{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"June 13, 2026 – Air Mail","description":"Welcome to Air Mail Issue number 361.","favicon":"https://static.airmail.news/assets/icons/apple-touch-icon.png","home_page_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13","feed_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13.json","items":[{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/the-view-from-here","title":"The View from Here","content_text":"On a crisp night last fall, I found myself sitting next to the Italian writer Vincenzo Latronico for a celebratory dinner at the Waverly Inn. Normally the picture of sprezzatura, he had been reduced to a chain-smoking bundle of nerves during the cocktail hour and appetizer course. When the time finally came for him to accept Air Mail’s inaugural Tom Wolfe Prize for Fiction, he was, well, a mess.Yet he pulled himself together, delivering a speech about how his novel Perfection, a canny skewering of the millennial experience, had been, in large part, inspired by Wolfe’s keen eye for social signifiers (in addition to Georges Perec’s 1965 novel, ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/the-view-from-here","summary":"On a crisp night last fall, I found myself sitting next to the Italian writer Vincenzo Latronico for a celebratory dinner at the Waverly Inn. Normally the picture of sprezzatura, he had been reduced to a chain-smoking bundle of nerves...","tags":["Literary Prize","But First ..."],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/1yi9mdqzgj7r5fhpgvq1ek63zw46-dc489c6bcafcef78b0051869f1a7344c.jpg","author":{"name":"Julia Vitale"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/julia-vitale\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJulia Vitale\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Announcing the return of AIR MAIL’s Tom Wolfe Prizes for Fiction \u0026amp; Reportage!!!!!!!","shorts":false,"banner":"But First ...","category":"Literary Prize"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/barry-blitts-sketchbook","title":"Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/barry-blitts-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Barry Blitt's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/qmd9qxaq58092n7g9kmiqe3musl5-1852baf6e225aaff64f37ce2491775df.jpg","author":{"name":"Barry Blitt"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_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/2026-6-13/invasion-of-the-bodyworkers","title":"Invasion of the Bodyworkers","content_text":"The first thing to understand about Six Senses Hudson Valley, the proposed luxury destination that InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has spent three and a half years seeking approval for on a 236-acre estate in the town of Clinton, New York, is that it is not a hotel. It is, the developer’s lawyers insist, a conference center. At various hearings, it has also been described as an agrarian retreat, a wellness hub, and even a camp. But as far as Warren Replansky, an attorney representing a group of locals opposed to the project, is concerned, “if it walks like a hotel and quacks like a hotel, it’s a hotel.” ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/invasion-of-the-bodyworkers","summary":"The first thing to understand about Six Senses Hudson Valley, the proposed luxury destination that InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has spent three and a half years seeking approval for on a 236-acre estate in the town of Clinton, New York,...","tags":["Crime and Scandal","permission impossible"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/kyg4tm9wcpaukujymi39e01ffc4g-005480c8a6a0357d17cff2e8eb7e060d.jpg","author":{"name":"Jonathan Butler"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jonathan-butler\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJonathan Butler\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The planned 236-acre Six Senses luxury wellness retreat in the Hudson Valley has many locals feeling very un-Zen","shorts":false,"banner":"permission impossible","category":"Crime and Scandal"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/with-lifestyle-porn-meghan","title":"With Lifestyle Porn, Meghan","content_text":"This time there are 11 of them. That’s 11 private pictures shared in a personal post on the Duchess of Sussex’s Instagram. There’s one of Prince Harry and seven-year-old Prince Archie (facing away from camera) playing with a giant football. There’s one of some eggs in a nest, half hidden among some foliage. There’s one of Princess Lilibet (neck to waist only) wearing a white T-shirt featuring a line drawing of Beyoncé and the words “B is for Beyoncé”.There was a time when we had to wait several weeks to sneak a peek of Meghan’s Montecito life but ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/with-lifestyle-porn-meghan","summary":"This time there are 11 of them. That’s 11 private pictures shared in a personal post on the Duchess of Sussex’s Instagram. There’s one of Prince Harry and seven-year-old Prince Archie (facing away from camera) playing with a giant football....","tags":["The Royal Family","Royal Follies"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/98lejsphyf8e1dhz7d3qzk0ubmc6-c8ee3be960fcdb0af6f4cb69e5888f0f.jpg","author":{"name":"Shane Watson"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/shane-watson\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eShane Watson\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The Duchess of Sussex’s latest Instagram foray hints at many things: her picture-perfect marriage, her glamorous Montecito life, and—what else?—a brewing next act","shorts":false,"banner":"Royal Follies","category":"The Royal Family"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/a-sonic-switcheroo-at-mar-a-lago","title":"A Sonic Switcheroo at Mar-a-Lago","content_text":"It was 6:05 a.m. in October last year when Sterling Hamill was awoken by the unmistakable screech of a plane flying low over his home. The 86-year-old retired businessman had moved 11 years earlier from a home near Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s luxury club in Palm Beach, Florida, to avoid the noise of aircraft.At first, Mr Hamill dismissed the shuddering vibrations as a one-off. Mr Trump has spent around a month at Mar-a-Lago, known as the Winter White House, each year since he made the Florida resort his official residence in 2019.It is everyone’s business when the president ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/a-sonic-switcheroo-at-mar-a-lago","summary":"It was 6:05 a.m. in October last year when Sterling Hamill was awoken by the unmistakable screech of a plane flying low over his home. The 86-year-old retired businessman had moved 11 years earlier from a home near Mar-a-Lago, Donald...","tags":["Crime and Scandal","Hearing Raid"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/spt1vzo2key7tro12quuqbl3ql20-fbade9e36a3f36d3d676c1b808451dd7.jpg","author":{"name":"Poppy Wood and Natasha Leake"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/poppy-wood\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003ePoppy Wood\u003c/a\u003e \u003cem class=\"type-overline type-overline-10\"\u003eand\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/natasha-leake\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eNatasha Leake\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Trump spent decades trying to stop planes from flying over his club. Now his tony Palm Beach neighbors say he has finally succeeded—and made their palatial homes unlivable","shorts":false,"banner":"Hearing Raid","category":"Crime and Scandal"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/faux-fighters","title":"Faux Fighters","content_text":"When Calvin Cheng wanted to turn his Muay Thai hobby into something more serious, he moved from the Netherlands to Thailand. Muay Thai—Thailand’s national combat sport—is known as “the art of eight limbs” and is a punishing form of kickboxing in which fighters use fists, feet, elbows, and knees to batter their opponents. Long a core discipline of mixed martial arts (M.M.A.)—and a major part of the U.F.C.—it has recently found a new audience among young Western men chasing authentic violence, old-fashioned manliness, and social-media glory.That audience has not arrived from nowhere. As M.M.A. has migrated from the ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/faux-fighters","summary":"When Calvin Cheng wanted to turn his Muay Thai hobby into something more serious, he moved from the Netherlands to Thailand. Muay Thai—Thailand’s national combat sport—is known as “the art of eight limbs” and is a punishing form of kickboxing...","tags":["Modern Times"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/xrkyjwvoq3p5p5ftilvh2vcjj983-d5bcdbc7b2d8db36abe77955bfb41e8b.jpg","author":{"name":"Maggie Turner"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/maggie-turner\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMaggie Turner\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"As the U.F.C. lands at the White House this weekend, young men are flocking to Thailand in search of authentic violence. What they’re getting is something oddly Trumpian: part spectacle, part grift, part fraud …","shorts":false,"banner":"Modern Times","category":"Modern Times"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/the-air-mail-diary","title":"The AIR MAIL Diary","content_text":"As the Trump catastrophe—noxious! inhumane! global!—continues to soil and degrade everything it can, from the National Mall to the Middle East to Madison Square Garden, we remain steadfast, scanning the planet for strange, surprising, generally less appalling stories. Happily, they still exist. For instance:Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian—you might remember: a banana duct-taped to a wall—has been stolen from the Pompidou-Metz museum in eastern France. Just last year, a visitor to the museum ate the banana, though “guards quickly intervened and stuck up a replacement,” said Le Monde. (The piece, which was first exhibited—and, as it happens, eaten—at ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/the-air-mail-diary","summary":"As the Trump catastrophe—noxious! inhumane! global!—continues to soil and degrade everything it can, from the National Mall to the Middle East to Madison Square Garden, we remain steadfast, scanning the planet for strange, surprising, generally less appalling stories. Happily, they...","tags":["News","News of the World"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/yibyxzaavu4g04v3pj5ra7hm8ia6-c78ea50f7c1c4a12f1bd95fe56cc9cc9.jpg","author":{"name":"George Kalogerakis"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/george-kalogerakis\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGeorge Kalogerakis\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Bears are attacking the Japanese! Snakes are attacking the Chinese! And other strange stories from around the globe …","shorts":false,"banner":"News of the World","category":"News"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/the-god-test","title":"The God Test","content_text":"If you see the abbreviation A.I. and immediately, without the aid of Gemini, change it to OY!, then you’ll find comfort in Robert Wright’s ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/the-god-test","summary":"If you see the abbreviation A.I. and immediately, without the aid of Gemini, change it to OY!, then you’ll find comfort in Robert Wright’s ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/4pzjl7l3sianh0o2k523jxuasfco-8e0df266dfe1c4cb2871a09bb4b7bc44.png","author":{"name":"Jim Kelly"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_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/2026-6-13/summer-with-monika","title":"Summer with Monika","content_text":"Summer with Monika (1953) captures the all-consuming and fervid emotions of young love with director Ingmar Bergman","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/summer-with-monika","summary":"Summer with Monika (1953) captures the all-consuming and fervid emotions of young love with director Ingmar Bergman","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/72pw8cwqc70v20l3alkk5umv8e9t-8ab4c0891d2ad51e7004f67bb2aa6438.png","author":{"name":"Eve Eismann"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_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/2026-6-13/thuma-x-buchanan-studio","title":"Thuma x Buchanan Studio","content_text":"Color is back. Not in the cautious “accent pillow” sense, but in the full-fledged, English-decorator ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/thuma-x-buchanan-studio","summary":"Color is back. Not in the cautious “accent pillow” sense, but in the full-fledged, English-decorator ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/mlnyjjt4a4zbv0sjbcrr0a9a1eu4-0927db210cb0622753aa24efe38c0eb1.png","author":{"name":"Jennifer Noyes"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_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/2026-6-13/lescale","title":"L’Escale","content_text":"Most of the real-life restaurants that appear in films and television series about Paris are so resolutely mediocre. This artful ignorance ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/lescale","summary":"Most of the real-life restaurants that appear in films and television series about Paris are so resolutely mediocre. This artful ignorance ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/s3q20gzh63zmus1ie597g4oumd1y-23dc81074473394f3cda367983881b18.png","author":{"name":"Alec Lobrano"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/alec-lobrano\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAlec Lobrano\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"dine","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/schostal","title":"Schostal","content_text":"Knicks tickets or luxury two-ply cotton pajamas? I went with the latter for an early Father’s Day gift this year, which, depending on your priorities ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/schostal","summary":"Knicks tickets or luxury two-ply cotton pajamas? I went with the latter for an early Father’s Day gift this year, which, depending on your priorities ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/d40uz25ndshlgpsxpu39yix3asjw-007a116b754a328ba48538c8281a1269.png","author":{"name":"Catherine Scott"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/catherine-scott\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eCatherine Scott\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"sleep","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/plumb-line","title":"Plumb Line","content_text":"Loie Hollowell’s work exists somewhere between Georgia O’Keeffe and Hilma af Klint, with perhaps a Robert Irwin–esque ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/plumb-line","summary":"Loie Hollowell’s work exists somewhere between Georgia O’Keeffe and Hilma af Klint, with perhaps a Robert Irwin–esque ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/mch0jh5rtk81hwr2m5sqkvldciuq-726f9bec8d3898f9f6576af26f0357d5.png","author":{"name":"Spike Carter"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/spike-carter\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eSpike Carter\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"look","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/all-you-need-is-george-martin","title":"All You Need Is George Martin","content_text":"A lot of things had to go right for the Beatles to become the Beatles. John and Paul had to have met in the summer of 1957 at the Woolton Village church fête. Paul and George had to have taken the same bus home from school. The supple Ringo had to have been drafted in to replace the stiff Pete Best. And the four of them had to have found a driven champion in Brian Epstein.But from a recording standpoint, there was no greater twist of fate than the Beatles’ having been rejected by nearly every record label in London, ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/all-you-need-is-george-martin","summary":"A lot of things had to go right for the Beatles to become the Beatles. John and Paul had to have met in the summer of 1957 at the Woolton Village church fête. Paul and George had to have taken...","tags":["Books","Music Man"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/h2ed8kc4v4b1mw77or6wpj2lbofe-50da017e834e67c755883a2ef1d86824.jpg","author":{"name":"David Kamp"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/david-kamp\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eDavid Kamp\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The genteel record producer did not look the part of a revolutionary. But as a commemorative new book makes clear, his wildly innovative work with the Beatles changed pop music forever","shorts":false,"banner":"Music Man","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/a-night-celebrating-dress-code","title":"A Night Celebrating DRESS CODE","content_text":"On any given night in New York, a party is faced with competition. It just hasn’t come from the Knicks since the 90s. “I think the last time I broke the dress code is tonight,” Rickie De Sole tells me. “I don’t have any Knicks merch on!” While De Sole is fashionable enough to pull off orange and cobalt, she opted for a Haider Ackermann for Tom Ford suit to toast the launch of Dress Code, AIR MAIL’s sparkly new weekly dispatch on all things style. She was joined by Air Mail editor Julia Vitale, and together they welcomed representatives from the fashion set to Temple Bar on Wednesday night. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/a-night-celebrating-dress-code","summary":"On any given night in New York, a party is faced with competition. It just hasn’t come from the Knicks since the 90s. “I think the last time I broke the dress code is tonight,” Rickie De Sole tells me....","tags":["Style","After Hours"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/1di5pdyqs13oq7177mhsfq4s05x5-d2a35d87733c7f298046c5c5a23e3bf2.png","author":{"name":"Amanda Lee Burkett"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_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":"Wes Gordon, Chloe Malle, Eva Chen, and others joined Julia Vitale and Rickie De Sole at New York’s Temple Bar to celebrate the launch of AIR MAIL’s sparkly new style vertical","shorts":false,"banner":"After Hours","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/rebecca-ressler","title":"Rebecca Ressler","content_text":"On a busy stretch of Melrose Avenue, surrounded by high-end furniture galleries and showrooms, sits a tiny storefront. Walking by, you might miss it entirely—a paper sign adorned with hand-drawn bubble letters reading Hollywood Books is the only indication that it’s in business. But inside lives one of L.A.’s most quietly fashionable bookstores, run by Rebecca Ressler, who, since opening up shop in the fall of 2024, has spent the bulk of her days at her desk in the back, ready to make recommendations.”Everybody on this block is so warm,” says Ressler, who initially worried the store’s kitschy interiors would clash with the elegant galleries around it. Instead, Hollywood Books has become a hot spot on the literary circuit: it hosted parties for Zoe Dubno’s ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/rebecca-ressler","summary":"On a busy stretch of Melrose Avenue, surrounded by high-end furniture galleries and showrooms, sits a tiny storefront. Walking by, you might miss it entirely—a paper sign adorned with hand-drawn bubble letters reading Hollywood Books is the only indication that...","tags":["Books","Close-up"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/5znarj0iewqgbydwerbx1ec2rj8a-75571219225a45d805f1d7e170641be5.jpg","author":{"name":"Anna Jube"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/anna-jube\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAnna Jube\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The owner of Hollywood Books has turned her small, finely curated bookstore into a Los Angeles literary hot spot, drawing guests such as Kaia Gerber and Petra Collins","shorts":false,"banner":"Close-up","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/mother-knows-best","title":"Mother Knows Best","content_text":"The ineffable Mrs. Bennet of Pride and Prejudice saw herself as grievously burdened, what with five daughters to marry off and one of those daughters ridiculously unwilling to consent to a union that would keep a critically important piece of property in the family.Maria Theresia, the ruler of the Habsburg monarchy and sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Milan, Moravia, Austrian Netherlands, Austrian Silesia, Dalmatia Tyrol, Parma, and several other very large pieces of property from 1740 until her death in 1780, could surely have provided Mrs. B. with some much-needed perspective. After all, the business of Maria Theresia’s life was to get ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/mother-knows-best","summary":"The ineffable Mrs. Bennet of Pride and Prejudice saw herself as grievously burdened, what with five daughters to marry off and one of those daughters ridiculously unwilling to consent to a union that would keep a critically important piece of...","tags":["Books"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/uirf4dy2cvesmyckm8gmh48807ks-ef99a9ea5ab8f1f4da992ff549e325d4.jpg","author":{"name":"Joanne Kaufman"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/joanne-kaufman\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJoanne Kaufman\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Books","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/theres-something-about-malta","title":"There’s Something About Malta","content_text":"Mention Malta and most people picture package holidays, British retirees, and apartment blocks overlooking the sea. Most people, it turns out, are wrong. Away from the high-rises and heaving bars of St. Julian’s, in the Three Villages of Attard, Balzan, and Lija, there exists an entirely different reality, where the island’s layered past still feels close at hand. It was here that aristocratic families and wealthy merchants once built their summer palaces far from the noise and heat of Valletta, the striking 16th-century capital.They weren’t the first to settle in Malta. Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, and Normans all passed ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/theres-something-about-malta","summary":"Mention Malta and most people picture package holidays, British retirees, and apartment blocks overlooking the sea. Most people, it turns out, are wrong. Away from the high-rises and heaving bars of St. Julian’s, in the Three Villages of Attard, Balzan,...","tags":["Travel","View With a Room"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/8cjn39t7164e446ek0ksth4q8lv9-3da7ae156f73e970b1cc2cb70f96a0bb.jpg","author":{"name":"Elena Clavarino"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/elena-clavarino\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eElena Clavarino\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The island’s Mediterranean, North African, and British influences converge at Casa Bonavita, a restored 18th-century home turned boutique hotel in the quiet town of Attard","shorts":false,"banner":"View With a Room","category":"Travel"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/barbara-hepworths-true-colors","title":"Barbara Hepworth’s True Colors","content_text":"We tend to picture her sculptures unadorned. Monumental limestone couples. The mother and child in sensuous alabaster. Burled-wood torsos, all impressive in their purity and scale. Barbara Hepworth (1903–75) exploited her material with rigor, incorporating open space into closed rectangles, spheres, cones, and cylinders. Yet her modernism radiated a belief in the harmony between humans and nature. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/barbara-hepworths-true-colors","summary":"We tend to picture her sculptures unadorned. Monumental limestone couples. The mother and child in sensuous alabaster. Burled-wood torsos, all impressive in their purity and scale. Barbara Hepworth (1903–75) exploited her material with rigor, incorporating open space into closed rectangles,...","tags":["Culture","Highlight"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/a1qaufbddngszy4bl2sp4xu35igo-c7ea0e4d264fa7251b10b5e65207374e.jpg","author":{"name":"Patricia Zohn"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/patricia-zohn\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003ePatricia Zohn\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"An exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, in London, reveals how the British modernist brought color into her abstract sculptures and geometric drawings","shorts":false,"banner":"Highlight","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/whats-on-trumps-birthday-playlist","title":"What’s on Trump’s Birthday Playlist?","content_text":"Donald Trump may be celebrating his 80th birthday this weekend with a White House U.F.C. fight, but the festivities are bound to come with a soundtrack. Bill Clinton had his sax, Jimmy Carter his Southern rockers, Barack Obama his music-biz admirers. Our current president has his iPad—and the range of songs he’s called up on that device, or played at his events, provides another, sometimes unsettling peek into the Trump brain.A bona-fide boomer—born the year after World War II ended—Trump was spotted at the occasional rock show before his White House years. In 2006, he was in one ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/whats-on-trumps-birthday-playlist","summary":"Donald Trump may be celebrating his 80th birthday this weekend with a White House U.F.C. fight, but the festivities are bound to come with a soundtrack. Bill Clinton had his sax, Jimmy Carter his Southern rockers, Barack Obama his music-biz...","tags":["Playlists","Air Play"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/p3e4yoo9jinmyduzetp2qo85urqf-22af645d1859cb5ca6da0c484f1f37ea.jpg","author":{"name":"David Browne"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/david-browne\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eDavid Browne\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Trump’s favorite songs offer an unsettling glimpse into his mind: Broadway schmaltz, masculine bombast, and an eerie indifference to the world going up in flames","shorts":false,"banner":"Air Play","category":"Playlists"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/ruby-wrights-sketchbook","title":"Ruby Wright’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13/ruby-wrights-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Ruby Wright's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/vc1wyc2d8twi9urqhyyx3jo4jlwd-6234e9ef2c84c7e6e208fc3f131b69b5.jpg","author":{"name":"Ruby Wright"},"date_published":"2026-06-13T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 13, 2026","date":"2026-06-13","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-13"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/ruby-wright\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eRuby Wright\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Ruby Wright's Sketchbook","category":"Sketchbook"}}]}