to Hollywood’s hottest leading man, Glen Powell is equal parts Tom Cruise adrenaline and Matthew McConaughey charm

By Marina Hyde

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A scene from Hideaki Anno’s apocalyptic film The End of Evangelion, released in 1997 as an alternative ending to his 1995 anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion.

“The development of Evangelion gives me the feeling of a ‘Live’ concert,” said the Japanese auteur Hideaki Anno in 1996. “Whatever the story or the development of the characters, I made them without a plan.” In fact, he says, “at first I had intended to make a simple work featuring robots.” Anything but “simple,” Anno’s futuristic anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which debuted in October 1995 and ran for 26 episodes, until March 1996, has achieved a fine-wine shelf life, inspiring an evergreen cult obsession of the sort usually associated with the films of, say, Stanley Kubrick or David Lynch. READ ON

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Shore Thing At long last, the idyllic town of Deauville has a worthy place to stay. Welcome to the Maison Douce Époque

By Alexandra Marshall

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Ben Pentreath

The architect, interior designer, and collaborator of King Charles’s answers 47 of life’s most pressing questions

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Junior Editors

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Columnists

Dana Brown Cazzie David Lisa Henricksson
Walter Isaacson Pico Iyer Rachel Johnson
John Lahr Jonathan Margolis Linda Wells
James Wolcott

Writers at Large

Lili Anolik Johanna Berkman Joseph Bullmore Spike Carter Vassi Chamberlain William D. Cohan Rich Cohen Matthew Gurewitsch Victoria Herman Michael Hainey Stuart Heritage George Kalogerakis Sam Kashner James Kirchick Alexander Lobrano Alexandra Marshall Daphne Merkin Sam Wasson

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Jonathan Becker Justin Bishop Alex Board James Emmerman Marcos Fecchino Daniel Paik Art Streiber Sharon Suh Justin Weiner

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Basil Walter

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Rachel LeSage

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Merritt Johnson

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Technology

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Jennifer Noyes

Shop Editor

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Isaac Metlitsky

In Memoriam

Peter Bogdanovich Milton Esterow Duncan Hannah Jane Larkworthy Douglas McGrath Richard David Story André Leon Talley David Yaffe

The View from Here Let me tell you about a technology that’s censor-proof, beyond the reach of A.I., and optimized for “deeper reading.” It’s called ink on paper

Calabria’s Mafia Buster Today, the ’Ndrangheta brings in six times as much money as Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel does. One Italian public prosecutor has made it his life’s mission to take them down

The Weekly Waffle

A positively addictive word game to go with your morning coffee

Bow Out Like Beckham In an endless feud with his parents, Posh and Becks, Brooklyn Beckham delivers his latest snub—as a no-show at his father’s knighthood bash

A Family of Filmmakers Two of Me brings Eleanor Coppola’s revelatory, 50-year diary project to a close

If you aspire to be the host who checks their list twice, sets their table thrice, and has a spare gift wrapped just in case, AIR SUPPLY is here with your toolbox of good cheer

The cookbook writer, who splits her time between London and Venice, just published The Christmas Companion. Her taste for la dolce vita and English chintz informs her approach to the perfect holiday

15 Reasons Gavin Newsom Should Be President With Proposition 50 re-drawing California’s congressional map in favor of the Democrats, we count the reasons why the governor is a serious presidential contender

Who Was This Week’s Biggest Attention Whore? In the running: J. D. Vance, for trying to Catholicize his Hindu-raised wife; Kim Kardashian, for starring in what could be the worst TV show of all time; and more

¡Ay, Caramba! Exile in Abu Dhabi hasn’t stopped Spain’s disgraced king, Juan Carlos I, from sounding off on “benevolent” dictator Francisco Franco, Princess Diana, and that infamous safari incident

Wigging? Out! The English Establishment has been shaken by the end of one of its oldest—and most hair-raising—traditions

Does Anyone Still Want Their MTV? Reports of the network’s death were greatly exaggerated. But whether it can survive the streaming era is an open question

Across the Universe From James Baldwin to Stephen Hawking, Dublin to the Bronx, a coffee-table book collects 60 years of photographs by the social-justice advocate and artist Stephen Shames

A Lone Star Is Born From Texan cowboy to Hollywood’s hottest leading man, Glen Powell is equal parts Tom Cruise adrenaline and Matthew McConaughey charm

Shore Thing At long last, the idyllic town of Deauville has a worthy place to stay. Welcome to the Maison Douce Époque

The architect, interior designer, and collaborator of King Charles’s answers 47 of life’s most pressing questions

Was Founded By

And Is Edited By

Creative Director

Chief Technology Officer

Deputy Editors

Books Editor

Arts Intel Report Editor

Photo Director

Art Director

Copy Editor

Research & Legal Editor

Production Editor

Junior Editors

Deputy Photo Director

Deputy Art Director

Columnists

Writers at Large

Contributing Artists

Contributing Photographers

Architectural Consultant

Social Media Manager

Head of Audience Development

Audience Growth Manager

Cartoon Editor

Music Supervisor

Technology

General Manager, Commerce & Brand Partnerships

Business Development Director

European Sales Director

Financial & Business Operations

Account Manager

Chief Strategy Adviser

Editor, Commerce, and Chief Merchandiser

Shop Editor

E-Commerce Manager

In Memoriam