{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"June 6, 2026 – Air Mail","description":"Welcome to Air Mail Issue number 360.","favicon":"https://static.airmail.news/assets/icons/apple-touch-icon.png","home_page_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6","feed_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6.json","items":[{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/the-view-from-here","title":"The View from Here","content_text":"The World Cup comes to North America this summer with 48 teams vying for the title. But which one should you support? There’s always the home team, but where’s the fun in that when, for one month, you can try on a temporary international identity? Don’t worry if your understanding of the beautiful game is a little limited. Air Mail is here to help confused New Yorkers decide which team to accessorize with—even if you don’t know your Erling Haaland from a hole in the ground.The Hamptons AgrarianYou’re deeply involved in land preservation, by which you mean you’re asking Annabelle Selldorf to design a 12,000-square-foot wellness barn on “under-utilized” wetlands. Your guesthouse is called “the Old Milking Shed” and has a climate-controlled wine room. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/the-view-from-here","summary":"The World Cup comes to North America this summer with 48 teams vying for the title. But which one should you support? There’s always the home team, but where’s the fun in that when, for one month, you can try...","tags":["The View from Here","But First ..."],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/579h7rfx5y9iq3q6y1hvvx999myg-e186e68dccaa600758ccdde4ca9cf8bc.jpg","author":{"name":"George Pendle"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/george-pendle\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGeorge Pendle\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Which World Cup team are you? A guide for the FIFA arriviste","shorts":false,"banner":"But First ...","category":"The View from Here"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/barry-blitts-sketchbook","title":"Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/barry-blitts-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Barry Blitt's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/jvc9q6en81s0m3y5rmv9d1kbd1vt-625c87473e84545d0ac669f7d5e4ce8e.jpg","author":{"name":"Barry Blitt"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_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/2026-6-6/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-art-worlds-gadfly","title":"The Rise and Fall of the Art World’s Gadfly","content_text":"Last Sunday, Hilde Lynn Helphenstein was found dead in her hotel room overlooking the lush gardens of the Rosewood in São Paulo, Brazil. She was surrounded by just a few stray objects: an empty vodka bottle, a shattered glass, and prescription-pill bottles. Outside, it was sprinkling rain, and the clouds hung low over the city.Helphenstein, 40, had undergone a cosmetic procedure three weeks earlier, and was staying in the city to recover. When her surgeon called to check in on her and didn’t hear back, he contacted the hotel staff to get access to her room, where he found her lying lifeless in bed. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-art-worlds-gadfly","summary":"Last Sunday, Hilde Lynn Helphenstein was found dead in her hotel room overlooking the lush gardens of the Rosewood in São Paulo, Brazil. She was surrounded by just a few stray objects: an empty vodka bottle, a shattered glass, and...","tags":["Crime and Scandal","Art and Artifice"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/2fpjnmcc4h255t6u30wb9o6bpbg2-263a18203ca3a99fd7b0ebf1cdacfa1e.jpg","author":{"name":"Elena Clavarino"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/elena-clavarino\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eElena Clavarino\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"As “Jerry Gogosian,” Hilde Lynn Helphenstein found fame skewering the industry online. But after making her, the Internet destroyed her","shorts":false,"banner":"Art and Artifice","category":"Crime and Scandal"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/flipping-ell","title":"Flipping ’Ell!","content_text":"For chronic house flippers Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, the spoils of Hollywood have long been rivaled by the riches of real estate. Over the past two decades, the couple has bought and sold more than 30 homes in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Montecito, generally without much drama.But then they came to the Cotswolds. When they purchased Kitesbridge Farm, in the summer of 2024, they intended to use it as a vacation home, hopscotching between the 16,600-square-foot estate and two palatial homes in California.They were sufficiently taken with the place to pay $20 million—around $4 million over the asking price—for the 43-acre complex in Swinbrook, Oxfordshire, where neighbors include ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/flipping-ell","summary":"For chronic house flippers Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, the spoils of Hollywood have long been rivaled by the riches of real estate. Over the past two decades, the couple has bought and sold more than 30 homes in...","tags":["Modern Times","Cotswolds Confidential"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/hoagv1g3nez6g3xcwezk8r8ikr8x-4726929fad777f3b30586637574e7623.jpg","author":{"name":"Ashley Baker"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/ashley-baker\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAshley Baker\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s attempt to flip a $30 million Cotswolds farmhouse has been thwarted by floods, planning battles, an anemic property market—and the Romans","shorts":false,"banner":"Cotswolds Confidential","category":"Modern Times"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/an-offer-theyd-like-to-refuse","title":"An Offer They’d Like to Refuse","content_text":"Concetta Chillemi was chatting to friends outside her shop, next to Palermo’s gallery for modern art, which is housed in a sublime Baroque church in the city’s historic center. A few meters away, an Italian TV crew had its camera trained on the tiny square in front of the church, where event staff in black T-shirts scurried around in the heat. They were preparing for the arrival of the British singer Dua Lipa and the actor Callum Turner, who over the next two days are celebrating their wedding in the Sicilian capital after exchanging vows in London last weekend.Dua Lipa is one of the world’s biggest pop stars, ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/an-offer-theyd-like-to-refuse","summary":"Concetta Chillemi was chatting to friends outside her shop, next to Palermo’s gallery for modern art, which is housed in a sublime Baroque church in the city’s historic center. A few meters away, an Italian TV crew had its camera...","tags":["Modern Times","Marriage, Pop Star–Style"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/qpy8famrt9pjecg9r8i771szs9ro-00764ad33f75a53d9e10e03866809d5c.png","author":{"name":"Angela Giuffrida"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/angela-giuffrida\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAngela Giuffrida\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Dua Lipa and Callum Turner’s Sicilian wedding celebrations are bringing pop stars, private jets, and security cordons to Palermo—but some locals are fingering their knives","shorts":false,"banner":"Marriage, Pop Star–Style","category":"Modern Times"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/the-true-face-of-avatar","title":"The True Face of Avatar?","content_text":"Avatar, which is still the highest-grossing movie of all time, and which has spawned two sequels, with two more in the works, tells the story of a white U.S. Marine who infiltrates a blue-skinned alien race, falls in love, and joins the fight to save them from corporate extraction. Director James Cameron has said the Na’vi were inspired by Indigenous peoples globally, citing the Lakota Sioux as the “driving force.” Now, in a case of life imitating art, Cameron himself is being accused of corporate extraction by an Indigenous woman. On May 5, Q’orianka Kilcher filed a lawsuit against the director, alleging that he used her face at 14, without her knowledge or consent, as the “keystone” for the character Neytiri. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/the-true-face-of-avatar","summary":"Avatar, which is still the highest-grossing movie of all time, and which has spawned two sequels, with two more in the works, tells the story of a white U.S. Marine who infiltrates a blue-skinned alien race, falls in love, and...","tags":["News","seeing double"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/afb3qvh06a2wexbkyo11cf6v78x5-11db08cbe47f5c8c04b60e04302b7e9f.jpg","author":{"name":"Petala Ironcloud"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/petala-ironcloud\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003ePetala Ironcloud\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"A rousing tale of Indigenous resistance to corporate greed, James Cameron’s science-fiction franchise has grossed billions. Now it’s Cameron who stands accused of Native exploitation","shorts":false,"banner":"seeing double","category":"News"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/mirage","title":"Mirage","content_text":"Under the Sun, Vol. 2, Ferrari drifts between past and present and “between the roar of engines and the silence after ignition,” ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/mirage","summary":"Under the Sun, Vol. 2, Ferrari drifts between past and present and “between the roar of engines and the silence after ignition,” ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/o1q1s73faoowvnd6p4hwkw4onp2i-8976a64d783ce8e2bf2bef255eebe40e.png","author":{"name":"Spike Carter"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_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/2026-6-6/current-rothko","title":"Current Rothko","content_text":"On a Tuesday afternoon in New York City—77 degrees Fahrenheit with a slight overcast—the day resembles Mark Rothko’s No. 11. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/current-rothko","summary":"On a Tuesday afternoon in New York City—77 degrees Fahrenheit with a slight overcast—the day resembles Mark Rothko’s No. 11. ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ewejnnl1vu3ish87rny09e2l0qpd-cd6bf6ef27ed2738a31bd4a0154206eb.png","author":{"name":"Gracie Wiener"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/gracie-wiener\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGracie Wiener\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"visit","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/1873","title":"1873","content_text":"Liaquat Ahamed won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for Lords of Finance, his account of how four central bankers helped bring about ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/1873","summary":"Liaquat Ahamed won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for Lords of Finance, his account of how four central bankers helped bring about ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/uj809x9v6u2lqgsqb9vhfr760bmo-f6f53a1fce6bf7d2ac1846c4cfe4470b.png","author":{"name":"Jim Kelly"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_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/2026-6-6/summer-lovers","title":"Summer Lovers","content_text":"Summer Lovers (1982) is the cinematic embodiment of the song “Summer Nights,” from Grease (1978), which makes sense considering ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/summer-lovers","summary":"Summer Lovers (1982) is the cinematic embodiment of the song “Summer Nights,” from Grease (1978), which makes sense considering ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/pyqkrcrmqpd5505s3cb07po9enzu-0e0d30d78530794bbbf4f4e38a8fb8fc.png","author":{"name":"Eve Eismann"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_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/2026-6-6/gigis","title":"Gigi’s","content_text":"Those who give New York restaurants less than favorable reviews often sound like a broken record (“too expensive,” “too loud,” ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/gigis","summary":"Those who give New York restaurants less than favorable reviews often sound like a broken record (“too expensive,” “too loud,” ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/dsfuqq6rj2o53l19pk92ewocigig-ecad77a0923793c61a128d01a81e73a2.png","author":{"name":"Jeanne Malle"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jeanne-malle\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJeanne Malle\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"dine","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/the-daffodil-days","title":"The Daffodil Days","content_text":"Helen Bain writes like John Constable painted: each minute detail is observed and rendered, creating a complete and magnificent ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/the-daffodil-days","summary":"Helen Bain writes like John Constable painted: each minute detail is observed and rendered, creating a complete and magnificent ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/38y47g1av2rmvnvupnrncygvibeq-cc19f7a38111a997eff478abfa084186.png","author":{"name":"Sarah Hyde"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/sarah-hyde\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eSarah Hyde\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"read","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/the-new-capital-of-chardonnay","title":"The New Capital of Chardonnay","content_text":"After giving a talk at the University of Southern California, I found myself at the Chateau Marmont, the terminally hip L.A. hotel, hungry and thirsty. I’ve been staying there since 1984, when Paramount was putting me up, and I tapped a stash of white Burgundies from the 70s while eating tuna melts and working on the screenplay for Bright Lights, Big City. Or not eating—we did a lot of not eating back then. The glorious old whites are long gone, but looking over the wine list during my recent stay, I discovered a 2021 00 Wines V.G.W. Chardonnay. V.G.W., by the way, stands for “Very Good White.” And it’s very good, but the E.G.W.—Extremely Good White—is even better. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/the-new-capital-of-chardonnay","summary":"After giving a talk at the University of Southern California, I found myself at the Chateau Marmont, the terminally hip L.A. hotel, hungry and thirsty. I’ve been staying there since 1984, when Paramount was putting me up, and I tapped...","tags":["Food and Drink","The Last Vice"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/cxidjktkfxl3vgb25bd7y1xdyf8d-a687ade4c8c1dbbffc84b72b7816dad0.jpg","author":{"name":"Jay McInerney"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jay-mcinerney\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJay M\u003cem\u003ec\u003c/em\u003eInerney\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Long known for its Pinot Noirs, Oregon’s Willamette Valley is unexpectedly producing some of the world’s finest Chardonnays. Our columnist charts the white-wine revolution out West","shorts":false,"banner":"The Last Vice","category":"Food and Drink"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/the-womb-boom","title":"The Womb Boom","content_text":"How much would you pay to be a parent? For years, Americans who turned to surrogacy could expect to spend about $100,000 on what the industry calls the “surrogacy journey.” For deep-pocketed intended parents—the term for those who plan to raise a baby born through surrogacy—that was expensive but manageable. High-profile parents who used surrogates, such as Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, and Chrissy Teigen, helped make the practice increasingly visible. Today, even they might blink. Since the pandemic, the cost of a single surrogacy birth has doubled, and sometimes much more. The starting price is now often $200,000, and at the top end it can easily reach $600,000. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/the-womb-boom","summary":"How much would you pay to be a parent? For years, Americans who turned to surrogacy could expect to spend about $100,000 on what the industry calls the “surrogacy journey.” For deep-pocketed intended parents—the term for those who plan to...","tags":["Modern Times","Labor costs"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/j2gd5u5wki8ekvwpla8sbsjz8st2-5275c0d9b0693b3a971200099f04b13e.jpg","author":{"name":"Mark Ellwood"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/mark-ellwood\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMark Ellwood\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Once merely expensive, surrogacy has become a luxury arms race, with private equity snapping up clinics, agencies, and egg banks. Can a new $600,000 white-glove service really be worth it?","shorts":false,"banner":"Labor costs","category":"Modern Times"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/golden-balls","title":"Golden Balls","content_text":"The World Cup kicks off in just a few days, and already it has secured one title: the most expensive tournament in history, a fact its organizer, FIFA, seems entirely comfortable with.In New York, fans have been introduced to the romance of the game with $150 round-trip New Jersey Transit tickets from the ever delightful Penn Station to the exotic climes of MetLife Stadium, 7.8 miles away. In Kansas City, a single ticket for world champion Argentina’s opening match against Algeria was listed at $16,507—a bracing sum to spend for an evening in Missouri. More affordable is ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/golden-balls","summary":"The World Cup kicks off in just a few days, and already it has secured one title: the most expensive tournament in history, a fact its organizer, FIFA, seems entirely comfortable with.In New York, fans have been introduced to the...","tags":["Modern Times","Net Worth"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/lql8c6d6wruuazqjm3djj36tdkpf-17265f2e4903c21913128edbffa3755b.jpg","author":{"name":"Jeanne Malle"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jeanne-malle\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJeanne Malle\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Ticket prices for this year’s World Cup are already sky-high. But some luxury packages—complete with police escorts, cigar rollers, and Tibetan singing bowls—can turn a trip to the game into a seven-figure spectacle","shorts":false,"banner":"Net Worth","category":"Modern Times"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/wags-just-want-to-have-fun","title":"WAGs Just Want to Have Fun","content_text":"The Spice Girls’ requirements for any prospective lover were famously extensive—and perhaps a touch excessive. “Forget my past.” Sure. “Make it fast.” No problem. “Get with my friends.” Excuse me? David Beckham’s list for Posh was considerably more relaxed. Possessing any prior knowledge of, or even a remote interest in, soccer? Entirely optional.As a young Victoria Beckham candidly told Marie Claire UK in early 2000, “I do go to football sometimes, but I don’t know the offside rule or free kicks—or corner kicks, or whatever they’re called.” The admission came as she was settling into life as the nation’s most scrutinized soccer spouse, having married David in an extravagant July 1999 wedding. And just like that, a ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/wags-just-want-to-have-fun","summary":"The Spice Girls’ requirements for any prospective lover were famously extensive—and perhaps a touch excessive. “Forget my past.” Sure. “Make it fast.” No problem. “Get with my friends.” Excuse me? David Beckham’s list for Posh was considerably more relaxed. Possessing...","tags":["Books","Goal Diggers"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/h22l54cdqksiwkiy9qh4b600ivsz-eea604fd7d9173b29d5b444b6e075ed3.png","author":{"name":"Carolina de Armas and Ann Schneider"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/carolina-de-armas\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eCarolina \u003cem\u003ede\u003c/em\u003e Armas\u003c/a\u003e \u003cem class=\"type-overline type-overline-10\"\u003eand\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/ann-schneider\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAnn Schneider\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Victoria Beckham, Shakira, Georgina Rodríguez … In time for the World Cup, a look at the wives and girlfriends of soccer players who have long stolen the spotlight from the beautiful game","shorts":false,"banner":"Goal Diggers","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/wed-just-never-seen-anything-like-it","title":"“We’d Just Never Seen Anything Like It”","content_text":"There are times when culture gets so stuck and suffocating, you just want something to explode. That was how Britain felt in the mid-1970s. If you were young and working-class—receiving unemployment benefits or in a dead-end job—you might have hoped that music would help vent your pent-up frustration at a collapsing economy drowning in cream-and-brown kitsch. But unless you liked plodding pub rock, disco, or aging musos whose songs dragged on longer than some wars, you were out of luck. Especially if you lived in northwest England.Then one day in February 1976, a student at the Bolton Institute of Technology named Howard Trafford read a ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/wed-just-never-seen-anything-like-it","summary":"There are times when culture gets so stuck and suffocating, you just want something to explode. That was how Britain felt in the mid-1970s. If you were young and working-class—receiving unemployment benefits or in a dead-end job—you might have hoped...","tags":["Culture","The filth and the fury"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/z676vrj32cloqaxvj1z4klmh9fy9-d067c56c778a8c2433f2682d032f6ea2.jpg","author":{"name":"Phil Tinline"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/phil-tinline\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003ePhil Tinline\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"In the summer of 1976, the Sex Pistols played two sparsely attended shows in Manchester. Among the few who did turn up were future members of Buzzcocks, the Fall, the Smiths, and Joy Division","shorts":false,"banner":"The filth and the fury","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/if-ayatollah-once","title":"If Ayatollah Once…","content_text":"As Donald Trump’s ill-considered war on Iran slouches toward an endgame, spare a thought for the conflict’s biggest losers: the Iranian people. In early January, amid a crackdown on anti-regime demonstrations, Trump urged Iranians to “KEEP PROTESTING…. HELP IS ON THE WAY!” The U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign that began on February 28 succeeded in eliminating dozens of top officials, including Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But the regime remains in power, still wielding its tools of repression. In the last three months, at least 35 political prisoners have been executed, the Internet has gone dark, and food and water ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/if-ayatollah-once","summary":"As Donald Trump’s ill-considered war on Iran slouches toward an endgame, spare a thought for the conflict’s biggest losers: the Iranian people. In early January, amid a crackdown on anti-regime demonstrations, Trump urged Iranians to “KEEP PROTESTING…. HELP IS ON...","tags":["Books"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/avj6fu41n633ftwssca6g0up3ihj-fc6603d1db22309ef5b773f18dbfdb27.png","author":{"name":"Romesh Ratnesar"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/romesh-ratnesar\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eRomesh Ratnesar\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Books","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/joe-anders","title":"Joe Anders","content_text":"Seven years ago, Joe Anders made his feature-film debut in the colossal war film 1917. Only his name didn’t appear in the credits as such. At the time, the then 15-year-old went by his given name, Joe Mendes. But working in Hollywood with the same last name as his father, Sam Mendes—the film’s director, known for everything from American Beauty to Skyfall—quickly began to plague him with all the trials of nepo baby–dom.At 18, Anders landed his first leading role under his new alias, and things began to feel more comfortable. “Once I got my first job on my own terms and off my own back, then I didn’t really have to think too much about outside perspectives,” he says. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/joe-anders","summary":"Seven years ago, Joe Anders made his feature-film debut in the colossal war film 1917. Only his name didn’t appear in the credits as such. At the time, the then 15-year-old went by his given name, Joe Mendes. But working...","tags":["Film and Television","Close-up"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/5ql38f6bbpt769l50kas9mu2ajk6-d6cd91b858df02d744bc744d15b56625.jpg","author":{"name":"Maggie Turner"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/maggie-turner\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMaggie Turner\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The 22-year-old son of Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes is carving out a film career on his own terms, with a Netflix screenplay under his belt and a new role alongside Amy Adams and Javier Bardem","shorts":false,"banner":"Close-up","category":"Film and Television"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/bigger-better-starrier","title":"Bigger, Better, Starrier","content_text":"England’s shipyards are going down, and so are the men who gave them their lives. But for crusty old Jackie White, that’s no excuse for leaving the S.S. Utopia in the stocks unfinished. Go out in glory! Just get the job done! In the real world, there’s no way this happens. “Even Rome wasn’t built in a day, Jackie,” a realist protests. Jackie’s eyebrows fly up, and the corners of his mouth curl down. “I wasn’t the foreman on that job.”Sting, who plays Jackie in the musical The Last Ship and wrote the songs, knows all about projects ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/bigger-better-starrier","summary":"England’s shipyards are going down, and so are the men who gave them their lives. But for crusty old Jackie White, that’s no excuse for leaving the S.S. Utopia in the stocks unfinished. Go out in glory! Just get the...","tags":["Culture","Highlight"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ucvpjli41jvljhk320siikb6kj5y-b8d6ed99ee5dfdde78e94c14ab3e1c6d.jpg","author":{"name":"Matthew Gurewitsch"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/matthew-gurewitsch\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMatthew Gurewitsch\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Twelve years after its brief run on Broadway, Sting brings \u003cem\u003eThe Last Ship,\u003c/em\u003e his autobiographical passion project, to the Metropolitan Opera House","shorts":false,"banner":"Highlight","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/encore-for-le-bus","title":"Encore for Le Bus","content_text":"Arriving at Bus Palladium at the end of a sunny spring afternoon, I was thrilled to see a familiar vertical, two-word neon sign glowing orange again in a side street in Pigalle. An old friend I ran into on the way summed up the general disbelief: “A luxury hotel? The Bus was such a skanky fuck pit.” He wasn’t entirely wrong. For more than half a century, Bus Palladium was Paris’s best-known rock ’n’ roll nightclub. Serge Gainsbourg wrote a song about it, “Qui Est ‘In,’ Qui Est ‘Out,’” which he later performed there. Salvador Dalí arrived with a panther, ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/encore-for-le-bus","summary":"Arriving at Bus Palladium at the end of a sunny spring afternoon, I was thrilled to see a familiar vertical, two-word neon sign glowing orange again in a side street in Pigalle. An old friend I ran into on the...","tags":["Travel","View With a Room"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/bk9k7narksbbk6050mb0siuwlqzg-7eaea8b60f1020f46ba085f23825c45d.png","author":{"name":"Alexander Lobrano"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/alexander-lobrano\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAlexander Lobrano\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Serge Gainsbourg sang about it, Salvador Dalí arrived with a panther, and Mick Jagger celebrated his birthday there. Now Paris’s legendary nightclub Bus Palladium has a second act as a hotel","shorts":false,"banner":"View With a Room","category":"Travel"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/klaus-kremmerzs-sketchbook","title":"Klaus Kremmerz’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6/klaus-kremmerzs-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Klaus Kremmerz's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/dwntxnnkff646hsup2ts67l5enbb-0ddc2424b7fcc53835179f3076fb5a1f.jpg","author":{"name":"Klaus Kremmerz"},"date_published":"2026-06-06T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 6, 2026","date":"2026-06-06","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-6"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/klaus-kremmerz\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eKlaus Kremmerz\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Klaus Kremmerz's Sketchbook","category":"Sketchbook"}}]}