{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"April 25, 2026 – Air Mail","description":"Welcome to Air Mail Issue number 354.","favicon":"https://static.airmail.news/assets/icons/apple-touch-icon.png","home_page_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25","feed_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25.json","items":[{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/the-view-from-here","title":"The View from Here","content_text":"On July 3, 1776, the Founding Father and future president John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, that the signing of the Declaration of Independence “ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.” To that list, Donald Trump has added an IndyCar race through the streets of Washington, mixed-martial-arts fighting on the South Lawn in front of the White House (following a weigh-in at the Lincoln Memorial), and, he hopes, the beginnings of a triumphal arch by the Potomac to eclipse the one that Napoleon ordered erected in ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/the-view-from-here","summary":"On July 3, 1776, the Founding Father and future president John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, that the signing of the Declaration of Independence “ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires...","tags":["The View from Here","But First ..."],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/0w080ni5o7bo2uvlpltsbldqblqi-60c7e2aad52dde48509015f84c38ed8b.jpg","author":{"name":"Peter Coy"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/peter-coy\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003ePeter Coy\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"America, you may have heard, is turning 250 this year. But the planned festivities are more late Roman Empire than youngish republic","shorts":false,"banner":"But First ...","category":"The View from Here"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/barry-blitts-sketchbook","title":"Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/barry-blitts-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Barry Blitt's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/n515awzzuaohigp0aj2m1cd3eq1y-e7b339ef92ad0eb26b8cf8a643cc60c6.jpg","author":{"name":"Barry Blitt"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_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/2026-4-25/the-curious-case-of-chandra-levy","title":"The Curious Case of Chandra Levy","content_text":"The name Chandra Levy is now mostly forgotten, or prompts questions which begin: “Wasn’t she … ?” But in the summer of 2001, she was the most famous missing person in America.Levy arrived in Washington, D.C., the previous September and began a six-month internship with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. She was 23, from the midsize city of Modesto, in California’s Central Valley. Bright and ambitious, she breezed through San Francisco State University in three years and was in her final semester of the master’s program in public administration at the University of Southern California.In mid-April 2001, Levy informed her landlord she was going home at the end of the month. Her parents—Bob, an oncologist, and Susan, an artist—made plans to join her in ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/the-curious-case-of-chandra-levy","summary":"The name Chandra Levy is now mostly forgotten, or prompts questions which begin: “Wasn’t she … ?” But in the summer of 2001, she was the most famous missing person in America.Levy arrived in Washington, D.C., the previous September and...","tags":["Crime and Scandal","Capitol Crime"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/g37pr683q29b3dbecgsg7b183hii-037642fb39caa7cc57ed585c87f2666b.png","author":{"name":"Joseph Rodota"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/joseph-rodota\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJoseph Rodota\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Twenty-five years ago, her disappearance dominated the news—until 9/11 diverted the nation’s attention. Few tuned in for the twists and turns that followed","shorts":false,"banner":"Capitol Crime","category":"Crime and Scandal"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/the-strange-afterlife-of-queen-elizabeth-ii","title":"The Strange Afterlife of Queen Elizabeth II","content_text":"After the death of Queen Elizabeth II, there were those who felt the world had turned into a different place, somewhere scarier and less dependable. The registrar at the Royal College of Psychiatrists spoke of people feeling “shocked, anxious, or fearful about changes they don’t feel prepared for, or deep feelings of loss and sadness”. A YouGov poll concluded that 44 percent of adult Britons had shed a tear at the news: 55 percent of women and 32 percent of men.You would have to have been over 100 years old to remember a world without her. She was famous from the moment she was born and made the cover of ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/the-strange-afterlife-of-queen-elizabeth-ii","summary":"After the death of Queen Elizabeth II, there were those who felt the world had turned into a different place, somewhere scarier and less dependable. The registrar at the Royal College of Psychiatrists spoke of people feeling “shocked, anxious, or...","tags":["The Royal Family","Royal Follies"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/v3rjp5ym5x59vqpfq5qdwoht2i91-01fe8c3018b8a1bab30b4566a1fcc374.jpg","author":{"name":"Craig Brown"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/craig-brown\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eCraig Brown\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Four years after her death, the Queen has faded from the public consciousness with surprising speed. But as the code of silence loosens and archives open, a sharper portrait is beginning to emerge","shorts":false,"banner":"Royal Follies","category":"The Royal Family"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/the-passion-of-jerry-seinfeld","title":"The Passion of Jerry Seinfeld","content_text":"Like serious collectors of many things, car people’s taste often changes as they age. A good case in point would be comedian, entertainer, and legendary gearhead Jerry Seinfeld. Known as a consummate collector of rare, blue-chip Porsches, he’s seen his automotive interests and fixations broaden with time. Air Mail’s automotive columnist Jamie Kitman caught up with him recently to discuss how he became a collector and the recent sea changes in his enthusiasm.Jamie Kitman: Your Porsche collection is known as perhaps the best this side of the car-maker’s own factory museum in Zuffenhausen.Jerry Seinfeld: It was at one time. At its peak, it really ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/the-passion-of-jerry-seinfeld","summary":"Like serious collectors of many things, car people’s taste often changes as they age. A good case in point would be comedian, entertainer, and legendary gearhead Jerry Seinfeld. Known as a consummate collector of rare, blue-chip Porsches, he’s seen his...","tags":["Design","Driven to Distraction"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/s6e3s1vckv9fymr7mbd912sov0ke-f0ecd2009a7fea4197cc5963127c2807.jpg","author":{"name":"Jamie Kitman"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jamie-kitman\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJamie Kitman\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The legendary comedian on his car addiction, why he’ll never go electric, and how most everything else in life is a grave disappointment","shorts":false,"banner":"Driven to Distraction","category":"Design"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/club-sandwich-confidential","title":"Club-Sandwich Confidential","content_text":"You might think Mario Carbone has better things to do than hop on a call from Palermo, Sicily, to talk about club sandwiches, but you’d be wrong. As Carbone declared recently, “I’m a lover of the club.” Turns out he’s not alone. Dine out in New York these days and you’ll notice that the club sandwich—that vestige of hotel room service and diners everywhere—is having a bit of a moment.I’ll be the first to admit that I tend to notice things I’m on the lookout for. And when I see a club sandwich on a menu, I tend ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/club-sandwich-confidential","summary":"You might think Mario Carbone has better things to do than hop on a call from Palermo, Sicily, to talk about club sandwiches, but you’d be wrong. As Carbone declared recently, “I’m a lover of the club.” Turns out he’s...","tags":["Food and Drink","Food"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/blzdykmaoh89lpmlk0qzmlo3dy4t-0cc175b9c0f1b6a831c399e269772661.jpg","author":{"name":"Adam Rapoport"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/adam-rapoport\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAdam Rapoport\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The trusty club is having a moment. An inside look at how some of the most exclusive restaurants in the city are riffing on a classic","shorts":false,"banner":"Food","category":"Food and Drink"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/daisies","title":"Daisies","content_text":"Věra Chytilová’s Daisies is a New Wave slumber party: mischievous, candy-colored, and a little dangerous. Released in 1966 when ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/daisies","summary":"Věra Chytilová’s Daisies is a New Wave slumber party: mischievous, candy-colored, and a little dangerous. Released in 1966 when ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/t1j0qeh1tixvtrivnhtndt6e02u5-1dab986a427865511e71db2660b401ca.png","author":{"name":"Eve Eismann"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_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/2026-4-25/clare-v-x-wallshoppe","title":"Clare V. x Wallshoppe","content_text":"Before Emily in Paris, there was Clare Vivier in Saint-Calais. After graduating from the University","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/clare-v-x-wallshoppe","summary":"Before Emily in Paris, there was Clare Vivier in Saint-Calais. After graduating from the University","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/z5aov2hl4g3p0yl041mfha2mqbs8-415290769594460e2e485922904f345d.png","author":{"name":"Jeanne Malle"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jeanne-malle\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJeanne Malle\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"decorate","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/ai-for-good","title":"AI for Good","content_text":"Whether you think artificial intelligence is our savior (Hello, Elon!) or Satan itself (Hello to—you know who you are!), Josh Tyrangiel ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/ai-for-good","summary":"Whether you think artificial intelligence is our savior (Hello, Elon!) or Satan itself (Hello to—you know who you are!), Josh Tyrangiel ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/y6eozerl5ptxe2bg1fs6bgi4ughe-29853d351cbf31817cd4587b26a4421a.png","author":{"name":"Jim Kelly"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_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/2026-4-25/roku-gin","title":"Roku Gin","content_text":"With cherry blossoms in bloom and warm weather here to stay, it seems New York City has come alive again. This moment may be ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/roku-gin","summary":"With cherry blossoms in bloom and warm weather here to stay, it seems New York City has come alive again. This moment may be ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/11o1d5qejqgk9gnwk85r097jm2a5-3dd64932e8aa9d45229ec2fd456df719.png","author":{"name":"Maggie Turner"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/maggie-turner\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMaggie Turner\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"sip","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/the-metropolitan-review","title":"The Metropolitan Review","content_text":"In 1959, Elizabeth Hardwick surveyed the critical scene and judged it “a puddle of treacle.” Today, that ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/the-metropolitan-review","summary":"In 1959, Elizabeth Hardwick surveyed the critical scene and judged it “a puddle of treacle.” Today, that ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ewirkv00w0ms9unn42fjo9rrpuwr-a0fb3b6fe378971e9214ead16ce61d9c.png","author":{"name":"Ash Carter"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/ash-carter\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAsh Carter\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"read","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/moncler","title":"Moncler","content_text":"“Have a Puffy Summer,” says Moncler, and honestly, who’s arguing? The Italian house is now embracing glossy inflatable flamingos ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/moncler","summary":"“Have a Puffy Summer,” says Moncler, and honestly, who’s arguing? The Italian house is now embracing glossy inflatable flamingos ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ihbp7ejt183ot9bktjgtd77luxyt-18246cc55800750d0e3e7f7bfa6551dc.png","author":{"name":"Jennifer Noyes"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jennifer-noyes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJennifer Noyes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"wear","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/let-there-be-no-brunch","title":"Let There Be No Brunch!","content_text":"Mother’s Day is the hardest holiday to pin down. It arrives in a haze of soft-focus gratitude with the implication that motherhood is a sacred calling or a naturally radiant condition. Either way, we are told, the correct celebration is brunch.The lived version of motherhood is less photogenic. It deals in hard logistics. From the beginning there is an immediate and non-negotiable re-distribution of everything you once held dear: sleep, silence, the concept of a thought completed in one sitting.Your day begins with the arrival of a small person. Loudly, in my experience. Frequently damp. Impossibly adhesive. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/let-there-be-no-brunch","summary":"Mother’s Day is the hardest holiday to pin down. It arrives in a haze of soft-focus gratitude with the implication that motherhood is a sacred calling or a naturally radiant condition. Either way, we are told, the correct celebration is...","tags":["Style","Notes on an Aesthetic"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/pnq5mjdjc73i6t22pacqxfdo3moz-7096d191c222a0f5fe197f5c13a6078f.jpg","author":{"name":"Jennifer Noyes"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jennifer-noyes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJennifer Noyes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Don’t dare bring flowers this Mother’s Day—what mothers really want is recognition for all they give up","shorts":false,"banner":"Notes on an Aesthetic","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/the-filthy-rich-love-to-fish","title":"The Filthy Rich Love to Fish","content_text":"Can you name the largest private landowner in Iceland? You might be surprised to learn it’s the British billionaire and owner of Manchester United, Sir Jim Ratcliffe. Why? Because the 400,000 acres he acquired between 2016 and 2017 for just under $54 million include some of the finest fly-fishing rivers in the world.Polo and shooting may long have been regarded as the sports of kings, but fishing is fast encroaching on their sovereign territory. Historically, it was a pastime of the aristocracy and well-to-do. In Victorian Britain, wealthy Londoners would decamp to Scotland by train on a Thursday night and install themselves in what are euphemistically called “lodges” but are, in fact, vast properties devoted to fishing. King Charles III has long been a keen fisherman. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/the-filthy-rich-love-to-fish","summary":"Can you name the largest private landowner in Iceland? You might be surprised to learn it’s the British billionaire and owner of Manchester United, Sir Jim Ratcliffe. Why? Because the 400,000 acres he acquired between 2016 and 2017 for just...","tags":["Modern Times","Casting Call"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/pt9u1jxfh7fbd54wn4wumweer3ah-8a0a3800c0415cf8f3a965677b0775f1.jpg","author":{"name":"Tom Chamberlin"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/tom-chamberlin\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eTom Chamberlin\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Once a gentlemanly pastime, fly-fishing has become the latest luxury arms race, with billionaires paying ever more for access to far-flung rivers and that rarest commodity of all—solitude","shorts":false,"banner":"Casting Call","category":"Modern Times"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/where-bob-dylan-met-the-beatles","title":"Where Bob Dylan Met the Beatles","content_text":"Bob Dylan and the Beatles were closer than even their most ardent fans may realize. The relationship between the American folk singer and the chart-topping English band formed and flourished well out of public view, in the sanctuary-like suites of (mostly) luxury hotels. Herewith, a guide to the places where they talked, laughed, drank, smoked, and shared advance recordings of their landmark albums.The Delmonico Hotel, New YorkA suite on the sixth floor of this 32-story hotel was the site of the first and best-known Dylan-Beatles encounter. It started one night in 1964 and ended at dawn.The man who arranged it was Al Aronowitz, a journalist in Dylan’s circle who had written two insightful stories on the Beatles for ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/where-bob-dylan-met-the-beatles","summary":"Bob Dylan and the Beatles were closer than even their most ardent fans may realize. The relationship between the American folk singer and the chart-topping English band formed and flourished well out of public view, in the sanctuary-like suites of...","tags":["Books","suite harmony"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ozvbdbfolfnyvbhs6hbvbksal8d5-4d2d0947ea5cffd51256fc692067676a.jpg","author":{"name":"Jim Windolf"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jim-windolf\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJim Windolf\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"From the Savoy in London to an airport hotel in Queens, the little-known story of the rooms where the musical giants forged a surprisingly close bond","shorts":false,"banner":"suite harmony","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/russias-greatest-love-machine","title":"Russia’s Greatest Love Machine","content_text":"In the dying days of the Russian Empire, highborn ladies would willingly cut the dirty fingernails of the peasant Grigori Rasputin and then sew the clippings onto their dresses like sacred talismans. He would, on occasion, take six women to a bathhouse, then order them to strip naked and wash him. “If I say, ‘Bathe my feet,’ they’ll do as I say and then drink the water.”At any other time, Rasputin’s mesmeric power might have been harmless, yet another example of a country’s thirst for the occult. Among his conquests, however, was the Czarina Alexandra, and that rendered ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/russias-greatest-love-machine","summary":"In the dying days of the Russian Empire, highborn ladies would willingly cut the dirty fingernails of the peasant Grigori Rasputin and then sew the clippings onto their dresses like sacred talismans. He would, on occasion, take six women to...","tags":["Books"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/wyiwpit0o79sm9gdfsndpkteviy3-c43682b65e34c68240419cd67034c952.jpg","author":{"name":"Gerard DeGroot"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/gerard-degroot\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGerard D\u003cem\u003ee\u003c/em\u003eGroot\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Books","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/marie-charlotte-garin","title":"Marie-Charlotte Garin","content_text":"Like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Marie-Charlotte Garin has her roots in environmental activism and was elected to national office in her 20s. And, like Ocasio-Cortez, she exploded onto the political scene seemingly overnight. In the few years since her 2022 election to France’s National Assembly, where she serves as the Lyon deputy, Garin has been the driving force behind the country’s adoption of a consent-based definition of rape and, as of this month, abolishing the concept of sex as a marital duty.Though not as relentlessly visible on social media as Ocasio-Cortez, Garin has been no less deliberate in cultivating her ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/marie-charlotte-garin","summary":"Like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Marie-Charlotte Garin has her roots in environmental activism and was elected to national office in her 20s. And, like Ocasio-Cortez, she exploded onto the political scene seemingly overnight. In the few years since her 2022 election to...","tags":["Politics","Close-up"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/924wtm5ddrmea5sc0tam1aavuhkj-0a72f1f83832dcf0c4952e497b0464ae.jpg","author":{"name":"Monique El-Faizy"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/monique-el-faizy\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMonique El-Faizy\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"France has its very own A.O.C.—and, at 30, she’s pushing forward some of her country’s most contentious gender issues","shorts":false,"banner":"Close-up","category":"Politics"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/to-italy-with-love","title":"To Italy with Love","content_text":"Italy is the country of the Amalfi Coast, pizza, and pasta; the Vatican, Venice, and Portofino; Berlusconi, mozzarella, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But every dish, monument, and landscape is layered with history and complexities. “Let’s get one thing straight,” the Italian essayist Beppe Severgnini wrote. “Your Italy and our Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages, such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, lemon trees, white wine, and raven-haired girls. Italia, on the other hand, is a maze. It’s alluring, but complicated.”Since founding the online publication Italy ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/to-italy-with-love","summary":"Italy is the country of the Amalfi Coast, pizza, and pasta; the Vatican, Venice, and Portofino; Berlusconi, mozzarella, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But every dish, monument, and landscape is layered with history and complexities. “Let’s get one thing...","tags":["Books","Open Book"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/sqv4ux9j4kxvdmwvojomu00lexbf-b223aefff05070a4b5c86af07a575ad8.jpg","author":{"name":"Elena Clavarino"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/elena-clavarino\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eElena Clavarino\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"A new coffee-table book offers a visual antidote to the country’s overtourism crisis, capturing its most untouched corners through the eyes of local photographers","shorts":false,"banner":"Open Book","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/flushed-with-pride","title":"Flushed with Pride","content_text":"On Christmas Eve 2018, the public toilets at London Victoria Station—the city’s busiest—closed for a $5.5 million renovation. When they reopened the following April, the 40-cent entrance fee was gone. In its place: free access for the roughly 80 million travelers who pass through the station each year, plus a distinctly grander experience.Designed by architectural firm Landolt + Brown—which took inspiration from the bathrooms at Claridge’s and the Savoy—the washrooms now feature bespoke, precast terrazzo wash troughs; an interior greenhouse; and a plaque proclaiming, Loo of the Year Awards 2020, Overall Grade Awarded: Diamond.The plaque raises an obvious question: How, exactly, is such an award bestowed? Do judges act like the ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/flushed-with-pride","summary":"On Christmas Eve 2018, the public toilets at London Victoria Station—the city’s busiest—closed for a $5.5 million renovation. When they reopened the following April, the 40-cent entrance fee was gone. In its place: free access for the roughly 80 million...","tags":["Humor","King Johns"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/idubkxg815e169ooh8ncw8it1s74-bce1ba06b8145e72498e1f535260f785.jpg","author":{"name":"Spike Carter"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/spike-carter\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eSpike Carter\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The Loo of the Year Award is the most coveted prize in the world of British public washrooms. But only the finest privies are declared Diamond grade","shorts":false,"banner":"King Johns","category":"Humor"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/off-the-wall","title":"Off the Wall","content_text":"Many of the world’s pioneering camera companies were located in Germany, where brands such as Voigtländer, Zeiss, Goerz, and Leica were all established before the First World War. But it wasn’t until the creative chaos of the Weimar Republic that Germans really figured out what to do with their cameras. That period gave the still-emerging discipline of photography the giants August Sander, creator of analytical but humane portraits, and Albert Renger-Patzsch, who could make flowers look like animals and factory floors look like forests. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/off-the-wall","summary":"Many of the world’s pioneering camera companies were located in Germany, where brands such as Voigtländer, Zeiss, Goerz, and Leica were all established before the First World War. But it wasn’t until the creative chaos of the Weimar Republic that...","tags":["Culture","Highlight"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/t5uuhdpp2oe99vbsvhh2r4dlgyco-e1b621f0715d1e22d3f9b131a2664ca1.jpg","author":{"name":"J.S. Marcus"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/j-s-marcus\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJ.S. Marcus\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"An exhibition in Cologne collects the work of seven photographers from both sides of the Berlin Wall, offering a fresh look into the years between its construction and its collapse","shorts":false,"banner":"Highlight","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/the-other-congo","title":"The Other Congo","content_text":"If your friends went “gorilla tracking,” it’s highly likely they did so in Rwanda. There, mountain gorillas roam the misty Virunga Mountains, a volcanic range shared with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or D.R.C., and Uganda. Rwanda has done an extraordinary job of promoting them—pushing eco-tourism to fund conservation, welcoming splashy lodges, and serving as the backdrop for the 1988 biopic Gorillas in the Mist, about American primatologist and conservationist Dian Fossey.But draw a line west, over the D.R.C. almost to the Atlantic coast, and you reach the Republic of the Congo, where another great gorilla ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/the-other-congo","summary":"If your friends went “gorilla tracking,” it’s highly likely they did so in Rwanda. There, mountain gorillas roam the misty Virunga Mountains, a volcanic range shared with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or D.R.C., and Uganda. Rwanda has done...","tags":["Travel"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/85yj8es64mf45jzvi70x9ixdcpow-a14a5da0f3de4cf49b89968fa9230157.jpg","author":{"name":"Mary Holland"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/mary-holland\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMary Holland\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"For years, Rwanda has owned gorilla tourism, while the Republic of the Congo gets mistaken for its dangerous eastern neighbor. The result is one of the most extraordinary wildlife experiences on earth","shorts":false,"banner":"Travel","category":"Travel"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/marcellus-halls-sketchbook","title":"Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25/marcellus-halls-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Marcellus Hall's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ubl8b7mzmrht7u1ag0fricjzjap8-ca1c2a6012e545237e27f4648927469e.jpg","author":{"name":"Marcellus Hall"},"date_published":"2026-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"April 25, 2026","date":"2026-04-25","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-4-25"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/marcellus-hall\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMarcellus Hall\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Marcellus Hall's Sketchbook","category":"Sketchbook"}}]}