July 11, 2026 – Air Mail

BARS TO BLING

How the art-world fraudster known as Anna Delvey transformed her infamy into a thriving personal brand, in spite of—and, in many cases, thanks to—the ankle monitor constantly strapped to her leg …

LE PEN IN THE NECK

The far-right politician Marine Le Pen is running for president for the fourth time, even as her embezzlement conviction for robbing French taxpayers of millions remains on appeal. Sacré bleu! …

SPARE US!

Prince Harry’s latest legal defeat, in a case against the Daily Mail, and chaotic family visit to the U.K. lay bare the missteps—and unresolved daddy issues—that continue to define his post-royal life …

FOSSIL FUEL

Forget Jean-Michel Basquiat and Frank Stella. The world’s wealthiest collectors are now competing for something much bigger—literally: dinosaur skeletons …

ALL EYES ON THE HAMPTONS

From East Hampton to Quogue, A.I.-powered license-plate readers are keeping watch—and dividing tony residents over privacy and public safety …

REEL GENIUS

Long before Taxi Driver and Goodfellas, a young Martin Scorsese was storyboarding epics from his Little Italy bedroom. A new book chronicles the making of a cinematic giant …

GOING GREEN

A great salad isn’t just about the greens—it’s about the layers. The chef behind one of New York’s hottest restaurants tells Adam Rapoport why …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

A modernist mecca on Long Island’s eastern tip … a newly re-united Pulp stages a Brit-pop comeback in London … beach-house essentials, courtesy of our shopping expert … and news of the world you’ll actually want to read, in our latest AIR MAIL Diary column …

Issue No. 365

The View from Here Despite being forced to wear an ankle monitor following a conviction for robbing taxpayers of millions of dollars, France’s far-right politician Marine Le Pen is entering the election fray

By Alexandra Marshall

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Re-Inventing Anna The Russian-born fraudster Anna Sorokin, better known as Anna Delvey, has turned notoriety into a career, with campaigns from Goop to French Playboy—and zero signs of remorse

By Lauren Bans

Read On

The Weekly Waffle

A positively addictive word game to go with your morning coffee

“My castle is for the truly rich, who can afford to not live there at all.”

The Duke of Hazard Where do Harry’s thrashing in court and chaotic visit to the U.K. leave the duke’s plans to present himself as a moral crusader?

By Kate Mansey

Read On

Flocked and Loaded An $8 billion surveillance start-up is turning the roads on the eastern tip of Long Island into a searchable police database. Not everyone is grateful for the protection

By Andrew Zucker

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHOP CHOPPISH SHOP

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Shore Thing

Everything a beach house needs, from the essentials to the finishing touches, for long weekends by the water

Shop

Photo: Louise Dahl-Wolfe/Condé Nast/Getty Images (woman on beach)

Randall Poster’s Favorite Things AIR MAIL’s music editor—and the man responsible for some of cinema’s most memorable needle drops—shares his enthusiasm for Neil Young, a Sony boom box, country music, the Criterion Channel, and a Gray’s Papaya hot dog

Shop

Photo: Brigitte Lacombe (Poster)

How Much Is That T. Rex in the Window? With collectors including Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicolas Cage, and Ken Griffin, dead dinosaurs have become supersize status symbols

By Simon Mills

Read On

The AIR MAIL Diary Joey Chestnut swallows 66 wieners, a 1,700-pound bull interrupts a cricket match, and other strange stories from around the globe …

By George Kalogerakis

Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop

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watch Bonjour Tristesse Bonjour Tristesse needs no introduction. But humor me, if you will. Adapted by Otto Preminger in 1958 from Françoise Sagan’s…

read The Barbarous Feast Novels, at least the good ones, have always been the best avenue for us to understand others and thus…

listen Confessions II The Queen of Pop’s 15th studio album is here to remind us all why she ever earned that sobriquet in the first place. Madonna’s Confessions II…

apply Sunsolve Sunsolve’s Firm + Replenish S.P.F. 50 is luxury in a bottle, made with zinc oxide, to help protect skin from harmful UV rays, and nourishing…

swim Left on Friday Left on Friday makes the rare bathing suit that quietly subtracts a size. Founded by two former Lululemon executives, the brand borrowed…

strut Lemisios It wasn’t until the fifth time I walked down Likavittou Street, in Athens’s Kolonaki neighborhood, that I noticed the little shop on the corner…

watch Bonjour Tristesse Bonjour Tristesse needs no introduction. But humor me, if you will. Adapted by Otto Preminger in 1958 from Françoise Sagan’s…

read The Barbarous Feast Novels, at least the good ones, have always been the best avenue for us to understand others and thus…

listen Confessions II The Queen of Pop’s 15th studio album is here to remind us all why she ever earned that sobriquet in the first place. Madonna’s Confessions II…

apply Sunsolve Sunsolve’s Firm + Replenish S.P.F. 50 is luxury in a bottle, made with zinc oxide, to help protect skin from harmful UV rays, and nourishing…

swim Left on Friday Left on Friday makes the rare bathing suit that quietly subtracts a size. Founded by two former Lululemon executives, the brand borrowed…

strut Lemisios It wasn’t until the fifth time I walked down Likavittou Street, in Athens’s Kolonaki neighborhood, that I noticed the little shop on the corner…

Dress to Impress Why are restaurant salads always so much better? Jordan Frosolone, the chef at New York’s Borgo, reveals his tips and tricks for elevating at-home greens

By Adam Rapoport

Read On

On Spotify

Sixty-four years after meeting on a Dartford train platform, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have released the Rolling Stones’ 25th studio album…

In London

Helen Hunt stars as Ranyevskaya in a new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov’s final play, first performed in 1904…

In New York

The first major exhibition to examine West Africa’s long-overlooked modernist-architecture movement is on show at MoMA…

On Peacock

Jennifer Garner leads a new series based on Elin Hilderbrand’s novel about a widow who gathers her best friends for a Nantucket getaway…

In Southampton

The Hamptons Fine Art Fair returns for its 20th edition with work by more than 500 artists and a centennial tribute to Marilyn Monroe…

On Netflix

A new TV adaptation of Little House on the Prairie offers a fresh take on the family saga that is also a survival and coming-of-age tale…

Nicolas Rapold On

Martin Scorsese: All the Films—The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short

by Olivier Bousquet, Arnaud Devillard,
and Nicolas Schaller

Read On

Some Like It Sleek Clean lines, open plans, boxy silhouettes … a new coffee-table book traces how the eastern tip of Long Island became the proving ground for American modernism

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Knox House, designed by Alexander Knox, in Bridgehampton, New York, 1959.

Andrew Geller, Frank House, Fire Island, 1958.

Harry Bates, Madsen House, Fire Island, 1969.

*Top,* Richard Meier, Saltzman House, East Hampton, 1969; *above,* Grosvenor Atterbury, the pool at the Creeks, East Hampton, circa 1958.

Charles Gwathmey, Gwathmey House, Amagansett, 1965.

A brochure for the Long Island Association, 1947.

Peter Blake, Pinwheel House, Water Mill, 1954.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro (the design studio of architects Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, and Charles Renfro), Blue Dream, East Hampton, 2017.

Ward Bennett, Allen House, Amagansett, circa 1969.

Geller, Esquire Weekend House, 1958 (drawing).

*Top,* Robert Rosenberg, Lewis House, Springs, 1953; *above,* Knox House by night.

Read On

Bubba Weiler His debut play made it Off Broadway; now, for his second act, the emerging star of New York’s indie theater scene is reaching back to his small-town Catholic roots

By Nadine Zylberberg

Read On

Pulp It Up Fresh off last summer’s chart-topping More—their first release in two decades—a newly re-united Pulp, the Brit-pop heroes behind “Common People,” return to London to perform the album in its entirety for the first time

By Spike Carter

Read On

“Sir, your Bloody Mary is on the way. You’re drinking the floral arrangement.”

Holy Spirits Casa Agrícola da Levada, in northern Portugal, offers a tranquil escape among some of the country’s best vineyards—and an unexpected encounter with one of its strangest religious mysteries

By Dana Vachon

Read On

A sweltering British summer: 95 degrees Fahrenheit at London’s Kennington Park, 104 degrees inside the double-decker.

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The View from Here Despite being forced to wear an ankle monitor following a conviction for robbing taxpayers of millions of dollars, France’s far-right politician Marine Le Pen is entering the election fray

Re-Inventing Anna The Russian-born fraudster Anna Sorokin, better known as Anna Delvey, has turned notoriety into a career, with campaigns from Goop to French Playboy—and zero signs of remorse

The Weekly Waffle

A positively addictive word game to go with your morning coffee

The Duke of Hazard Where do Harry’s thrashing in court and chaotic visit to the U.K. leave the duke’s plans to present himself as a moral crusader?

Flocked and Loaded An $8 billion surveillance start-up is turning the roads on the eastern tip of Long Island into a searchable police database. Not everyone is grateful for the protection

Everything a beach house needs, from the essentials to the finishing touches, for long weekends by the water

Randall Poster’s Favorite Things AIR MAIL’s music editor—and the man responsible for some of cinema’s most memorable needle drops—shares his enthusiasm for Neil Young, a Sony boom box, country music, the Criterion Channel, and a Gray’s Papaya hot dog

How Much Is That T. Rex in the Window? With collectors including Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicolas Cage, and Ken Griffin, dead dinosaurs have become supersize status symbols

The AIR MAIL Diary Joey Chestnut swallows 66 wieners, a 1,700-pound bull interrupts a cricket match, and other strange stories from around the globe …

Dress to Impress Why are restaurant salads always so much better? Jordan Frosolone, the chef at New York’s Borgo, reveals his tips and tricks for elevating at-home greens

Some Like It Sleek Clean lines, open plans, boxy silhouettes … a new coffee-table book traces how the eastern tip of Long Island became the proving ground for American modernism

Bubba Weiler His debut play made it Off Broadway; now, for his second act, the emerging star of New York’s indie theater scene is reaching back to his small-town Catholic roots

Pulp It Up Fresh off last summer’s chart-topping More—their first release in two decades—a newly re-united Pulp, the Brit-pop heroes behind “Common People,” return to London to perform the album in its entirety for the first time

Holy Spirits Casa Agrícola da Levada, in northern Portugal, offers a tranquil escape among some of the country’s best vineyards—and an unexpected encounter with one of its strangest religious mysteries

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