November 7, 2026 – Air Mail

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME

After Nvidia boss Jensen Huang was linked to an alleged Chinese-intelligence asset, tech firms are training their socially awkward programmers to deal with a terrifying new threat: attractive female spies …

THE MOOCH DOES THE MATH

American voters have had enough of MAGA. Republican primary voters haven’t. Anthony Scaramucci on why his old party could be out of power for years …

MAKING A SPECTACLE

Leonardo Del Vecchio rose from a Milanese orphanage to build the Ray-Ban empire. Now his playboy heir is publicly feuding with the company’s chief executive over control of the $61 billion family fortune …

FULL-GROAN MAN

Leonard Cohen lived as a Zen monk and sang like a rabbi on the backstreets of Jerusalem. Pico Iyer remembers the soulful, self-effacing man behind “Hallelujah,” a decade after his death …

A CHAMPAGNE COUP

With a little help from climate change and a great deal from the French champagne house Taittinger, the English county of Kent is poised to become the Napa of Britain. Is the age of English bubbly upon us?

TOOTSIE TELLS ALL

From fighting with Meryl Streep during Kramer vs. Kramer to vomiting on Jon Voight’s boots in Midnight Cowboy, Dustin Hoffman’s Look at Me is a deliciously spiky look back at his six-decade career …

THE WALLS HAVE EARS

The Lives of Others, the Oscar-winning thriller about a Stasi officer spying on two artists in East Berlin, has arrived onstage. John Lahr reviews Robert Icke’s cunning adaptation, starring Keira Knightley …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Caroline Calloway, Air Mail’s party correspondent, escapes being trafficked by warlords … a Moroccan road trip you can only take once … the Gen Z comedian behind It Gets Worse, featuring Lena Dunham and Andrew Scott … Ordinary People, the novel that led to Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning film, turns 50 … Linda Wells remembers John Frieda, hairstylist to Lady Di, Jackie O, and the world …

Issue No. 382

The View from Here MAGA was an overhyped product that failed to work as advertised. On Tuesday, the American electorate demanded a refund

By Anthony Scaramucci

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Succession, Italian–Style He has two yachts, jokes of being a billion dollars in debt, and claims to have slept with 2,000 women. Now the playboy heir to the Ray-Ban fortune is at war with his late father’s handpicked C.E.O.

By Tom Haynes

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHOP CHOPPISH SHOP

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The Weekly Waffle

A positively addictive word game to go with your morning coffee

Tinker Tailor Soldier Nerd Has there ever been a group more defenseless against attractive female spies than the men building artificial intelligence?

By Jennifer Gould

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The Way to Say Good-Bye Why Leonard Cohen still haunts so many, 10 years after his death

By Pico Iyer

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Cool, Calm and Collected

An argument for the long haul: well-made clothes, good watches, and objects for the home that prove the best purchases are rarely the newest, just the ones you reach for year after year

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Photo: Everett Collection (Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair)

Jessica Diehl’s Favorite Things From fashion’s biggest names to the little things that make a difference, an expert’s guide to what catches the eye

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The Champagne That Dare Not Speak Its Name Domaine Evremond offers French fizz with English roots—just don’t call it the c-word

By Jonathan Margolis

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spritz Santa Maria Novella Sixty years ago this week, the Arno flooded Florence and thousands of young volunteers from Italy and abroad descended on the city…

watch The Last Metro Set in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, The Last Metro—directed by François Truffaut four years before his death…

read The Intangibles Yes, yes, I know many folks are transfixed by a certain hockey love story now filming its second season, but The Intangibles is a better…

sleep Boll & Branch Boll & Branch might be best known for its buttery-soft bedsheets, but this year’s Holiday Shop collection makes all-things-cozy…

shop Elie Tahari Launched in 1977, Elie Tahari has dressed sophisticated women from the age of disco—his first runway show was held at Studio 54…

read Ordinary People Today, Ordinary People is probably best remembered for Robert Redford’s 1980 Academy Award–winning directorial debut starring…

spritz Santa Maria Novella Sixty years ago this week, the Arno flooded Florence and thousands of young volunteers from Italy and abroad descended on the city…

watch The Last Metro Set in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, The Last Metro—directed by François Truffaut four years before his death…

read The Intangibles Yes, yes, I know many folks are transfixed by a certain hockey love story now filming its second season, but The Intangibles is a better…

sleep Boll & Branch Boll & Branch might be best known for its buttery-soft bedsheets, but this year’s Holiday Shop collection makes all-things-cozy…

shop Elie Tahari Launched in 1977, Elie Tahari has dressed sophisticated women from the age of disco—his first runway show was held at Studio 54…

read Ordinary People Today, Ordinary People is probably best remembered for Robert Redford’s 1980 Academy Award–winning directorial debut starring…

All the World’s a Cage Starring Keira Knightley, the stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others delivers something more than another expensive rerun

By John Lahr

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In New York

Metrograph welcomes the fall season with a series featuring Todd Haynes’s Far from Heaven and Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata…

In Paris

With works by Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, and Marc Chagall, an exhibition in Montmartre celebrates the circus and the artists it inspired…

In Theaters

In Bruges director Martin McDonagh returns with a dark comedy starring John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, and Parker Posey…

In New York

After a London run that earned her an Olivier Award, Rosamund Pike reprises her role in Inter Alia for the play’s Broadway debut…

In New York

Yoshitomo Nara’s first major solo exhibition in the city in nearly a decade features recent paintings, drawings, and sculptures…

In Chicago

A major show, which originated at the Guggenheim, presents 70 key artworks by Rashid Johnson—paintings, sculptures, film, and video…

Bruce Handy On

Look at Me

by Dustin Hoffman with Ariel Levy

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Letters from Scamelot In her latest party report, Caroline Calloway renounces a private-jet journey, spends a humbling night at a motel in Virginia, and leaves a black-tie gala with an unofficial party favor

By Caroline Calloway

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Leo Reich In his new series, It Gets Worse, the 28-year-old British comedian joins Lena Dunham, Andrew Scott, and Zadie Smith to capture Gen Z’s embarrassing attempt at the mid–20s

By Maggie Turner

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To Catch Two Thieves Whether as Alberich or Wotan, Brian Mulligan has a lock on the “Ring”

By Matthew Gurewitsch

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A Trip Down Memory Road On this weeklong drive from Morocco’s Agadir to the edge of the Sahara, there are no menus, no crowds, and one unusual rule: guests can make the journey just a single time

By Jeanne Malle

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Brushes with Greatness He touched Princess Diana, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Madonna, while giving regular people a simple solution to a common annoyance. John Frieda was a great hairstylist—and so much more

By Linda Wells

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In 2019, Hilary Knight, the larger-than-life *Eloise at the Plaza* illustrator, imagined himself on his centennial: “India fantasy: Hilary, at 100, adopted by Rajasthani Gypsies, with a mango lassi on his knee.” Well, he’s now reached that milestone—Knight turned 100 this week. Tee up the lassis!

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The View from Here MAGA was an overhyped product that failed to work as advertised. On Tuesday, the American electorate demanded a refund

Succession, Italian–Style He has two yachts, jokes of being a billion dollars in debt, and claims to have slept with 2,000 women. Now the playboy heir to the Ray-Ban fortune is at war with his late father’s handpicked C.E.O.

The Weekly Waffle

A positively addictive word game to go with your morning coffee

Tinker Tailor Soldier Nerd Has there ever been a group more defenseless against attractive female spies than the men building artificial intelligence?

The Way to Say Good-Bye Why Leonard Cohen still haunts so many, 10 years after his death

An argument for the long haul: well-made clothes, good watches, and objects for the home that prove the best purchases are rarely the newest, just the ones you reach for year after year

Jessica Diehl’s Favorite Things From fashion’s biggest names to the little things that make a difference, an expert’s guide to what catches the eye

The Champagne That Dare Not Speak Its Name Domaine Evremond offers French fizz with English roots—just don’t call it the c-word

All the World’s a Cage Starring Keira Knightley, the stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others delivers something more than another expensive rerun

Letters from Scamelot In her latest party report, Caroline Calloway renounces a private-jet journey, spends a humbling night at a motel in Virginia, and leaves a black-tie gala with an unofficial party favor

Leo Reich In his new series, It Gets Worse, the 28-year-old British comedian joins Lena Dunham, Andrew Scott, and Zadie Smith to capture Gen Z’s embarrassing attempt at the mid–20s

To Catch Two Thieves Whether as Alberich or Wotan, Brian Mulligan has a lock on the “Ring”

A Trip Down Memory Road On this weeklong drive from Morocco’s Agadir to the edge of the Sahara, there are no menus, no crowds, and one unusual rule: guests can make the journey just a single time

Brushes with Greatness He touched Princess Diana, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Madonna, while giving regular people a simple solution to a common annoyance. John Frieda was a great hairstylist—and so much more

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Editor, Air Mail LOOK

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Technology

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Business Development Director

European Sales Director

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