{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"November 14, 2026 – Air Mail","description":"Welcome to Air Mail Issue number 383.","favicon":"https://static.airmail.news/assets/icons/apple-touch-icon.png","home_page_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14","feed_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14.json","items":[{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/the-view-from-here","title":"The View from Here","content_text":"Some years ago, strange circumstances resulted in my having dinner in Beijing with a low-level official from the Ministry of State Security, China’s equivalent of the K.G.B. He was an unimpressive man, drunken and piggish, and he bemoaned the unpopularity of his department. “Everyone hates us,” he complained, but then got on to what was clearly a favorite topic. Did you know, he asked me, that the K.G.B. had “schools to train beautiful women in sex?” Why did the M.S.S. not have anything like that?That might seem like an odd grievance. The popular image of Chinese espionage is ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/the-view-from-here","summary":"Some years ago, strange circumstances resulted in my having dinner in Beijing with a low-level official from the Ministry of State Security, China’s equivalent of the K.G.B. He was an unimpressive man, drunken and piggish, and he bemoaned the unpopularity...","tags":["The View from Here","But First ..."],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/bos4g38ji4raoqjnt1vipaxcw1ke-e1aeafea01f43dd85ba8c10f09dbf32b.jpg","author":{"name":"James Palmer"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/james-palmer\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJames Palmer\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"What was in it for Alice Huang?","shorts":false,"banner":"But First ...","category":"The View from Here"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/barry-blitts-sketchbook","title":"Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/barry-blitts-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Barry Blitt's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/fp61rn9jfrp1e30e2t9jhaprkh9p-a07ffe44b3fdebb4c055381712b42c02.jpg","author":{"name":"Barry Blitt"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/barry-blitt\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eBarry Blitt\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Barry Blitt's Sketchbook","category":"Sketchbook"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/in-and-out-of-the-doghouse","title":"In and Out of the Doghouse","content_text":"When Brigitte Bardot’s body was lowered into a seaside grave in St. Tropez in January, it seemed the drama of her life might finally be laid to rest, too. That wouldn’t have been her style.”Bardot’s death last December, from breast cancer at 91, has unleashed a wave of rancor and recrimination among her closest associates. Much of it focuses on Bernard d’Ormale, her widower, who now finds himself evicted from the house the couple shared for more than 30 years amid a bitter dispute with Bardot’s animal-rights charity. “They’ve stolen Brigitte [from me],” he tells Air Mail. “They’re a bunch of thugs. It’s scandalous.” ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/in-and-out-of-the-doghouse","summary":"When Brigitte Bardot’s body was lowered into a seaside grave in St. Tropez in January, it seemed the drama of her life might finally be laid to rest, too. That wouldn’t have been her style.”Bardot’s death last December, from breast...","tags":["News","the long good-bye"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/y2wzv8w9pe80trecsazd8aljpbvi-1473928f50e4a70b983a73a21e21dec6.jpg","author":{"name":"Richard Assheton"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/richard-assheton\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eRichard Assheton\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Brigitte Bardot’s will provided for her beloved animals—but her husband is still fighting over the scraps","shorts":false,"banner":"the long good-bye","category":"News"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/gaslighting-katy-perry","title":"Gaslighting Katy Perry","content_text":"When Katy Perry performed at the Blenheim Festival in July, she invited fans to play a game with her. The singer, who was married to Russell Brand for 14 months from October 2010, used a giant tablet to suggest scenarios that she and the Oxfordshire audience could act out, as cameras captured their reactions. When asked how they would react to “seeing their ex,” Perry joked: “I hope my ex isn’t here. He should be in jail.”Perry, 42, who is now in a relationship with Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada, has spoken relatively little about her former husband. She and Brand first met in June 2009 when she recorded a cameo for ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/gaslighting-katy-perry","summary":"When Katy Perry performed at the Blenheim Festival in July, she invited fans to play a game with her. The singer, who was married to Russell Brand for 14 months from October 2010, used a giant tablet to suggest scenarios...","tags":["Crime and Scandal","brand damage"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/jbs8xsmzl5umnk15cpz6lb2b96f6-9431417212c5e724d5c7ac7c796ab228.jpg","author":{"name":"Rosamund Urwin and Charlotte Wace"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/rosamund-urwin\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eRosamund Urwin\u003c/a\u003e \u003cem class=\"type-overline type-overline-10\"\u003eand\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/charlotte-wace\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eCharlotte Wace\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"With Russell Brand now in jail, friends and former staff describe how he controlled and belittled his then wife as her stardom eclipsed his own","shorts":false,"banner":"brand damage","category":"Crime and Scandal"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/plot-twist","title":"Plot Twist","content_text":"In the third episode of Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, an ailing Jackie Kennedy Onassis sits before a fireplace in her Fifth Avenue apartment. She reaches into a box and extracts a letter from Marlon Brando, with whom she had a brief affair in 1964, according to an early draft of the actor’s memoir. She takes a drag from her cigarette, reads the letter, then tosses it into the fire.”What are you doing?,” John junior asks.”I don’t need my personal correspondence memorialized in the Smithsonian,” Jackie sighs. “Unlike you,” she adds, “I don’t like to put things off until the last minute.” ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/plot-twist","summary":"In the third episode of Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, an ailing Jackie Kennedy Onassis sits before a fireplace in her Fifth Avenue apartment. She reaches into a box and extracts a letter from Marlon Brando,...","tags":["Crime and Scandal","love among the tombstones"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/o0o2mqqe0mq94y7at4god3lq7y7h-5e935b8149eca7b2819e5d15f47c6115.jpg","author":{"name":"Joseph Rodota"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/joseph-rodota\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJoseph Rodota\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Jack Warnecke designed J.F.K.’s gravesite—then romanced Jackie","shorts":false,"banner":"love among the tombstones","category":"Crime and Scandal"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/cold-comfort","title":"Cold Comfort","content_text":"The other night, I was sitting at Frenchette, watching the bartender and barback. The place was packed, the New York Dolls were blasting, and the drink orders were piling up. And yet, the two of them were doing this kind of seamless pas de deux—no words, no bumping into each other, just pure efficiency.The barback set glasses atop the hand-hammered zinc bar, filling each with a scoop of pebble ice (you know, the kind you’d get with your Coke in a styrofoam cup at your local pizza joint). At the same time, the bartender added square cubes to ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/cold-comfort","summary":"The other night, I was sitting at Frenchette, watching the bartender and barback. The place was packed, the New York Dolls were blasting, and the drink orders were piling up. And yet, the two of them were doing this kind...","tags":["Food and Drink","Service Included"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/r54n2egfl8lq9n6y3012rbvjanm0-0b446e342a8f4b12fc277f74e89216ad.jpg","author":{"name":"Adam Rapoport"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/adam-rapoport\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAdam Rapoport\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"You don’t need your own Kold-Draft machine or walk-in freezer to appreciate the magic of ice in all its many forms","shorts":false,"banner":"Service Included","category":"Food and Drink"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/the-meetings-of-anna","title":"The Meetings of Anna","content_text":"Intimate, melancholy, and contemplative, The Meetings of Anna is a cinematic study of one woman’s ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/the-meetings-of-anna","summary":"Intimate, melancholy, and contemplative, The Meetings of Anna is a cinematic study of one woman’s ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/3xo0b9o4ts74sm9pfwg0xs7ucr7k-a70f9e38ff015afaa9ab0aacabee2e13.png","author":{"name":"Eve Eismann"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_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/2026-11-14/how-to-cook-a-wolf","title":"How To Cook A Wolf","content_text":"M. F. K. Fisher was not much of a student, and attended Occidental College for one year before dropping out in 1929 to move ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/how-to-cook-a-wolf","summary":"M. F. K. Fisher was not much of a student, and attended Occidental College for one year before dropping out in 1929 to move ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/4hm2teedwyect4yp5x82v99awmfu-4eecaf0abf09f6eddce1304c34a9e16b.png","author":{"name":"Jim Kelly"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_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/2026-11-14/corner-boy","title":"Corner Boy","content_text":"At the tender age of 18, Nik Cohn ravaged the Beatles as a music critic for Queen magazine. In 1969, at 23, he published ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/corner-boy","summary":"At the tender age of 18, Nik Cohn ravaged the Beatles as a music critic for Queen magazine. In 1969, at 23, he published ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ulo9x3r3j8xqxflzqu409nxdjwtb-92e02ccdb7a4978b0e742b9f6bd7c438.png","author":{"name":"Paulina Prosnitz"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/paulina-prosnitz\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003ePaulina Prosnitz\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"read","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/st-regis","title":"St. Regis","content_text":"A stone’s throw from the Danube sits a Belle Époque monument, hailing from the Austro-Hungarian golden age and designed by two ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/st-regis","summary":"A stone’s throw from the Danube sits a Belle Époque monument, hailing from the Austro-Hungarian golden age and designed by two ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/wrzsjyhtjl8bakxkky21yf4s6zaa-298f864dd598f8accc4bb06c56592811.png","author":{"name":"Elena Clavarino"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/elena-clavarino\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eElena Clavarino\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"stay","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/balenciaga","title":"Balenciaga","content_text":"A rugged and rebellious carryall of the aughts, Balenciaga’s City Bag holds strong cultural capital while firmly remaining an emblem ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/balenciaga","summary":"A rugged and rebellious carryall of the aughts, Balenciaga’s City Bag holds strong cultural capital while firmly remaining an emblem ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/31lvuidwjrpae683y2d0l2fra81g-27a72faf9d8c6e5278840d8b20b6c615.png","author":{"name":"Maggie Turner"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/maggie-turner\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMaggie Turner\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"carry","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/pendleton-x-thuma","title":"Pendleton x Thuma","content_text":"Thuma made its name on bed frames that assemble in minutes, require no tools, and look considerably more expensive than they are ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/pendleton-x-thuma","summary":"Thuma made its name on bed frames that assemble in minutes, require no tools, and look considerably more expensive than they are ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/fnm9t22de5mw7jkybqeiea8vybch-5d9d0c4c9e7f37fb17d1f32e942f5e6b.png","author":{"name":"Jennifer Noyes"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jennifer-noyes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJennifer Noyes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"decorate","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/to-have-and-to-hoard","title":"To Have and to Hoard","content_text":"I have a weakness for silver objects. Not silverware, exactly, because that would suggest a degree of practicality, but silver things. Little boxes, strange dishes, tiny containers whose original purpose I have never established and probably never will. I have more than any reasonable person needs, which is a phrase I find myself using with increasing frequency. In an antiques shop in Paris, I came across another small silver object in the shape of a very large walnut. I had no idea what it was or where it would go. I bought it anyway. The dealer was delighted. I suspect he understood the situation better than I did. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/to-have-and-to-hoard","summary":"I have a weakness for silver objects. Not silverware, exactly, because that would suggest a degree of practicality, but silver things. Little boxes, strange dishes, tiny containers whose original purpose I have never established and probably never will. I have...","tags":["Style","Notes on an Aesthetic"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/iyvtp4n2tktunxnjtdknrnbiyqdy-e6a1dde601caa451313e16d832a687d7.jpg","author":{"name":"Jennifer Noyes"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jennifer-noyes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJennifer Noyes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"When does a carefully curated collection become an unruly obsession?","shorts":false,"banner":"Notes on an Aesthetic","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/in-too-deep","title":"In Too Deep","content_text":"The greatest trick that the director Alan J. Pakula ever pulled was convincing the world that Bob Woodward looked like Robert Redford. The second was portraying “Deep Throat,” Woodward’s super-secret source for the reporting that would contribute to President Richard Nixon’s downfall, as having had altruistic motives.In 1970, Woodward was a 26-year-old navy lieutenant waiting outside the White House Situation Room to deliver a package of classified documents to National-Security Advisor Henry Kissinger when, as he relates in Secrets: A Reporter’s Memoir, “a tall, smartly dressed man with perfectly combed, slicked-back gray hair came in and sat down ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/in-too-deep","summary":"The greatest trick that the director Alan J. Pakula ever pulled was convincing the world that Bob Woodward looked like Robert Redford. The second was portraying “Deep Throat,” Woodward’s super-secret source for the reporting that would contribute to President Richard...","tags":["Books"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/w7wbed51s2tfxqats2lv7zeg39zs-6493a40e7f04b04a07f67f4955bc3e56.jpg","author":{"name":"James Kirchick"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/james-kirchick\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJames Kirchick\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Books","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/from-nerano-with-love","title":"From Nerano, with Love","content_text":"“The most beautiful things are the hardest to reach,” says Leonardo Bottone, the manager at Hotel Palazzo Murat, in Positano. He is talking about Lo Scoglio da Tommaso—the restaurant lounging in the neighboring bay of Nerano on a large wooden pier atop a boulder in the sea, as if it simply took a break from swimming to sun itself on the rocks one day and has stayed put ever since. There are no direct ferry services from the main port towns to Nerano, stuck in its little nook on the southern coast of the Sorrento Peninsula. And the road leading down to it zigzags precipitously until it dead-ends somewhere above the water. So you really need a boat (or, better yet, a friend’s) to get there. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/from-nerano-with-love","summary":"“The most beautiful things are the hardest to reach,” says Leonardo Bottone, the manager at Hotel Palazzo Murat, in Positano. He is talking about Lo Scoglio da Tommaso—the restaurant lounging in the neighboring bay of Nerano on a large wooden...","tags":["Food and Drink","La Dolce Vita"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/7so5y5tvf88z5pf4jxdnokp268aq-142657eeb0476011e9972b2c7eeefcc6.jpg","author":{"name":"Joseph Bullmore"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/joseph-bullmore\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJoseph Bullmore\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"For 70 years, Lo Scoglio has lured movie stars, billionaires, and locals to a tiny bay on the Amalfi Coast. Now the legendary restaurant is coming to Manhattan, with hundreds of fried zucchini in tow","shorts":false,"banner":"La Dolce Vita","category":"Food and Drink"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/the-bogdanovich-diaries","title":"The Bogdanovich Diaries","content_text":"I had noticed [Larry] McMurtry’s novel on a paperback rack in a local drugstore. I thought the title sounded like a movie I should make. I picked it up and read the back cover blurbs that said the story dealt with teenagers growing up in a small Texas town. That doesn’t interest me at all was my initial reaction, and I put the book back on the rack. A couple of weeks later, Sal Mineo came over and gave me a copy of the same paperback. He said he had wanted to play one of the leads in a film ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/the-bogdanovich-diaries","summary":"I had noticed [Larry] McMurtry’s novel on a paperback rack in a local drugstore. I thought the title sounded like a movie I should make. I picked it up and read the back cover blurbs that said the story dealt...","tags":["Film and Television","Hollywood Lives"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/avn4h42bxopw6clw9krp8pygelg8-0f90649a959c304cc65ebd08401d800a.jpg","author":{"name":"Peter Bogdanovich"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/peter-bogdanovich\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003ePeter Bogdanovich\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Script sessions with Larry McMurtry, advice from Orson Welles, and an on-set affair with Cybill Shepherd: a director’s-eye view of \u003cem\u003eThe Last Picture Show\u003c/em\u003e","shorts":false,"banner":"Hollywood Lives","category":"Film and Television"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/hitlers-grinning-executioners","title":"Hitler’s Grinning Executioners","content_text":"Early one morning in September 2007, playwright and director Moisés Kaufman was reading The New York Times when a photograph of a group of beaming young men and women in matching uniforms standing beside an accordion player caught his eye. “SS officers and death camp staff at leisure near Auschwitz, one of 116 newly discovered snapshots from a Nazi officer’s scrapbook donated to the Holocaust museum in Washington,” read the caption.”I knew that I always wanted to write a play about the Holocaust,” Kaufman says, “but I always felt like everything has been said.” Kaufman was born in ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/hitlers-grinning-executioners","summary":"Early one morning in September 2007, playwright and director Moisés Kaufman was reading The New York Times when a photograph of a group of beaming young men and women in matching uniforms standing beside an accordion player caught his eye....","tags":["Culture","Arts and Letters"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/i8hon2igr38xfieq5ypuu4yi291n-d3279e49d4d6e2809776e866769b7a38.jpg","author":{"name":"Johanna Berkman"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/johanna-berkman\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJohanna Berkman\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The co-creators of \u003cem\u003eThe Laramie Project\u003c/em\u003e are back with a new play, based on the true story of a salvaged Nazi photo album and the Holocaust Memorial Museum archivists who identified the cheerful SS officers in its pages","shorts":false,"banner":"Arts and Letters","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/a-tale-of-one-city","title":"A Tale of One City","content_text":"Forged by Greeks from the weapons of Persians vanquished in 479 B.C., the famed Serpent Column consisted of three bronze snakes twisted tight like rope, 26 feet tall. At the top, balanced on their heads, was a gold tripod and bowl that held offerings to Apollo’s sanctuary in Delphi. The tripod was stolen around 100 years later. What was left of the column was moved by the emperor Constantine the Great to Constantinople in 324 A.D. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/a-tale-of-one-city","summary":"Forged by Greeks from the weapons of Persians vanquished in 479 B.C., the famed Serpent Column consisted of three bronze snakes twisted tight like rope, 26 feet tall. At the top, balanced on their heads, was a gold tripod and...","tags":["Culture","Highlight"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/gyc9se2af8dz1piza2bujlysg5ru-dd43d92b3797cd05f55bf87ec695b423.jpg","author":{"name":"Harry Seymour"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/harry-seymour\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eHarry Seymour\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"An exhibition in London explores the rival grandeur of the Byzantine and Ottoman cultures in the city now known as Istanbul","shorts":false,"banner":"Highlight","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/morgan-maher","title":"Morgan Maher","content_text":"In July, I walked into a Red Hook studio where 50s music was blaring and a couple of guys were wheeling around in chairs, waiting. Over in hair and makeup sat the singer Clairo. I’d seen her a few days earlier, for drinks at KGB Bar, to celebrate the birthday of our shared friend, the photographer Morgan Maher.Thirty-one years prior, Maher was born in New Market, Maryland. She left home in her late teens to study photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design, before moving to New York to pursue a career in fashion. There was a stint at ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/morgan-maher","summary":"In July, I walked into a Red Hook studio where 50s music was blaring and a couple of guys were wheeling around in chairs, waiting. Over in hair and makeup sat the singer Clairo. I’d seen her a few days...","tags":["Style","Close-up"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/729upu77a0ky2av4q1bpjys4zp6z-116240582a4594d4a8f33a4280458e5c.png","author":{"name":"Amanda Lee Burkett"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/amanda-lee-burkett\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAmanda Lee Burkett\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Five years into her photography career, the 31-year-old has become a darling of young stars such as Clairo, Rachel Sennott, and Emily Ratajkowski","shorts":false,"banner":"Close-up","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/the-anti-bora-bora","title":"The Anti-Bora-Bora","content_text":"On my first day at Vahine Private Island, in French Polynesia’s Society Islands, 20 miles from Bora-Bora, I saw more blacktip reef sharks than guests.”Are you sure it’s safe to snorkel in here?,” I asked Raymonde Tinirauarri Ganivet, the general manager, who was showing us around. Among the property’s authentic Polynesian touches, it turned out, was a “small nursery” for suspiciously docile sharks.”Don’t worry, they won’t hurt you,” she said.”They’re vegetarians,” my friend Marett joked.We had arrived that morning by boat from Raiatea, the second largest of the Society Islands. Bleary with jet lag, we ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/the-anti-bora-bora","summary":"On my first day at Vahine Private Island, in French Polynesia’s Society Islands, 20 miles from Bora-Bora, I saw more blacktip reef sharks than guests.”Are you sure it’s safe to snorkel in here?,” I asked Raymonde Tinirauarri Ganivet, the general...","tags":["Travel","View With a Room"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/09s1b9kkag1bern7980n5c7o21c7-d1a9c0544c055c82e4e110e4bb82136a.jpg","author":{"name":"Amy Synnott"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/amy-synnott\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAmy Synnott\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Forget large-scale resorts. With nine bungalows and an in-house shark nursery, a newly reopened private island reveals a quieter, wilder side of French Polynesia","shorts":false,"banner":"View With a Room","category":"Travel"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/danielle-kosanns-sketchbook","title":"Danielle Kosann’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14/danielle-kosanns-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Danielle Kosann's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/yvl2ieypih1vlfrgijqudqodchhd-7a56a3dd23cee77684a91e83e49f1bbb.jpeg","author":{"name":"Danielle Kosann"},"date_published":"2026-11-14T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 14, 2026","date":"2026-11-14","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-14"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/danielle-kosann\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eDanielle Kosann\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Danielle Kosann's Sketchbook","category":"Sketchbook"}}]}