{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"August 1, 2026 – Air Mail","description":"Welcome to Air Mail Issue number 368.","favicon":"https://static.airmail.news/assets/icons/apple-touch-icon.png","home_page_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1","feed_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1.json","items":[{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/the-view-from-here","title":"The View from Here","content_text":"“No one could believe it. Who would do such a thing? Who would kill people he didn’t even know?” That was the ABC Radio News journalist Charles Osgood, channeling the nation’s shock and asking sincere, non-rhetorical questions during a grim “Special Report” on August 2, 1966. A day earlier, not long before noon, Charles Whitman, a 25-year-old engineering student at the University of Texas, had taken an elevator and then a staircase to the observation deck of the school’s 28-story bell tower. Dressed as a maintenance man, he brought with him two hunting rifles, a carbine rifle, a shotgun, three handguns, and a machete, stowed in a foot locker. He fired his first shot from the observation deck at 11:48 ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/the-view-from-here","summary":"“No one could believe it. Who would do such a thing? Who would kill people he didn’t even know?” That was the ABC Radio News journalist Charles Osgood, channeling the nation’s shock and asking sincere, non-rhetorical questions during a grim...","tags":["The View from Here","But First ..."],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/3ebuilctkvm8x84pbmd0pkmrrtxs-73b1af8a6e7864e7a5bb541b82dafd36.jpg","author":{"name":"Bruce Handy"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/bruce-handy\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eBruce Handy\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Six decades on, the most shocking thing about the 1966 mass shooting at the University of Texas is how routine such gruesome events would become","shorts":false,"banner":"But First ...","category":"The View from Here"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/barry-blitts-sketchbook","title":"Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/barry-blitts-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Barry Blitt's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/9z3uwmdrmc1e0dd55p3jwv2jc9z9-0b82639fb43ddb7a8708225fa9c50c9a.jpeg","author":{"name":"Barry Blitt"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_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/2026-8-1/the-eyes-of-a-killer-part-xii","title":"The Eyes of a Killer: Part XII","content_text":"Strategy is patience. You have your plan and you keep it close. No need to hurry. No need to rush. You have all the plays locked in your mind.So you make your move, and then you wait—until it’s time to push the next piece across the board. There’s no fear. You know no power on earth can touch you. You are fortified by a hidden strength. Because you possess something they don’t: You know the whole story. You were there.Just when it seemed that Bryan Kohberger, a self-confessed multiple murderer, had been locked away forever, the key to his cell as good as thrown away, the 31-year-old former criminal-justice grad student resurfaced. “My actual innocence is my truth,” he trumpeted in a defiant statement he released to ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/the-eyes-of-a-killer-part-xii","summary":"Strategy is patience. You have your plan and you keep it close. No need to hurry. No need to rush. You have all the plays locked in your mind.So you make your move, and then you wait—until it’s time to...","tags":["Crime and Scandal","In Cold Blood"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ftia6fe1r4klgcu0tdi74skoxkqx-9fdc0c85e052385beaaf2da7a8dab85c.jpg","author":{"name":"Howard Blum"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/howard-blum\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eHoward Blum\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"This week, Bryan Kohberger withdrew his guilty plea for the murder of four University of Idaho students, seemingly without the help of a lawyer. What’s his next move?","shorts":false,"banner":"In Cold Blood","category":"Crime and Scandal"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/shvo-me-the-money","title":"Shvo Me the Money!","content_text":"Upon returning home to Israel after his first trip to America, in 1978, Michael Shvo drew a picture of himself standing next to the 853-foot Transamerica Pyramid, in San Francisco. Crayons, primary colors, stick figures: nothing out of the ordinary for a six-year-old. But, for Shvo, it was love at first sight. “For me this was the American Dream,” he said.In 2020, thanks in part to the financial backing of Germany’s largest public pension fund, Shvo finally got the keys to the landmark tower for $650 million. The transaction was touted by civic and business leaders as a symbol of San Francisco’s resilience and a bellwether of a post-pandemic office-market rebound. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/shvo-me-the-money","summary":"Upon returning home to Israel after his first trip to America, in 1978, Michael Shvo drew a picture of himself standing next to the 853-foot Transamerica Pyramid, in San Francisco. Crayons, primary colors, stick figures: nothing out of the ordinary...","tags":["News","unreal estate"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/rsqg1bmfyc3kthz7l920n7emnciy-a957a70c8ab21c89385c1386020d3b1c.jpg","author":{"name":"Matt Kapp"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/matt-kapp\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMatt Kapp\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The outsize developer Michael Shvo has lost his crown jewel—the Transamerica Pyramid—and is battling former friends, aggrieved partners, and angry tenants. He’s survived spectacular reversals before. Can he rise again?","shorts":false,"banner":"unreal estate","category":"News"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/meghans-picture-imperfect","title":"Meghan’s Picture Imperfect","content_text":"The big question raised by the latest photo dump from Montecito isn’t where they are. Scotland, Althorp, whatever. As you scroll through the Sussexes’ summer of barefoot, leisured luxury, the big question is this: why are they always so furious? When their lives are so gilded, so impossibly blessed, how can they muster so much rage?Meghan has posted 12 pictures to her Instagram detailing their summer holidays with their two young children, and their lives are like a glossy magazine shoot, but better: Meghan relaxing on a sunlounger, Harry running into the waves with the kids, alfresco lunches in seaside restaurants near the second home they are believed to have bought in a luxury development on Portugal’s Atlantic coast. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/meghans-picture-imperfect","summary":"The big question raised by the latest photo dump from Montecito isn’t where they are. Scotland, Althorp, whatever. As you scroll through the Sussexes’ summer of barefoot, leisured luxury, the big question is this: why are they always so furious?...","tags":["The Royal Family","Royal Follies"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/9ttyg9540wm26ufmg7vqoxwbt8dj-d3fa17ff84689704e931d022075594b5.jpg","author":{"name":"Hilary Rose"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/hilary-rose\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eHilary Rose\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The Sussexes’ summer photo dump reveals a life of barefoot luxury—and leaves one mystery unresolved: What are they so furious about?","shorts":false,"banner":"Royal Follies","category":"The Royal Family"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/cap-fear","title":"Cap Fear","content_text":"Benoît Bartherotte is the owner of perhaps the most beautiful house in the world—a broad, caramel-wood cabin at the very tip of the peninsula of Cap Ferret, shaded on all sides by wide verandas and balconies, and sheltered from the gentle sea-spray by fig trees, palms, and towering stone pines. But he won’t be spending much time in it this weekend.Instead, Bartherotte—a former fashion designer turned self-appointed guardian of France’s most coveted spit of land—is busy constructing a vast trench, a firebreak some 200 feet wide, using a trio of heavy-duty forklifts. “We’ve been working nonstop since the machines arrived at noon to protect the Pointe,” he told a local news channel on Saturday. “They’re our machines, and our men.” ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/cap-fear","summary":"Benoît Bartherotte is the owner of perhaps the most beautiful house in the world—a broad, caramel-wood cabin at the very tip of the peninsula of Cap Ferret, shaded on all sides by wide verandas and balconies, and sheltered from the...","tags":["The Planet","paradise lost"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/v8x7ordpt95ji4xk1uyboits5f55-7ae77168dcc2bde88d105258d4d65e2d.jpg","author":{"name":"Joseph Bullmore"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/joseph-bullmore\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJoseph Bullmore\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The pine-shaded playground of the Parisian smart set, Cap Ferret, has been evacuated as wildfires creep ever closer. Can it be saved?","shorts":false,"banner":"paradise lost","category":"The Planet"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/a-tale-of-two-names","title":"A Tale of Two Names","content_text":"The paradox of Tony Bourdain has occupied my memory of him all these years A.B. (After Bourdain). My son, Gio, born on Bourdain’s 44th birthday—June 25, 2000, two weeks after Kitchen Confidential hit the New York Times best-seller list—captured this paradox hilariously one evening. “Wait, what?” Gio, then a young teen, asked. “Tony Bourdain and Anthony Bourdain aren’t brothers? They’re the same person?”Up to that point, Gio hadn’t considered that the Tony who had come to our family holidays, or stayed at our house on the Jersey Shore, could also be the TV personality Anthony Bourdain. The moment ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/a-tale-of-two-names","summary":"The paradox of Tony Bourdain has occupied my memory of him all these years A.B. (After Bourdain). My son, Gio, born on Bourdain’s 44th birthday—June 25, 2000, two weeks after Kitchen Confidential hit the New York Times best-seller list—captured this...","tags":["Film and Television","Adventures in Food"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/c64u07uab7cixvrgssrdxfvg3itq-08416a1342c45591cb317bcda66057c4.jpg","author":{"name":"Karen Rinaldi"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/karen-rinaldi\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eKaren Rinaldi\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The editor of \u003cem\u003eKitchen Confidential \u003c/em\u003eattempts to reconcile Tony Bourdain, the socially awkward man she counted as a close friend, and Anthony Bourdain, the cool-cat world traveler the world came to love","shorts":false,"banner":"Adventures in Food","category":"Film and Television"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/the-jackal","title":"The Jackal","content_text":"Long before Osama bin Laden became the world’s most infamous terrorist, there was Carlos the Jackal, who burst into the international ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/the-jackal","summary":"Long before Osama bin Laden became the world’s most infamous terrorist, there was Carlos the Jackal, who burst into the international ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/edsvbjjg65hv48yrw8ehuxgvnqkw-2457bb9e105b153ddbb7f886049d6fa6.png","author":{"name":"Jim Kelly"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_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/2026-8-1/amarees","title":"A’maree’s","content_text":"New Yorkers won’t want to hear this. Parisians and Milanese, even less so. But the greatest store in the world (and the style set’s best-kept secret) ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/amarees","summary":"New Yorkers won’t want to hear this. Parisians and Milanese, even less so. But the greatest store in the world (and the style set’s best-kept secret) ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/texu3mqxrvp028uosfmlm5y7d52v-554a42e50d71e0a6d648761027f29807.png","author":{"name":"Victoria Herman"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/victoria-herman\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eVictoria Herman\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"shop","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/good-shirts","title":"Good Shirts","content_text":"The Internet is full of useless slop—uncurated, jarring, and often vile. John Mannheimer’s Instagram account, Good Shirts, is the exception ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/good-shirts","summary":"The Internet is full of useless slop—uncurated, jarring, and often vile. John Mannheimer’s Instagram account, Good Shirts, is the exception ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/5tymv1dop3sooj355fiaahgay6az-f087a5da5cd30d43aeeb9ceb3dee0755.png","author":{"name":"Gabriella Maestri"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/gabriella-maestri\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGabriella Maestri\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"shop","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/le-bonheur","title":"Le Bonheur","content_text":"Through pastel palettes and recurring motifs of sunflowers, Agnès Varda crafts a poignant meditation on marriage, love, and life’s absurdities ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/le-bonheur","summary":"Through pastel palettes and recurring motifs of sunflowers, Agnès Varda crafts a poignant meditation on marriage, love, and life’s absurdities ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/eoyrrr2xtxec8tkj2sbjqo191qm9-daf75c269799f7112fc529ad72307176.png","author":{"name":"Eve Eismann"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_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/2026-8-1/reome","title":"Reome","content_text":"It’s not often that British skin care inspires much conversation, but Reome gives us plenty to talk about. Formulated using","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/reome","summary":"It’s not often that British skin care inspires much conversation, but Reome gives us plenty to talk about. Formulated using","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/vsc2s5gfrl91pgt84fdzb4yglcyz-599e919cf79ce3112cb660f10dea04b8.png","author":{"name":"Gracie Wiener"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/gracie-wiener\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGracie Wiener\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"apply","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/graceland","title":"Graceland","content_text":"Now regarded as Paul Simon’s magnum opus, Graceland turns 40 this month—a fitting excuse for AIR MAIL to revisit it ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/graceland","summary":"Now regarded as Paul Simon’s magnum opus, Graceland turns 40 this month—a fitting excuse for AIR MAIL to revisit it ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/hnc93md6xefith9gaf2v8j6ut7u3-1ea3bd945095e4040740243a70ebe7b8.png","author":{"name":"Cassidy Sollazzo"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/cassidy-sollazzo\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eCassidy Sollazzo\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"listen","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/the-art-of-small-things","title":"The Art of Small Things","content_text":"The most consequential object on our trip to Rome last summer was a paper fan bought from a street vendor for three euros. My youngest child had reached that particular shade of pinkish red that suggests imminent structural failure—the sort no amount of gelato can fix—and the fan, small, folding, entirely without pretension, became the hardest-working item we had in Europe. More useful than my suitcase. More appreciated than the hotel. A piece of paper accomplishing what centuries of Roman engineering, Pantheon included, somehow could not: moving the air. I, meanwhile, had packed three pairs of sunglasses and nothing capable of producing a breeze. I’ve thought about that fan ever since. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/the-art-of-small-things","summary":"The most consequential object on our trip to Rome last summer was a paper fan bought from a street vendor for three euros. My youngest child had reached that particular shade of pinkish red that suggests imminent structural failure—the sort...","tags":["Style","Notes on an Aesthetic"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/fpdj6zrf73grokl2wsw24qw1s9fl-832177f6c0e242da1abae1c673e04557.jpg","author":{"name":"Jennifer Noyes"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jennifer-noyes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJennifer Noyes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The best accessories are rarely the expensive ones. They’re the ones that quietly rescue the day—then disappear back into your bag","shorts":false,"banner":"Notes on an Aesthetic","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/free-falling","title":"Free-Falling","content_text":"Richard Russo likes to set his novels in upstate New York—small towns that were once prosperous and now aren’t, venues for his characters to work blue-collar jobs, fall in love, fight, make up, die. Much of that happens in Stone Mountain, the fictional town in the Adirondacks where Russo centers his latest book, Under the Falls. Driving through it, we find an “abandoned pizza joint,” errant cats, a guy living in a forgotten school bus, and a “long stretch of nothing.” It’s a place, writes Russo, “that doesn’t yield many good outcomes.”So, it’s similar to the environs of Russo’s previous, lengthier novels— ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/free-falling","summary":"Richard Russo likes to set his novels in upstate New York—small towns that were once prosperous and now aren’t, venues for his characters to work blue-collar jobs, fall in love, fight, make up, die. Much of that happens in Stone...","tags":["Books"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/z3w5zbyeu74pmoxe76a9simmmcin-b6ae30bf22c9add2bf6109d741e5d2df.jpg","author":{"name":"Jack Sullivan"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jack-sullivan\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJack Sullivan\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Books","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/the-director-and-the-madman","title":"The Director and the Madman","content_text":"On a sunny Friday, August 8, 1969, Roman Polanski was in his elegant townhome in London working with his producer on the pre-production details for his next big project, The Day of the Dolphin, a high-profile film he was set to direct for United Artists. He was on top of the world—considered by the press, the public, and the Hollywood studios to be one of the most important, acclaimed, and successful film directors in the world.More than 5,400 miles away, his wife, the stunning and talented Sharon Tate—eight months pregnant and glowing with anticipation—was hosting friends at their ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/the-director-and-the-madman","summary":"On a sunny Friday, August 8, 1969, Roman Polanski was in his elegant townhome in London working with his producer on the pre-production details for his next big project, The Day of the Dolphin, a high-profile film he was set...","tags":["Books","Inside Story"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/638aauw1khv3y4qex3uoburxsdku-f7ddd0aa3c3f31b8df7bc3d18912d74e.jpg","author":{"name":"Peter Rowe"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/peter-rowe\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003ePeter Rowe\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Born one year apart, Roman Polanski and Charles Manson lived eerily parallel lives for years before finally intersecting at the brutal murder of Sharon Tate","shorts":false,"banner":"Inside Story","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/the-black-sheep-of-british-art","title":"The Black Sheep of British Art","content_text":"A middle-aged man, his beard streaked with white, is seated in front of a circular canvas on which faint outlines of figures are discernible. Holding a paintbrush to the picture surface, he is looking away from the canvas, his pale eyes trained on something only he can see. This is the artist Richard Dadd, photographed in London’s Bethlem Hospital around 1857, more than a decade after he was incarcerated at the national institution, which treated “the criminally insane.” In 1843, Dadd killed his father after developing symptoms of what would now be diagnosed as schizophrenia; he essentially vanished into the Victorian psychiatric system, where he remained until his death, in 1886. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/the-black-sheep-of-british-art","summary":"A middle-aged man, his beard streaked with white, is seated in front of a circular canvas on which faint outlines of figures are discernible. Holding a paintbrush to the picture surface, he is looking away from the canvas, his pale...","tags":["Culture","Highlight"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/kld942sisvhpnodwvfmb4u1qc8s9-b2a547bbd72075cc6ad9849f02d80aaa.jpg","author":{"name":"Andrew Pulver"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/andrew-pulver\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAndrew Pulver\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"An exhibition in London spotlights Richard Dadd, the Victorian artist who created most of his works while hospitalized after killing his father","shorts":false,"banner":"Highlight","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/a-special-delivery","title":"A Special Delivery","content_text":"In the hamlet of Cataract, in Caledon, about an hour’s drive north of Toronto, the Liberty Inn has transformed a stone post office built in 1855 into a five-suite retreat. Set on the edge of Forks of the Credit Provincial Park, within Ontario’s Greenbelt of protected forests, wetlands, and Niagara Escarpment hills, this stretch of “horse country” has long been a favorite weekend escape for Torontonians, with hiking trails, winter skiing, horseback riding, farmers’ markets, and a small but vibrant arts community.The innkeepers—the ceramist Jacqui Liberty and the former Shopify vice president Bruno Roldan—approached the restoration of the ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/a-special-delivery","summary":"In the hamlet of Cataract, in Caledon, about an hour’s drive north of Toronto, the Liberty Inn has transformed a stone post office built in 1855 into a five-suite retreat. Set on the edge of Forks of the Credit Provincial...","tags":["Travel","View With a Room"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/d164hxda9cb08c39utrfvo1z6kiu-5e40574d9651e2f52ac5a74cc039fd23.jpg","author":{"name":"Victoria Malloy"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/victoria-malloy\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eVictoria Malloy\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Tucked away in Caledon, Ontario—Canada’s answer to the Cotswolds—a historic 19th-century post office gets a second life as a tranquil woodland retreat and spa","shorts":false,"banner":"View With a Room","category":"Travel"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/klaus-kremmerzs-sketchbook","title":"Klaus Kremmerz’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1/klaus-kremmerzs-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/r6bldc4g6inyak296t3i81cenm09-52ba486ea0294d7dec47b875e96329f4.jpg","author":{"name":"Klaus Kremmerz"},"date_published":"2026-08-01T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 1, 2026","date":"2026-08-01","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-1"},"_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":"Sketchbook","category":"Sketchbook"}}]}