August 22, 2026 – Air Mail

THE SUSSEXES STRIKE BACK

Six years after Megxit, Harry and Meghan are bidding adieu to their jam-filled, sun-soaked life in Montecito and taking their family (and their cameras) back to Britain, where surely bygones will be bygones …

GENERAL ELECTION

Gadi Eisenkot lost his son and two nephews in Israel’s war with Hamas. Now, as the Knesset elections loom, the former general is fighting to end Benjamin Netanyahu’s long, divisive reign …

MENTOR OF DISCONTENT

Before there was Stephen Miller, there was Roy Cohn. James Wolcott reviews Kai Bird’s new biography of Trump’s original fixer, whose poisonous playbook shaped today’s politics …

THE EXTRA MILE

From $80,000 scavenger hunts to emergency private jets, a new breed of travel agent will organize anything—provided you can afford it …

A VOLGA JOKE

A Moscow widow convinced the Kremlin she was bequeathing a $2 billion art collection to Vladimir Putin. After her death, the elaborate myth began to unravel …

THE DOG (AND CAT) DAYS OF DOWNTOWN

Caroline Calloway, Air Mail’s party correspondent, misses a flight, takes her cat to a literary reading, and single-handedly saves New York nightlife. You’re welcome, everyone!

AFFAIRS OF THE TARTE

Invented in St. Tropez in 1955 and named by Brigitte Bardot, la tarte tropézienne has spawned a devoted, deep-pocketed following willing to charter helicopters just to get a taste …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

A hunting lodge in northern Scotland combines civilized pleasure with untamed wilderness … Arnold Schwarzenegger’s journey from muscleman to action hero to political heavyweight … and news of the world you’ll actually want to read, in our latest AIR MAIL Diary …

Issue No. 371

The View from Here Israel’s unlikely savior is a Sephardic career soldier whose family paid the ultimate price in its recent wars. But can he coalesce enough disparate factions to finally end Netanyahu’s poisonous reign?

By Yossi Melman

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The Prodigal Spare Returns! Six years after fleeing royal life for California, Harry and Meghan are returning to Britain—with their children, their grievances, and, perhaps, a camera crew in tow

By Hilary Rose

Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop

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The Weekly Waffle

A positively addictive word game to go with your morning coffee

Sherpas to the Jet Set Travel agents were supposed to be extinct. Instead, they’ve been reborn as fixers for the super-rich—retrieving forgotten jewelry, staging $80,000 scavenger hunts, chartering emergency jets, and ensuring that “No” is never the final answer

By Mark Ellwood

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The Fantasists Who Fooled Putin In 2024, the Russian president was left a mysterious art collection said to be worth $2 billion. Is he the world’s luckiest dictator or the heir to a hoarder’s junk pile?

By George Nelson

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Gondola with the Wind

Everything worth bringing to a city where the scenic route is, more often than not, the only route

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Francesco Carrozzini’s Favorite Things The films, books, objects, and everyday essentials of a director whose eye has been shaped by fashion, cinema, and a lifetime of extraordinary images

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The AIR MAIL Diary Macron’s muscles shock, Mountbatten-Windsor’s burial plans appall, and other strange stories from around the globe …

By George Kalogerakis

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read Behind Closed Doors The abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936 for “the woman I love” seemed impossibly romantic at the time…

watch The Last Picture Show At once a coming-of-age drama and a portrait of a dying Texas town in the 1950s, The Last Picture Show…

look The United States of America with National Geographic Greece and Italy are great and all…

read The Best of Everything Rona Jaffe wrote her debut novel, The Best of Everything, per Hollywood producer Jerry Wald’s request. “I’m looking for a…

listen Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil ‘66 Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, the first album from the group…

strut Sabah x Drake’s Something handsome this way comes! Sabah, the Turkish-inspired handmade-shoe brand is teaming with the luxurious London men’s-wear…

read Behind Closed Doors The abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936 for “the woman I love” seemed impossibly romantic at the time…

watch The Last Picture Show At once a coming-of-age drama and a portrait of a dying Texas town in the 1950s, The Last Picture Show…

look The United States of America with National Geographic Greece and Italy are great and all…

read The Best of Everything Rona Jaffe wrote her debut novel, The Best of Everything, per Hollywood producer Jerry Wald’s request. “I’m looking for a…

listen Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil ‘66 Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, the first album from the group…

strut Sabah x Drake’s Something handsome this way comes! Sabah, the Turkish-inspired handmade-shoe brand is teaming with the luxurious London men’s-wear…

Letters from Scamelot In her latest party report, Caroline Calloway misses a flight and turns up at a Chinatown reading in travel sweatpants, meets a personal hero, and brings the house down in front of her latest fling

By Caroline Calloway

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James Wolcott On

American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump

by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark

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Let Them Eat Tarte It seems no distance is too great for the smart set in pursuit of the tarte tropézienne—the cult St. Tropez dessert whose recipe remains a tightly guarded secret

By William D. Cohan

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In Southampton

Judy Glickman Lauder’s photography collection, which includes works by Dorothea Lange and Norman Seeff, goes on view…

In New York

The Whitney presents the art of Minnie Evans, the self-taught Black artist whose first solo show was held at the museum 50 years ago…

In London

Cate Blanchett takes the stage in a new National Theatre production that fuses Sophocles’s Electra with Ingmar Bergman’s Persona…

In Theaters

Leslie Mann stars in Spa Weekend, a new comedy about a restorative girls’ trip that goes off the rails when an unexpected guest turns up…

In Basel

The Kunstmuseum Basel brings together more than 50 works by Roy Lichtenstein, spanning linocuts, lithographs, and silkscreens…

On HBO

The director of Tiger King returns with Monsters of God, a new series on the billion-dollar underworld of exotic-reptile smuggling…

Hallo, Hot Stuff! A new coffee-table book pays homage to the bodybuilder turned actor turned governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, photographed by Albert Busek, as part of a promotional shoot for his gym, Graz, Austria, 1967.

*Top,* Schwarzenegger, photographed by Busek, in Venice, Los Angeles, 1980; *above,* Schwarzenegger on the set of the comedy western *The Villain,* 1979.

Photographed by Greg Gorman, Beverly Hills, 1985.

*Top,* with his friend Erika Zimmerman, film directors Roman Polanski and Bob Rafelson, and model Nastassja Kinski, as photographed by Artie Zeller, Santa Monica, 1974; *above,* with the stuffed crocodile he kept from the set of *Eraser,* Santa Monica.

Photographed by Jimmy Caruso at the Mr. Olympia contest, Brooklyn, 1969.

*Top,* painting a still life on the beach; *above,* Governor Schwarzenegger, as photographed by Peter Grisby in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., 2009.

*Top,* photographed by Max Aguilera-Hellweg at California Hall, San Francisco, 1975; *above,* photographed by Jean Pigozzi, with Mick Jagger and the film director Richard Blanshard, at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, Antibes, 1990.

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Frederik Bille Brahe Thirteen years ago, the Danish chef brought casual cool to Copenhagen’s fine-dining scene. Now he’s opened Daphne, his biggest restaurant yet

By Mary Holland

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Diamonds Are Not Forever An exhibition in the Netherlands celebrates René Lalique, the French jeweler who closed the door on the Belle Époque and ushered in a livelier, less formal chapter in the history of the craft

By Ruth Peltason

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Wild at Heart At Wildland’s latest luxury lodge on the banks of Loch Hope, 100,000 acres of Highland wilderness meet rare antiques, single malts, and old-fashioned Scottish hospitality

By David Coggins

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The View from Here Israel’s unlikely savior is a Sephardic career soldier whose family paid the ultimate price in its recent wars. But can he coalesce enough disparate factions to finally end Netanyahu’s poisonous reign?

The Prodigal Spare Returns! Six years after fleeing royal life for California, Harry and Meghan are returning to Britain—with their children, their grievances, and, perhaps, a camera crew in tow

The Weekly Waffle

A positively addictive word game to go with your morning coffee

Sherpas to the Jet Set Travel agents were supposed to be extinct. Instead, they’ve been reborn as fixers for the super-rich—retrieving forgotten jewelry, staging $80,000 scavenger hunts, chartering emergency jets, and ensuring that “No” is never the final answer

The Fantasists Who Fooled Putin In 2024, the Russian president was left a mysterious art collection said to be worth $2 billion. Is he the world’s luckiest dictator or the heir to a hoarder’s junk pile?

Everything worth bringing to a city where the scenic route is, more often than not, the only route

Francesco Carrozzini’s Favorite Things The films, books, objects, and everyday essentials of a director whose eye has been shaped by fashion, cinema, and a lifetime of extraordinary images

The AIR MAIL Diary Macron’s muscles shock, Mountbatten-Windsor’s burial plans appall, and other strange stories from around the globe …

Letters from Scamelot In her latest party report, Caroline Calloway misses a flight and turns up at a Chinatown reading in travel sweatpants, meets a personal hero, and brings the house down in front of her latest fling

Let Them Eat Tarte It seems no distance is too great for the smart set in pursuit of the tarte tropézienne—the cult St. Tropez dessert whose recipe remains a tightly guarded secret

Hallo, Hot Stuff! A new coffee-table book pays homage to the bodybuilder turned actor turned governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Frederik Bille Brahe Thirteen years ago, the Danish chef brought casual cool to Copenhagen’s fine-dining scene. Now he’s opened Daphne, his biggest restaurant yet

Diamonds Are Not Forever An exhibition in the Netherlands celebrates René Lalique, the French jeweler who closed the door on the Belle Époque and ushered in a livelier, less formal chapter in the history of the craft

Wild at Heart At Wildland’s latest luxury lodge on the banks of Loch Hope, 100,000 acres of Highland wilderness meet rare antiques, single malts, and old-fashioned Scottish hospitality

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