March 15, 2025 – Air Mail

WORRIED SICK

After a career in pediatric hospitals, Dr. Adam Ratner, an infectious-diseases specialist, is spooked by the long-term dangers posed by the measles outbreak …

SECRET WEAPON

How a nuclear bomb 190 times more powerful than the one dropped on Nagasaki was lost off the coast of Georgia and—despite what the government says—might still be at risk of detonating …

ROOMS FOR IMPROVEMENT

New York City’s Waldorf Astoria was once an emblem of American grandeur. A decade after its closure, the reopening—under an unlikely new owner—doesn’t bode well …

DEBONAIR DIPLOMAT

Fetishizing younger men in the manner of Babygirl may be all the rage, but Hilary Rose says it’s the silver foxes who deserve our desire: namely Mark Carney, Canada’s new prime minister …

THE SHOW MUSTN’T GO ON

The low-stakes ambitions of Meghan Markle’s new (and god-awful) Netflix series, With Love, Meghan, make it clear that the duchess just wants to be loved. Instead, viewers are loving to hate-watch her …

BOURDAIN CONFIDENTIAL

Laurie Woolever was looking for an alternative to her unfulfilling day job when Anthony Bourdain asked her to be his assistant. She reveals what it was like being on the road with the late chef …

CHANGING OF THE GARDIENNES

An homage to Paris’s dwindling ranks of concierges, who act as both the caretakers and the eyes and ears of the city’s grand buildings …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

A Facebook whistleblower tells all … Henry Ford déjà vu … Harper Lee’s hidden stories, unearthed … the infrared alarm that can sense wildfires … the 1900s swindlers who became “spiritual celebrities” … the Sex Pistols look back on their chaotic 1978 U.S. tour … inside Printemps’s American gamble … and our Employee of the Month Award goes to …

Issue No. 296

The View from Here A New York City pediatric infectious-diseases doctor never thought he’d see a vicious resurgence of measles, an entirely preventable illness, in his lifetime. He was wrong

By Adam Ratner

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The Silver Fox Is Back, Baby! From George Clooney to The White Lotus’s Jason Isaacs, to Canada’s new prime minister, men over the age of 60 are having a moment

By Hilary Rose

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The Fall—and Rise?—of the Waldorf Astoria Once host to U.S. presidents, the hotel may finally be reopening after eight troubled years

By Ben Ryder Howe

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Bombshell A 7,600-pound nuclear weapon has been languishing off the coast of Georgia since 1958, when it was lost by the U.S. Air Force during a Cold War training exercise. What could possibly go wrong?

By John von Sothen

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Set the Table

Spring has never been more welcome. Show it some love with a table freshly set in its honor. AIR SUPPLY’s guide has Los Encajeros embroidered linen napkins, Tory Burch floral salad plates, Terrain’s fresh jasmine, and linens galore

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Photo: William Grigsby/Condé Nast/Getty Images (picnic)

Daniel Patrick Giles’s Favorite Things The founder of Perfumehead applies a filmmaker’s sensibility to his extraits de parfum. Here, what he goes crazy for

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Claude Malhuret, the 75-year-old French senator from a little-known center-right party. In a now viral speech on Tuesday, Malhuret distilled the treachery of Trump’s about-face on Ukraine and issued a call to arms that has galvanized Europe and many in the U.S.

“Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffoon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service. This is a tragedy for the free world, but it’s first and foremost a tragedy for the United States.”

Photo: Alexis Jumeau/Abaca Press/Alamy (Malhuret)

Sucks to Sussex From scathing reviews to memes, Netflix’s With Love, Meghan has only fueled more bullying toward Meghan Markle as viewers revel in hate-watching her show

By Caitlin Moran

Photo Illustration by Chop Choppish Shop

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Silly Love Songs An A.I. music generator that will come up with the track of your dreams! A sensor that detects wildfires before it’s too late! A vacuum that will help you sleep better! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

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About a Boycott From German musicians to Canadian hockey fans, the world is turning its back on Trump’s America

By Peter Beaumont

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The Attention-Whore Index Sam Bankman-Fried is begging, Elon Musk is wrecking, and the Markles are heckling

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READ Surfer Stories You didn’t have to love surfing to love The Endless Summer, and you don’t have to love it to love this book, either. Edited by…

DRINK Casa Lotos You’ll be hard-pressed to find sotol, the Chihuahuan spirit, in your local cocktail bar. But it’s worth seeking out a bottle of Casa Lotos Blanco…

SHOP La DoubleJ x Mother Denim La DoubleJ designer J. J. Martin is no stranger to collaborations—her swimwear brand, Orlebar Brown,…

WEAR Colleen Allen Colleen Allen is one of the most discussed designers out of New York, and after going gaga for her fall ’25 collection…

READ The Creative Entrepreneur Walk into a large bookstore and you’ll find dozens of books on how to be creative or how to start a…

READ Early Thirties Victor and Zoey have been best friends since they met in college. But a decade later, as both work in New York—Victor at a…

READ Surfer Stories You didn’t have to love surfing to love The Endless Summer, and you don’t have to love it to love this book, either. Edited by…

DRINK Casa Lotos You’ll be hard-pressed to find sotol, the Chihuahuan spirit, in your local cocktail bar. But it’s worth seeking out a bottle of Casa Lotos Blanco…

SHOP La DoubleJ x Mother Denim La DoubleJ designer J. J. Martin is no stranger to collaborations—her swimwear brand, Orlebar Brown,…

WEAR Colleen Allen Colleen Allen is one of the most discussed designers out of New York, and after going gaga for her fall ’25 collection…

READ The Creative Entrepreneur Walk into a large bookstore and you’ll find dozens of books on how to be creative or how to start a…

READ Early Thirties Victor and Zoey have been best friends since they met in college. But a decade later, as both work in New York—Victor at a…

Elon Musk Is the New Henry Ford (and Not in a Good Way) Before liberals turned on Tesla, Ford was boycotted for its owner’s toxic political views

By George Pendle

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Me and Tony Bourdain At 35, I left my hard-won editor job to become Anthony Bourdain’s assistant. It was the best decision I’ve ever made

By Laurie Woolever

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The Last Spies of Paris Unlike porters in London or doormen in New York, Paris’s omnipresent gardiennes—the eyes and ears of Haussmann buildings—are fast disappearing

By Makana Eyre

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Harper Lee, Lost and Found Eight short stories by the To Kill a Mockingbird author, discovered after her death in 2016, are being published for the first time

By Will Pavia

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Anarchy in the U.S. Ahead of their reunion, British punk band the Sex Pistols recall the madness of their 1970s American tour—drugs, cowboys, and all

By Will Hodgkinson

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Top of the Line Algerian streets, Italian fountains, German tanks … The late New Yorker illustrator and cartoonist Saul Steinberg’s drawings are collected in a new edition of All in Line

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A sampling of drawings from Saul Steinberg’s monograph.

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Is Savannah, Georgia, the Next Chernobyl? On this week’s podcast, John von Sothen reveals the bizarre story of Savannah and a missing nuclear bomb

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Printemps in New York The French department store is opening a beautifully designed outpost in Lower Manhattan. But can it make shopping fun again?

By Christine Muhlke

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Emma Duncan On

Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work

by Sarah Wynn-Williams

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Tom Scocca On

Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult

by Raphael Cormack

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Tom Burke Now starring alongside Cate Blanchett in both Black Bag and The Seagull, the British actor opens up about overcoming extreme shyness

By Bridget Arsenault

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Victor Hugo’s Secret Sketchbook

Victor Hugo’s delicate pen-and-ink sketches radiate charm. They draw you in, demanding closer attention. It is not so much the quality of the draftsmanship, although the quality is good enough. Their appeal lies in their composition. Produced in private by this remarkably creative man, more than 4,000 precious drawings are held in archives around the world. Terrifyingly fragile, these works on paper are rarely shown and were last exhibited in London in 1974. READ ON

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“I don’t get it, Jenkins. What are they getting right about employee morale over at the toy factory that we here at JG & Sons Puppy Coffins are getting wrong?”

Good Vibrations At the Brach Madrid, a new hotel designed by Philippe Starck, locals and travelers mingle in style

By Mary Lussiana

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Amanda Seyfried

The Mamma Mia! and Les Misérables actress answers 30 of life’s most pressing questions

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The View from Here A New York City pediatric infectious-diseases doctor never thought he’d see a vicious resurgence of measles, an entirely preventable illness, in his lifetime. He was wrong

The Silver Fox Is Back, Baby! From George Clooney to The White Lotus’s Jason Isaacs, to Canada’s new prime minister, men over the age of 60 are having a moment

The Fall—and Rise?—of the Waldorf Astoria Once host to U.S. presidents, the hotel may finally be reopening after eight troubled years

Bombshell A 7,600-pound nuclear weapon has been languishing off the coast of Georgia since 1958, when it was lost by the U.S. Air Force during a Cold War training exercise. What could possibly go wrong?

Spring has never been more welcome. Show it some love with a table freshly set in its honor. AIR SUPPLY’s guide has Los Encajeros embroidered linen napkins, Tory Burch floral salad plates, Terrain’s fresh jasmine, and linens galore

Daniel Patrick Giles’s Favorite Things The founder of Perfumehead applies a filmmaker’s sensibility to his extraits de parfum. Here, what he goes crazy for

Sucks to Sussex From scathing reviews to memes, Netflix’s With Love, Meghan has only fueled more bullying toward Meghan Markle as viewers revel in hate-watching her show

Silly Love Songs An A.I. music generator that will come up with the track of your dreams! A sensor that detects wildfires before it’s too late! A vacuum that will help you sleep better! And more …

About a Boycott From German musicians to Canadian hockey fans, the world is turning its back on Trump’s America

The Attention-Whore Index Sam Bankman-Fried is begging, Elon Musk is wrecking, and the Markles are heckling

Elon Musk Is the New Henry Ford (and Not in a Good Way) Before liberals turned on Tesla, Ford was boycotted for its owner’s toxic political views

Me and Tony Bourdain At 35, I left my hard-won editor job to become Anthony Bourdain’s assistant. It was the best decision I’ve ever made

The Last Spies of Paris Unlike porters in London or doormen in New York, Paris’s omnipresent gardiennes—the eyes and ears of Haussmann buildings—are fast disappearing

Harper Lee, Lost and Found Eight short stories by the To Kill a Mockingbird author, discovered after her death in 2016, are being published for the first time

Anarchy in the U.S. Ahead of their reunion, British punk band the Sex Pistols recall the madness of their 1970s American tour—drugs, cowboys, and all

Top of the Line Algerian streets, Italian fountains, German tanks … The late New Yorker illustrator and cartoonist Saul Steinberg’s drawings are collected in a new edition of All in Line

Is Savannah, Georgia, the Next Chernobyl? On this week’s podcast, John von Sothen reveals the bizarre story of Savannah and a missing nuclear bomb

Printemps in New York The French department store is opening a beautifully designed outpost in Lower Manhattan. But can it make shopping fun again?

Tom Burke Now starring alongside Cate Blanchett in both Black Bag and The Seagull, the British actor opens up about overcoming extreme shyness

Good Vibrations At the Brach Madrid, a new hotel designed by Philippe Starck, locals and travelers mingle in style

The Mamma Mia! and Les Misérables actress answers 30 of life’s most pressing questions

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