{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"November 7, 2026 – Air Mail","description":"Welcome to Air Mail Issue number 382.","favicon":"https://static.airmail.news/assets/icons/apple-touch-icon.png","home_page_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7","feed_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7.json","items":[{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/the-view-from-here","title":"The View from Here","content_text":"The most important number from Tuesday isn’t 255 (House seats that will be held by Democrats come January) or 1 (Democratic senators from Texas). It’s the number of people seriously disputing the result: that number rounds to zero. No rallies to stop the steal. No mob at a statehouse. The fraud claims died on arrival. Donald Trump spent the fall calling the polls “rigged,” but ultimately he accepted the outcome—which, of course, was everybody’s fault but his.For 10 years we were told the machinery was broken. On Tuesday it worked. Next came the inevitable personnel changes. (White House ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/the-view-from-here","summary":"The most important number from Tuesday isn’t 255 (House seats that will be held by Democrats come January) or 1 (Democratic senators from Texas). It’s the number of people seriously disputing the result: that number rounds to zero. No rallies...","tags":["The View from Here","But First ..."],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/vna4y0gxxf25murdfm0yg1aitw74-85e05744f15eb0743213dbed1a8b8537.jpg","author":{"name":"Anthony Scaramucci"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/anthony-scaramucci\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAnthony Scaramucci\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"MAGA was an overhyped product that failed to work as advertised. On Tuesday, the American electorate demanded a refund","shorts":false,"banner":"But First ...","category":"The View from Here"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/barry-blitts-sketchbook","title":"Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/barry-blitts-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Barry Blitt's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/romzi16sbvi6s18mm0plu8r4fkmk-a72caeed6cbd23b94431c7962b1ef375.jpg","author":{"name":"Barry Blitt"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_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/2026-11-7/succession-italian-style","title":"Succession, Italian–Style","content_text":"Behind the sleek sunglasses and effortless glamor inextricably linked with the Ray-Ban name lies a messy family feud that is anything but stylish. “My father gave us everything, but not love,” declared Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, one of the heirs to the family empire in a podcast interview with Italian rapper Fedez that invited comparisons with the TV drama Succession.As well as the revelations about his relationship with his father, the eccentric 31-year-old billionaire also boasted of sleeping with more than 2,000 women and owning two yachts, while joking that he had debts of around $1.1 billion. But ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/succession-italian-style","summary":"Behind the sleek sunglasses and effortless glamor inextricably linked with the Ray-Ban name lies a messy family feud that is anything but stylish. “My father gave us everything, but not love,” declared Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, one of the heirs...","tags":["Crime and Scandal","throwing shades"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/60xeg2cmw3xs4dxfvyh89hh060io-e7badce204c976fd849b1eca9938ccd9.jpg","author":{"name":"Tom Haynes"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/tom-haynes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eTom Haynes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"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.","shorts":false,"banner":"throwing shades","category":"Crime and Scandal"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/tinker-tailor-soldier-nerd","title":"Tinker Tailor Soldier Nerd","content_text":"Last week, news broke that the leather-jacketed C.E.O. of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, had been spending an awful lot of time with Alice Huang, a Chinese national and the face of Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data-center company. According to The New York Times, citing U.S. officials, she was also a Chinese-intelligence asset.The U.S. spooks were already concerned that Megaspeed was trying to circumvent U.S. export controls by smuggling Nvidia’s restricted semiconductor technology into China. While investigating the company, they discovered the relationship between Huang and Huang (no relation), and alarm bells began to ring, not least because of the Nvidia chief’s close connections to Donald Trump. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/tinker-tailor-soldier-nerd","summary":"Last week, news broke that the leather-jacketed C.E.O. of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, had been spending an awful lot of time with Alice Huang, a Chinese national and the face of Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data-center company. According to The New York...","tags":["Modern Times","tokens of the heart"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ep2li3tro0d1g30hcpm6qjoii5tl-db88f3e4c575903f11a789b9691fd09c.jpg","author":{"name":"Jennifer Gould"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jennifer-gould\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJennifer Gould\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Has there ever been a group more defenseless against attractive female spies than the men building artificial intelligence?","shorts":false,"banner":"tokens of the heart","category":"Modern Times"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/the-way-to-say-good-bye","title":"The Way to Say Good-Bye","content_text":"One hot summer day in 2001, I drove down to the modest duplex Leonard Cohen shared with his daughter, Lorca, in a beat-up, largely forgotten part of L.A. When I pulled up on the quiet street of simple homes, it was to find Cohen sitting on the sidewalk in a three-piece suit in the sweltering afternoon. In front of him sat an overturned computer in the gutter—“Yesterday’s drama,” he said, with characteristic wryness. Then he led me past the little house, into the backyard, and up a flight of stairs, and I found myself inside a makeshift recording studio that he’d dubbed, with scrupulous irony, “Small Mercies.” ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/the-way-to-say-good-bye","summary":"One hot summer day in 2001, I drove down to the modest duplex Leonard Cohen shared with his daughter, Lorca, in a beat-up, largely forgotten part of L.A. When I pulled up on the quiet street of simple homes, it...","tags":["Culture","Gloom service"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/g0zhwzu0gxjwygrf82vgg4yovyic-91af0f7e07d4db0785556664448d7aba.jpg","author":{"name":"Pico Iyer"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/pico-iyer\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003ePico Iyer\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Why Leonard Cohen still haunts so many, 10 years after his death","shorts":false,"banner":"Gloom service","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/the-champagne-that-dare-not-speak-its-name","title":"The Champagne That Dare Not Speak Its Name","content_text":"“In victory I deserve it,” Winston Churchill said of champagne. “In defeat I need it.” Churchill had many existential concerns during World War II, but one of his smaller worries was that the German occupation of France had interrupted supplies of his beloved Pol Roger.Today he could find consolation closer to home. For the past two years, the British have been able to buy a sparkling wine with a distinctly French pedigree, produced not far from Churchill’s rural home in Kent. With a little help from climate change, and a great deal from the champagne house Taittinger, the age of English champagne—except it can’t legally be called that—has dawned. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/the-champagne-that-dare-not-speak-its-name","summary":"“In victory I deserve it,” Winston Churchill said of champagne. “In defeat I need it.” Churchill had many existential concerns during World War II, but one of his smaller worries was that the German occupation of France had interrupted supplies...","tags":["Food and Drink","what a corker!"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/8b8u12oq1wv7bibzp13iwvz901uw-8a14bec22b4022e23a9d85116fda88dc.jpg","author":{"name":"Jonathan Margolis"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jonathan-margolis\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJonathan Margolis\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Domaine Evremond offers French fizz with English roots—just don’t call it the c-word","shorts":false,"banner":"what a corker!","category":"Food and Drink"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/santa-maria-novella","title":"Santa Maria Novella","content_text":"Sixty years ago this week, the Arno flooded Florence and thousands of young volunteers from Italy and abroad descended on the city ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/santa-maria-novella","summary":"Sixty years ago this week, the Arno flooded Florence and thousands of young volunteers from Italy and abroad descended on the city ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/zc29kr4ixf445nzrmaacu6uze1hf-29853d351cbf31817cd4587b26a4421a.png","author":{"name":"Jennifer Noyes"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jennifer-noyes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJennifer Noyes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"spritz","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/the-last-metro","title":"The Last Metro","content_text":"Set in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, The Last Metro—directed by François Truffaut four years before his death ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/the-last-metro","summary":"Set in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, The Last Metro—directed by François Truffaut four years before his death ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/r9mxmd1zs24qsfxwe7c83dby80t9-b79d2096c66248cad58c309283bcd8d4.png","author":{"name":"Eve Eismann"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_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/2026-11-7/the-intangibles","title":"The Intangibles","content_text":"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 ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/the-intangibles","summary":"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 ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/2xk58g8ru78pwnyjpftqvx21hpyv-18246cc55800750d0e3e7f7bfa6551dc.png","author":{"name":"Jim Kelly"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_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/2026-11-7/boll-branch","title":"Boll \u0026 Branch","content_text":"Boll \u0026 Branch might be best known for its buttery-soft bedsheets, but this year’s Holiday Shop collection makes all-things-cozy ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/boll-branch","summary":"Boll \u0026 Branch might be best known for its buttery-soft bedsheets, but this year’s Holiday Shop collection makes all-things-cozy ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/zhseu28olx70guj3lskvlvhe63w0-3dd64932e8aa9d45229ec2fd456df719.png","author":{"name":"Jimena Elmufdi"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jimena-elmufdi\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJimena Elmufdi\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"sleep","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/elie-tahari","title":"Elie Tahari","content_text":"Launched in 1977, Elie Tahari has dressed sophisticated women from the age of disco—his first runway show was held at Studio 54 ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/elie-tahari","summary":"Launched in 1977, Elie Tahari has dressed sophisticated women from the age of disco—his first runway show was held at Studio 54 ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/8biradjbtrf2qrdr7p1isfi5c8bo-4f4b914d6db35e19101ff003c4e7ea3a.png","author":{"name":"Gracie Wiener"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/gracie-wiener\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGracie Wiener\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"shop","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/ordinary-people","title":"Ordinary People","content_text":"Today, Ordinary People is probably best remembered for Robert Redford’s 1980 Academy Award–winning directorial debut starring ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/ordinary-people","summary":"Today, Ordinary People is probably best remembered for Robert Redford’s 1980 Academy Award–winning directorial debut starring ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/eddap49f4qn0abejd003npioztqr-d013c7496d443690fdfc60d28217b02e.png","author":{"name":"Paulina Prosnitz"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_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/2026-11-7/all-the-worlds-a-cage","title":"All the World’s a Cage","content_text":"Robert Icke’s cunning adaptation of The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s 2007 Academy Award–winning exploration of the terrors and compromises of life under the Stasi’s East German thumb, is a daring exception to what is becoming the boulevard formula of adapting hit films for the stage—where the public is essentially paying not to play, to encounter what they already know. Icke, who is a generational talent, finds new ways to take the audience on a journey to the extraordinary.Here, in the play’s bold ironic first beat, Icke grabs the audience by its lapels. A tall, austere ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/all-the-worlds-a-cage","summary":"Robert Icke’s cunning adaptation of The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s 2007 Academy Award–winning exploration of the terrors and compromises of life under the Stasi’s East German thumb, is a daring exception to what is becoming the boulevard...","tags":["Culture","I Spy"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/j3kzl1qyuw8y22pm1jkjlbsnu73i-9cfb88d1fee7d019267c1e4573c0caf1.jpg","author":{"name":"John Lahr"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/john-lahr\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJohn Lahr\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Starring Keira Knightley, the stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning \u003cem\u003eThe Lives of Others \u003c/em\u003edelivers something more than another expensive rerun","shorts":false,"banner":"I Spy","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/im-talkin-here","title":"I’m Talkin’ Here!","content_text":"I’ve been looking forward to Dustin Hoffman’s memoir since before I learned he was writing it. One good reason: he has given as many terrific performances in as many terrific movies as any American movie star, past or present. Name two Hollywood films from the 1960s that hold up better than The Graduate (1967) and Midnight Cowboy (1969)—and these were just the first two pictures Hoffman starred in, unless you count Un Dollaro per 7 Vigliacchi, a slapstick Italian-Spanish crime caper shot in 1966 that was the actor’s true first lead role (opposite Caesar Romero, no less) but which received only a belated release in the U.S. in 1969 as ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/im-talkin-here","summary":"I’ve been looking forward to Dustin Hoffman’s memoir since before I learned he was writing it. One good reason: he has given as many terrific performances in as many terrific movies as any American movie star, past or present. Name...","tags":["Books"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/8dkbl5i87iaw2rf9n9r4trgzvfqh-1755d8aec0ffdc2615b6cd6730b74ae3.jpg","author":{"name":"Bruce Handy"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/bruce-handy\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eBruce Handy\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Books","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/letters-from-scamelot","title":"Letters from Scamelot","content_text":"Greetings from baby’s first private-jet flight! This is NOT the airplane I mentioned at the end of my last dispatch, nor am I with the people I thought I’d be with—nay, we’re not even headed to Vienna. But before I get ahead of myself, which I am so often wont to do, let’s zoom back to the Drift party I went to the night before I did not get on a rich man’s plane to Austria. You know what? Let’s start even before that so you can understand why I ended up at that party in the first place. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/letters-from-scamelot","summary":"Greetings from baby’s first private-jet flight! This is NOT the airplane I mentioned at the end of my last dispatch, nor am I with the people I thought I’d be with—nay, we’re not even headed to Vienna. But before I...","tags":["Style","After Hours"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ll4s5ihve3jrbkxi5iywj2zzp6l8-79a31af4e03f8b75d14a320e8707f264.jpg","author":{"name":"Caroline Calloway"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_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 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","shorts":false,"banner":"After Hours","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/leo-reich","title":"Leo Reich","content_text":"When asked what he does for a living, Leo Reich rarely gives strangers the whole truth. “Usually I’ll say ‘writer,’” says the comedian, “because it sounds fancier and makes me seem like a serious person.” It’s not exactly a lie: Reich spent nearly four years writing It Gets Worse, the A24 comedy series he also created and stars in, which premiered yesterday. Before the show’s release, Reich told me, “It’s a weird period of limbo. It feels hubristic to talk about it in any detail before anyone has said they like it.” Lucky for him, The Guardian has since deemed Reich “a rare star and the future of TV comedy.” ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/leo-reich","summary":"When asked what he does for a living, Leo Reich rarely gives strangers the whole truth. “Usually I’ll say ‘writer,’” says the comedian, “because it sounds fancier and makes me seem like a serious person.” It’s not exactly a lie:...","tags":["Film and Television","Close-up"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/f1wzk0xo4fbgpiuuwa4mz7yljt6c-3cf3aa821d3885c2f96dde7cac5f578e.jpg","author":{"name":"Maggie Turner"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/maggie-turner\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMaggie Turner\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"In his new series, \u003cem\u003eIt Gets Worse,\u003c/em\u003e 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","shorts":false,"banner":"Close-up","category":"Film and Television"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/to-catch-two-thieves","title":"To Catch Two Thieves","content_text":"Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, all four nights of it, has four roles for baritones. A decade ago, in San Francisco, Brian Mulligan tested the waters as Donner, the god of thunder in Das Rheingold, which inaugurates the cycle, and as the feckless kinglet Gunther in Götterdämmerung, which brings it to a close. Since the pandemic, proceeding in stages, he has accomplished the quantum leap to Alberich and Wotan, the mighty opposites whose power struggle drives Wagner’s whole machine.”The way I roll,” the strapping Irish-American baritone says, “when I’m performing a character, I’m completely monogamous. In my mind, no other exists.” That said, at the matinee of ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/to-catch-two-thieves","summary":"Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, all four nights of it, has four roles for baritones. A decade ago, in San Francisco, Brian Mulligan tested the waters as Donner, the god of thunder in Das Rheingold, which inaugurates the cycle, and...","tags":["Culture","Highlight"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/rtu3833hhvjz1ivhbug8fm5ymmbo-7be6444764a8499dabdab9f8bd1a86c3.jpg","author":{"name":"Matthew Gurewitsch"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/matthew-gurewitsch\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMatthew Gurewitsch\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Whether as Alberich or Wotan, Brian Mulligan has a lock on the “Ring”","shorts":false,"banner":"Highlight","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/a-trip-down-memory-road","title":"A Trip Down Memory Road","content_text":"“Enjoy every single moment of the road,” the hotelier Thierry Teyssier says to me, “because when you leave this vacation, you won’t be able to come back.”In 2015, Teyssier opened the aptly named Memory Road, a weeklong private drive across the south of Morocco. The journey runs roughly 750 miles, from the Atlantic coast to the first amber dunes of the Sahara. There are five stops along the way, beginning at La Maison des Arganiers, outside Agadir, and ending at La Maison de l’Oasis, in the palm grove of Tighmert. There is one catch—the Memory Road doesn’t take repeat guests. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/a-trip-down-memory-road","summary":"“Enjoy every single moment of the road,” the hotelier Thierry Teyssier says to me, “because when you leave this vacation, you won’t be able to come back.”In 2015, Teyssier opened the aptly named Memory Road, a weeklong private drive across...","tags":["Travel","View With a Room"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/7pgza2smhb9crqvcf3nj3ue26x4h-5e40574d9651e2f52ac5a74cc039fd23.jpg","author":{"name":"Jeanne Malle"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jeanne-malle\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJeanne Malle\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"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","shorts":false,"banner":"View With a Room","category":"Travel"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/hair/2026/11/brushes-with-greatness","title":"Brushes with Greatness","content_text":"John Frieda didn’t have to do much more than stand around looking handsome, because he sure was that. And what a head of hair! If you could dream up the man best suited to his profession by appearance alone, it would have been Frieda. Warren Beatty in Shampoo only played the part.And yet Frieda accomplished so much in his lifetime as a hairstylist, a salon owner at the finest addresses in London, New York, and L.A., and the co-founder of a category-creating product line that made him enormously wealthy. And he did it all with quiet grace.For much of his life, Frieda, who died on Tuesday at ...","url":"https://airmail.news/hair/2026/11/brushes-with-greatness","summary":"John Frieda didn’t have to do much more than stand around looking handsome, because he sure was that. And what a head of hair! If you could dream up the man best suited to his profession by appearance alone, it...","tags":["Hair","Great Lives"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/6dvlxz7wyiy329n1iihnj2a58vxl-27e1b5db421a1a5af098eb4cdcb252a9.png","author":{"name":"Linda Wells"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/linda-wells\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eLinda Wells\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"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","shorts":false,"banner":"Great Lives","category":"Hair"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/hilary-knights-sketchbook","title":"Hilary Knight’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7/hilary-knights-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Hilary Knight's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/5p0hohp60tb7cszdhhmyqln0wuzy-756ea7ac5ceee20c68ad0e70d1938f9c.jpeg","author":{"name":"Hilary Knight"},"date_published":"2026-11-07T06:00:00.000-05:00","_issue":{"name":"November 7, 2026","date":"2026-11-07","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-11-7"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/hilary-knight\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eHilary Knight\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Hilary Knight's Sketchbook","category":"Sketchbook"}}]}