{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"October 10, 2026 – Air Mail","description":"Welcome to Air Mail Issue number 378.","favicon":"https://static.airmail.news/assets/icons/apple-touch-icon.png","home_page_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10","feed_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10.json","items":[{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/the-view-from-here","title":"The View from Here","content_text":"This week, the Beatles, a band that broke up before Watergate, disco, punk, Star Wars, MTV, and the fall of the Berlin Wall, will release a new song. “Little Girl” is a John Lennon home demo from the Rubber Soul era, recorded in 1965 and apparently unknown outside the Lennon estate until this summer. Producer Giles Martin says Sean Lennon passed along the tape almost casually, as one of those things where somebody says, “Oh, and then there’s this.”Every Gen Xer with boomer parents knows the cheerful announcement that several boxes of “family treasures” have resurfaced, which usually means old tax returns and copies of ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/the-view-from-here","summary":"This week, the Beatles, a band that broke up before Watergate, disco, punk, Star Wars, MTV, and the fall of the Berlin Wall, will release a new song. “Little Girl” is a John Lennon home demo from the Rubber Soul...","tags":["The View from Here","But First ..."],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/7bw8hcbfn0gpv1uj71ggegzz60il-402b9d9a77fe6b731ac5791a18fd9e55.jpg","author":{"name":"Eric Spitznagel"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/eric-spitznagel\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eEric Spitznagel\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Have we reached Peak Beatles?","shorts":false,"banner":"But First ...","category":"The View from Here"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/barry-blitts-sketchbook","title":"Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/barry-blitts-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Barry Blitt's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/8bvhtbb5059q637k9ve5p4sanpph-e60fde9a2761795f02a6a2d2f532cc9a.jpg","date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":null,"subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Barry Blitt's Sketchbook","category":"Sketchbook"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/an-heir-of-defiance","title":"An Heir of Defiance","content_text":"When Fergie Chambers, the wayward son of the Cox media dynasty, decamped to Tunisia at the end of 2023, he must have known he would return to America someday, but this is probably not how he imagined it. He might have pictured himself like Lenin, shuttled across the border in a sealed railroad car at the height of a revolution. Or like Khomeini, summoned from exile in the wake of a triumphant rebellion. Instead, he sits in a Spanish prison, fighting an extradition request that could send him home in handcuffs to face charges of laundering money the U.S. government says went to Hamas. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/an-heir-of-defiance","summary":"When Fergie Chambers, the wayward son of the Cox media dynasty, decamped to Tunisia at the end of 2023, he must have known he would return to America someday, but this is probably not how he imagined it. He might...","tags":["Crime and Scandal","prole play"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/qeb91m4zhx32xg775it7nbg5wg0r-2f5d65094679cc074c80c901ccff7d49.jpg","author":{"name":"Rich Cohen"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/rich-cohen\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eRich Cohen\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"A quarter-billion-dollar fortune helped Fergie Chambers pursue his revolutionary ambitions. Now he’s in a Spanish prison, fighting to keep the country he loathes from bringing him home","shorts":false,"banner":"prole play","category":"Crime and Scandal"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner","title":"Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner","content_text":"How many anni horribiles can a monarch have? King Charles may have believed that 2024, when he and Princess Catherine were diagnosed with cancer, was as bad as it could get. But 2026 has brought little peace. This week alone, Meghan Markle has returned to public life, nipping into Claridge’s for tea with the Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai; Prince Harry has released a MasterClass on grief (in the teaser: “I consider myself a student of grief”); Charles Spencer has continued his press tour for his incendiary memoir Swan Song: Diana, My Sister; and now even the King’s disgraced brother is venturing back into polite society. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner","summary":"How many anni horribiles can a monarch have? King Charles may have believed that 2024, when he and Princess Catherine were diagnosed with cancer, was as bad as it could get. But 2026 has brought little peace. This week alone,...","tags":["The Royal Family","Royal Follies"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/yik6zlgs2kd8hmk5mi2a7ayqxeqg-1bfb99bf20edde85080fb4c24b48d165.jpg","author":{"name":"Ashley Baker"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/ashley-baker\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAshley Baker\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may be a public disgrace—but England’s aristocrats won’t let that spoil their supper plans","shorts":false,"banner":"Royal Follies","category":"The Royal Family"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/welcome-to-slutcon","title":"Welcome to SlutCon","content_text":"It is the first day of the second annual SlutCon, in Berkeley, California. I’m at the Visioning and Erotic Frame session, and a skinny man dressed like a magician has just delivered a lecture on how to speak sexually dominantly. During the workshop that followed, a fellow participant—a straight man—looks deep into my eyes and asks me to fellate him. Both of us break into a smirk and make a joke, which means we have failed. But that’s what the coaching is for. I was the only male member of the press to attend an event that, while it ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/welcome-to-slutcon","summary":"It is the first day of the second annual SlutCon, in Berkeley, California. I’m at the Visioning and Erotic Frame session, and a skinny man dressed like a magician has just delivered a lecture on how to speak sexually dominantly....","tags":["Crime and Scandal","love in a code climate"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/pyk9wwvua6clrpck073sgr4npa0k-4bf318543da0c7bb1c9596c1d60c985c.jpg","author":{"name":"Nicholas Clairmont"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/nicholas-clairmont\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eNicholas Clairmont\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"For the techies engineering our future, talking to actual women can be a daunting prospect. Fortunately, there’s a conference for that","shorts":false,"banner":"love in a code climate","category":"Crime and Scandal"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/he-told-me-i-couldnt-act","title":"“He Told Me I Couldn’t Act!”","content_text":"We took Michael Douglas for granted. I know I did. I mistook the pulpy hot-bloodedness of his best work for the reliably professional Hollywood product the industry used to wholesale every week. But looking back, re-encountering Douglas’s movies through his new memoir, One Helluva Ride—one of the few of its kind that actually needed to be written—I can see clearly that he was their throbbing artery. Through the 80s and 90s, he proved he knew how to pick, for us, the juicy tales of lust, greed, rage. It was his widened producer’s view, focused less on his own ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/he-told-me-i-couldnt-act","summary":"We took Michael Douglas for granted. I know I did. I mistook the pulpy hot-bloodedness of his best work for the reliably professional Hollywood product the industry used to wholesale every week. But looking back, re-encountering Douglas’s movies through his...","tags":["Film and Television","vital attraction"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/csxpqdtxba6omswbu2hn8emhmpon-73c87c20b6f703a4a6c46ab139b91f99.jpg","author":{"name":"Sam Wasson"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/sam-wasson\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eSam Wasson\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Michael Douglas on working with Oliver Stone, what’s missing in Hollywood today, and that scene in \u003cem\u003eFatal Attraction\u003c/em\u003e","shorts":false,"banner":"vital attraction","category":"Film and Television"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/h-mart-the-cookbook","title":"H Mart: The Cookbook","content_text":"As beloved supermarkets go, H Mart is pretty much at the top of the list for many of us. From its start in 1982 ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/h-mart-the-cookbook","summary":"As beloved supermarkets go, H Mart is pretty much at the top of the list for many of us. From its start in 1982 ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/uqkp1rfqii1tfuq4fds1gv62ds2m-18246cc55800750d0e3e7f7bfa6551dc.png","author":{"name":"Jim Kelly"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jim-kelly\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJim Kelly\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"cook","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/diabolique","title":"Diabolique","content_text":"Alfred Hitchcock wanted to buy the rights to Boileau-Narcejac’s 1952 French noir crime novel, Celle Qui N’Était Plus (The Woman ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/diabolique","summary":"Alfred Hitchcock wanted to buy the rights to Boileau-Narcejac’s 1952 French noir crime novel, Celle Qui N’Était Plus (The Woman ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/r6uep6blxtciu1pcsp0j4ra6wjiy-45658254a8b49e39ef8d6e0a93495ae9.png","author":{"name":"Eve Eismann"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/eve-eismann\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eEve Eismann\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"watch","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/barbour-x-deans","title":"Barbour x Dean’s","content_text":"Barbour has taken over Dean’s, the new British joint on Sixth Avenue and West Houston, from October 10 through 14, giving the place ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/barbour-x-deans","summary":"Barbour has taken over Dean’s, the new British joint on Sixth Avenue and West Houston, from October 10 through 14, giving the place ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/xw1wse34mjmche4xnnleg0xzycdj-298f864dd598f8accc4bb06c56592811.png","author":{"name":"Jennifer Noyes"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jennifer-noyes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJennifer Noyes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"dine","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/the-couple-with-the-pitchfork","title":"The Couple With The Pitchfork","content_text":"Surely Grant Wood had no idea in 1930, when he painted a man holding a pitchfork standing next to ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/the-couple-with-the-pitchfork","summary":"Surely Grant Wood had no idea in 1930, when he painted a man holding a pitchfork standing next to ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/rr7tr3h30t4gj2925q4bifs9tstw-206a03595f4413fadc87aaaa1d333ced.png","author":{"name":"Jim Kelly"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jim-kelly\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJim Kelly\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"read","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/welcome-to-fun-city","title":"Welcome to Fun City","content_text":"As the streamers get more consolidated and their film selections get worse—last year, 1973’s The Sting was the oldest available movie ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/welcome-to-fun-city","summary":"As the streamers get more consolidated and their film selections get worse—last year, 1973’s The Sting was the oldest available movie ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/qesrgdqhmyslmcg3r1txmv0y9np4-92eb5ffee6ae2fec3ad71c777531578f.png","author":{"name":"Spike Carter"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/spike-carter\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eSpike Carter\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"buy","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/awesome-etiquette","title":"Awesome Etiquette","content_text":"Is there a proper way to deal with a peel when serving fruit at dinner? According to Emily Post’s great-great-grandchildren: yes ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/awesome-etiquette","summary":"Is there a proper way to deal with a peel when serving fruit at dinner? According to Emily Post’s great-great-grandchildren: yes ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/7er0dm9wuh3soq7dvuftccejn5e1-b2bd717a77da570a5c596af6934cadc7.png","author":{"name":"Gracie Wiener"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/gracie-wiener\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGracie Wiener\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"listen","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/letters-from-scamelot","title":"Letters from Scamelot","content_text":"I blinked and it was October. I blinked again and I couldn’t walk. One of my knees had a gash so deep and gnarly in it, I needed seven stitches. (Which I didn’t get.) What happened was this.Last Tuesday night started off very maturely and responsibly. I began the evening by popping into my literal office—also known as Air Mail HQ, or the publication’s newsstand on Hudson Street—and wow! I was working so backbreakingly hard in the media coal mines, eating canapés and chitchatting with my colleagues, when I ran into John Maher of The New York Times Book Review. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/letters-from-scamelot","summary":"I blinked and it was October. I blinked again and I couldn’t walk. One of my knees had a gash so deep and gnarly in it, I needed seven stitches. (Which I didn’t get.) What happened was this.Last Tuesday night...","tags":["Style","After Hours"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ukl79g6p71k954o0t4ozrakf1ef4-9121caa7e47dd723d4c865d737f02916.png","author":{"name":"Caroline Calloway"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/caroline-calloway\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eCaroline Calloway\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"In her newest party report, Caroline Calloway loses two guys in seven days, survives a drunken gardening accident, and limps her way into a Strokes after-party","shorts":false,"banner":"After Hours","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/fitness/2026/10/the-mounjaro-con","title":"The Mounjaro Con","content_text":"Just this week a friend added herself to the ever-increasing circle of people I know who are “on the pen.” She can’t be more than a size 12 — actually, make that a 10 now — but she had a prescription from an online private clinic for the weight-loss drug Mounjaro. How did she manage it, I asked her. Surely she didn’t look overweight enough to qualify. “I just used A.I. to adjust the photos I sent them, lied about my height and weight on the online B.M.I. calculator, and said my excess weight was causing me to suffer from sleep apnea. It’s quite a hard one to disprove,” she said cheerily. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/fitness/2026/10/the-mounjaro-con","summary":"Just this week a friend added herself to the ever-increasing circle of people I know who are “on the pen.” She can’t be more than a size 12 — actually, make that a 10 now — but she had a...","tags":["Diet \u0026 Fitness","Weighty Issues"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/4hcpxgpmkthdlf21k7pkl949hnb2-ab6f48027661151796b54fdb1bc17351.png","author":{"name":"Charlie Gowans-Eglinton"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/charlie-gowans-eglinton\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eCharlie Gowans-Eglinton\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"They lie about their weight, their height, and their medical condition, sometimes using A.I. to alter their photos—anything it takes to get the shot","shorts":false,"banner":"Weighty Issues","category":"Diet \u0026 Fitness"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/against-your-better-judgment","title":"Against Your Better Judgment","content_text":"I recently gave a friend a salt cellar as a thank-you gift. To be specific, the Il Buco salt cellar, which I knew he would never buy for himself. Not because he wouldn’t like it. I knew exactly what would happen if he saw it in real life: he would admire it, pick it up, consider the price, and begin assembling a perfectly reasonable case for why he did not need to spend $95 housing his salt. He already had somewhere to put the salt. The salt, frankly, had not been asking for more.Then I gave it to him, ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/against-your-better-judgment","summary":"I recently gave a friend a salt cellar as a thank-you gift. To be specific, the Il Buco salt cellar, which I knew he would never buy for himself. Not because he wouldn’t like it. I knew exactly what would...","tags":["Style","Notes on an Aesthetic"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/q0pikuy22uvyh1gdkhvhq8qs1kkl-5f5c9d67b26b6d7361458ad9fa1f273b.jpg","author":{"name":"Jennifer Noyes"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jennifer-noyes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJennifer Noyes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"On the joy of receiving something you could never quite justify buying for yourself","shorts":false,"banner":"Notes on an Aesthetic","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/the-cincinnati-kid","title":"The Cincinnati Kid","content_text":"On a tour of Cincinnati, the novelist John Updike wondered why the city hadn’t erected a statue to America’s sweetheart Doris Day, a native daughter who lit up Hollywood for decades with her Pepsodent smile and plucky vivacity. A regrettable oversight, in Updike’s estimation. When it comes to the prolific, nonpareil nature artist Charley Harper, no one visiting the Queen City today could lodge such a complaint. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/the-cincinnati-kid","summary":"On a tour of Cincinnati, the novelist John Updike wondered why the city hadn’t erected a statue to America’s sweetheart Doris Day, a native daughter who lit up Hollywood for decades with her Pepsodent smile and plucky vivacity. A regrettable...","tags":["Culture","Highlight"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/fi3ow3qcqofc2xbtv25243zq2eht-16009eeba9f156115f906f633f584a7e.jpg","author":{"name":"James Wolcott"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/james-wolcott\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJames Wolcott\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"An exhibition in the Queen City pays homage to the town’s favorite adopted son, Charley Harper, the nature artist who gave birds, bugs, and beasts a midcentury makeover","shorts":false,"banner":"Highlight","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/dress-code/style/2026/10/candidly-speaking","title":"Candidly Speaking","content_text":"Probably the biggest mistake I made during my early years as a glossy-magazine journalist happened in December 1993, when I was a style editor at Harper’s Bazaar. Shortly before Christmas, editor in chief Liz Tilberis handed me the plum assignment of profiling Richard Avedon, for a 13-page spread produced by Wendy Goodman. As we had a three-month lead time for stories back then, the article was pegged to Avedon’s Whitney Museum retrospective “Evidence,” opening in late March 1994.I had only met Avedon once before, in 1990, at the wedding of his son, John, to Maura Moynihan, held at ...","url":"https://airmail.news/dress-code/style/2026/10/candidly-speaking","summary":"Probably the biggest mistake I made during my early years as a glossy-magazine journalist happened in December 1993, when I was a style editor at Harper’s Bazaar. Shortly before Christmas, editor in chief Liz Tilberis handed me the plum assignment...","tags":["Style","In Search of Lost Time"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/4t9ihc6ndv13jtn6i6igf71oaom0-8a615352655d4b2553c4f6bc2edb4865.jpg","author":{"name":"Amy Fine Collins"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/amy-fine-collins\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAmy Fine Collins\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"As Richard Avedon takes center stage in a new book, exhibition, and documentary this fall, two longtime aficionados discuss why his images still loom so large","shorts":false,"banner":"In Search of Lost Time","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/mother-dearest","title":"Mother Dearest","content_text":"It seems that Emmanuel Carrère still smarts from the day his brunette mother came home with her hair dyed in a sculpted blond crop, never for it to be altered again. In his new autobiographical book, Kolkhoz, he describes that fateful day as “perhaps the strangest and most disturbing in my life.” Carrère, now 68, would have been in his mid- to late teens, roughly the same age his mother had been when she experienced her own capillary shock: seeing her beloved father for the very last time, but shorn of the dark mustache she had grown so accustomed to. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/mother-dearest","summary":"It seems that Emmanuel Carrère still smarts from the day his brunette mother came home with her hair dyed in a sculpted blond crop, never for it to be altered again. In his new autobiographical book, Kolkhoz, he describes that...","tags":["Books"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ssve6sslb04qb9fq6f8wk2bg9zve-5b18bd2928c481ba8bfe53cfd476cca3.jpg","author":{"name":"Tobias Grey"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/tobias-grey\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eTobias Grey\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Books","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/the-somerset-cure","title":"The Somerset Cure","content_text":"When discussing creative life in the English countryside, Somerset is often on everyone’s lips. Bruton has become its own cultural orbit, with galleries, exhibitions, and events such as the recent Big Brue festival at Hauser \u0026 Wirth. Meanwhile, the surrounding villages are dotted with destination restaurants, including Osip, a farm-to-table restaurant, Holm, and Margot Henderson’s Three Horseshoes. Glastonbury has been drawing the spiritually curious for centuries, while its namesake music festival attracts hundreds of thousands each summer. And then there is the wellness scene—an increasingly dense network of yoga teachers, holistic healers, and therapists who seem to materialize wherever ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10/the-somerset-cure","summary":"When discussing creative life in the English countryside, Somerset is often on everyone’s lips. Bruton has become its own cultural orbit, with galleries, exhibitions, and events such as the recent Big Brue festival at Hauser \u0026 Wirth. Meanwhile, the surrounding...","tags":["Travel","View With a Room"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ijycfxf5uk3mb1tb52sdkzy6wjbb-3df6d263b0849123112b44d229a87859.jpg","author":{"name":"Issy von Simson"},"date_published":"2026-10-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 10, 2026","date":"2026-10-10","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-10"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/issy-von-simson\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eIssy \u003cem\u003evon\u003c/em\u003e Simson\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"A former \u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c/em\u003e editor and his Texan wife have turned an 18th-century Gothic rectory into a wellness-focused country-house escape—complete with ice baths, blood analysis, and a gong","shorts":false,"banner":"View With a Room","category":"Travel"}}]}