{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"August 22, 2026 – Air Mail","description":"Welcome to Air Mail Issue number 371.","favicon":"https://static.airmail.news/assets/icons/apple-touch-icon.png","home_page_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22","feed_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22.json","items":[{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/the-view-from-here","title":"The View from Here","content_text":"Everyone in Israel understands that the country has never been in a more precarious state. It is increasingly isolated and facing accusations of war crimes. It’s fighting a multi-front war that is stretching its military capabilities, and confronting a rising cost of living and a weakening economy, while Israeli society itself is divided. An increasing number of young, educated Israelis are leaving in search of a different future. And yet the future they seek might be on its way.In just under nine weeks, Israel will hold what will likely be its most consequential election in the country’s young ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/the-view-from-here","summary":"Everyone in Israel understands that the country has never been in a more precarious state. It is increasingly isolated and facing accusations of war crimes. It’s fighting a multi-front war that is stretching its military capabilities, and confronting a rising...","tags":["The View from Here","But First ..."],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/t8zjricjkq4xoochi2l52g91kw7m-afd1cc12ae209c1d21e66856a8efbc78.jpg","author":{"name":"Yossi Melman"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/yossi-melman\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eYossi Melman\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"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?","shorts":false,"banner":"But First ...","category":"The View from Here"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/barry-blitts-sketchbook","title":"Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/barry-blitts-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Barry Blitt's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/vq7qc1n9h0fywopc5o0b2xee04yb-2af71726aba55c6300bd41c23a39f605.jpg","author":{"name":"Barry Blitt"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_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/2026-8-22/the-prodigal-spare-returns","title":"The Prodigal Spare Returns!","content_text":"You have to wonder when Harry decided. When did he think, enough, I want to go home? Was it when he had tea with his dad a few weeks ago? Was it when he came over for Invictus, where he excelled at what he does best? We know he’s looked at his kids and wished they could grow up knowing the country of his birth, because he’s told us. Or maybe he just woke up one day to more blue skies in Montecito and thought wistfully of rain pouring down windows.Whenever it was, the news that the worldwide ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/the-prodigal-spare-returns","summary":"You have to wonder when Harry decided. When did he think, enough, I want to go home? Was it when he had tea with his dad a few weeks ago? Was it when he came over for Invictus, where he...","tags":["The Royal Family","Royal Follies"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/54l1hnkp6ign3h6k336do9v0lna0-e4da3b7fbbce2345d7772b0674a318d5.jpg","author":{"name":"Hilary Rose"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/hilary-rose\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eHilary Rose\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"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","shorts":false,"banner":"Royal Follies","category":"The Royal Family"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/sherpas-to-the-jet-set","title":"Sherpas to the Jet Set","content_text":"Late in 30 Rock’s run, Liz Lemon is confronted with the fact that her gig as a comedy writer might not last forever. After one stinging rejection, she’s wandering disconsolately down a gritty New York street when she hears a voice in the distance. “You are one of us now,” says the woman as she emerges, backlit, from a smoke-wreathed alley with two men flanking her.When Liz asks who she is, the woman replies, “Better to ask who we used to be—people whose professions are no longer a thing.” One man is an American autoworker; the other ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/sherpas-to-the-jet-set","summary":"Late in 30 Rock’s run, Liz Lemon is confronted with the fact that her gig as a comedy writer might not last forever. After one stinging rejection, she’s wandering disconsolately down a gritty New York street when she hears a...","tags":["Modern Times","0.1 percent solutions"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/mtkd97ml4lp0a80j91n70dsilps0-47109e1bce9cf55623929b71bc7df73b.jpg","author":{"name":"Mark Ellwood"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/mark-ellwood\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMark Ellwood\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"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","shorts":false,"banner":"0.1 percent solutions","category":"Modern Times"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/the-fantasists-who-fooled-putin","title":"The Fantasists Who Fooled Putin","content_text":"For years, a Moscow widow claimed she was leaving Vladimir Putin one of the world’s greatest art collections: more than 1,000 objects, supposedly worth $2 billion, including works attributed to Leonardo, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Rubens, and Velázquez.The bequest was taken so seriously that a 24-hour police detail was stationed on the street outside her apartment, while city officials relocated her upstairs neighbors in case their plumbing leaked. Putin himself acknowledged the bequest, signing a directive to accept it as state property, and to find a building in which to exhibit it.There was just one problem: it was widely ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/the-fantasists-who-fooled-putin","summary":"For years, a Moscow widow claimed she was leaving Vladimir Putin one of the world’s greatest art collections: more than 1,000 objects, supposedly worth $2 billion, including works attributed to Leonardo, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Rubens, and Velázquez.The bequest was taken so...","tags":["Crime and Scandal","Artful Dodgers"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/wbyu9b78mo5ue8rcijt3wtaq548h-417b83d96a2828d606669a7b0df89585.jpg","author":{"name":"George Nelson"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/george-nelson\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGeorge Nelson\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"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?","shorts":false,"banner":"Artful Dodgers","category":"Crime and Scandal"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/the-air-mail-diary","title":"The AIR MAIL Diary","content_text":"Summertime lazing aside, news continued to erupt around the world, even as the more fortunate made a beeline for lakeside docks, lodges in the mountains, cabanas by the ocean, or—for those so inclined—catering trucks on hot Turkish tarmacs.”Senior Whitehall sources” told The Mail on Sunday that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will, someday, get a “high-profile” funeral, even though his run as the Duke of York has ended and he’s no longer a working royal. The newspaper said that “the controversial arrangement is part of the Government’s so–called ‘bridge’ plans, which lay out—far in advance and in meticulous detail—the funeral arrangements for members of the Royal Family.” That’s nice! Andrew hasn’t had much to look forward to lately. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/the-air-mail-diary","summary":"Summertime lazing aside, news continued to erupt around the world, even as the more fortunate made a beeline for lakeside docks, lodges in the mountains, cabanas by the ocean, or—for those so inclined—catering trucks on hot Turkish tarmacs.”Senior Whitehall sources”...","tags":["News","News of the World"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/ihenrr9ay7u13dixezvd88y4c4pm-42349e66e16f4c007c0cada78dd652ba.jpg","author":{"name":"George Kalogerakis"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/george-kalogerakis\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGeorge Kalogerakis\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Macron’s muscles shock, Mountbatten-Windsor’s burial plans appall, and other strange stories from around the globe …","shorts":false,"banner":"News of the World","category":"News"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/behind-closed-doors","title":"Behind Closed Doors","content_text":"The abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936 for “the woman I love” seemed impossibly romantic at the time ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/behind-closed-doors","summary":"The abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936 for “the woman I love” seemed impossibly romantic at the time ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/9muzheb8cuvpygbhitkaerh0hfm2-84f854c97aa9093dc9c996b8964b0fb2.png","author":{"name":"Jim Kelly"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_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/2026-8-22/the-last-picture-show","title":"The Last Picture Show","content_text":"At once a coming-of-age drama and a portrait of a dying Texas town in the 1950s, The Last Picture Show","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/the-last-picture-show","summary":"At once a coming-of-age drama and a portrait of a dying Texas town in the 1950s, The Last Picture Show","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/wyboxqj0trajobeoq5p7ruv8lkx2-33e83ca51e1a6881b80ef82502af9368.png","author":{"name":"Eve Eismann"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_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/2026-8-22/the-united-states-of-america-with-national-geographic","title":"The United States of America with National Geographic","content_text":"Greece and Italy are great and all ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/the-united-states-of-america-with-national-geographic","summary":"Greece and Italy are great and all ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/rfbovvqv58239jxm0hxcxwvr6uky-27a72faf9d8c6e5278840d8b20b6c615.png","author":{"name":"Jeanne Malle"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jeanne-malle\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJeanne Malle\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"look","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/the-best-of-everything","title":"The Best of Everything","content_text":"Rona Jaffe wrote her debut novel, The Best of Everything, per Hollywood producer Jerry Wald’s request. “I’m looking for a ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/the-best-of-everything","summary":"Rona Jaffe wrote her debut novel, The Best of Everything, per Hollywood producer Jerry Wald’s request. “I’m looking for a ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/wkttwmnpgjbs4m321j1bmavdxvy2-f34a71b485f79da94bd38af50500075a.png","author":{"name":"Gracie Wiener"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/gracie-wiener\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGracie Wiener\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"read","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/herb-alpert-presents-sergio-mendes-brasil-66","title":"Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes \u0026 Brasil ‘66 ","content_text":"Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes \u0026 Brasil ’66, the first album from the group, ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/herb-alpert-presents-sergio-mendes-brasil-66","summary":"Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes \u0026 Brasil ’66, the first album from the group, ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/1jsvbhapn7anyomeh6fuxpcau9pe-a0fb3b6fe378971e9214ead16ce61d9c.png","author":{"name":"Cassidy Sollazzo"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_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/2026-8-22/sabah-x-drakes","title":"Sabah x Drake’s","content_text":"Something handsome this way comes! Sabah, the Turkish-inspired handmade-shoe brand is teaming with the luxurious London men’s-wear ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/sabah-x-drakes","summary":"Something handsome this way comes! Sabah, the Turkish-inspired handmade-shoe brand is teaming with the luxurious London men’s-wear ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/qbdpkbbnmetmspz3n05kcx3cr6gd-18246cc55800750d0e3e7f7bfa6551dc.png","author":{"name":"Gabriella Maestri"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/gabriella-maestri\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGabriella Maestri\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"strut","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/letters-from-scamelot","title":"Letters from Scamelot","content_text":"I thought August was supposed to be the slowest month of the year, but this summer is different. There’s that “Knicks in Five”-Mamdani’s New York-Fifa World Cup-Taylor Swift’s-wedding-magic crackling in the air. No one’s leaving. The eastern tip of Long Island is losing its luster. And on any muggy downtown night, there always seems to be something worth going to. What a delightful surprise!I hope this isn’t too hubristic, too close-to-the-sun, too melting-wings of me to say, but I like to think that my being back in New York—running around with orchids in my hair and a beat-up ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/letters-from-scamelot","summary":"I thought August was supposed to be the slowest month of the year, but this summer is different. There’s that “Knicks in Five”-Mamdani’s New York-Fifa World Cup-Taylor Swift’s-wedding-magic crackling in the air. No one’s leaving. The eastern tip of Long...","tags":["Style","After Hours"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/dyhjg8qh1m25hjrjzj9qdeczp9g0-f69666e6852b4f110d1b5f9a77b09380.jpg","author":{"name":"Caroline Calloway"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/caroline-calloway\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eCaroline Calloway\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"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","shorts":false,"banner":"After Hours","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/cohn-job","title":"Cohn Job","content_text":"“The evil that men do lives after them,” Marc Antony orated in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. “The good is oft interred with their bones.” Such posthumous asymmetry is even more pronounced in the case of Roy Cohn. Best of luck sifting any good from the bony residue of this Rottweiler lawyer and political fixer, who died in 1986 after a banner career dedicated to anti-Communism, persecutorial vendettas, reputational assassination, legal and political skulduggery, Manhattan social climbing, Studio 54 boogalooing, Provincetown sex partying, and miscellaneous villainy.As Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark document in their thumping new biography, American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/cohn-job","summary":"“The evil that men do lives after them,” Marc Antony orated in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. “The good is oft interred with their bones.” Such posthumous asymmetry is even more pronounced in the case of Roy Cohn. Best of luck sifting...","tags":["Books"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/qhb4ntm3lc07gi3g563dbc0yb7rd-3047004ed811a2082682ffe298634d0f.jpg","author":{"name":"James Wolcott"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/james-wolcott\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJames Wolcott\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Books","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/let-them-eat-tarte","title":"Let Them Eat Tarte","content_text":"I’d like to think I know something about delicious desserts. My late mother made a mean graham-cracker-crusted cheesecake from scratch. My late father was partial to strawberries Romanoff. For my 50th-birthday dinner—held in a private room at Blue Hill at Stone Barns—I commissioned the most scrumptious homemade red velvet cake. It was gone instantly.But I wasn’t prepared for the dessert I encountered at the most beautiful wedding a few weeks ago on Nantucket: a massive, 80-pound la tarte tropézienne, three feet and three inches in diameter. I had never heard of it, either. According to La Tarte Tropézienne’s Web site, the tarte is “a delicious brioche generously filled with a tasty blend of two smooth creams, sprinkled with granulated sugar.” I can vouch for its wonderfulness. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/let-them-eat-tarte","summary":"I’d like to think I know something about delicious desserts. My late mother made a mean graham-cracker-crusted cheesecake from scratch. My late father was partial to strawberries Romanoff. For my 50th-birthday dinner—held in a private room at Blue Hill at...","tags":["Food and Drink","Food"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/1q5aj9vnb79pfo8emrg0goewqy41-ef6d3a510878d042dcd59a5b61aac478.jpg","author":{"name":"William D. Cohan"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/william-d-cohan\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eWilliam D. Cohan\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"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","shorts":false,"banner":"Food","category":"Food and Drink"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/hallo-hot-stuff","title":"Hallo, Hot Stuff!","content_text":"Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t say good-bye. Since 1984, when he starred in The Terminator, he has memorably said, “I’ll be back.” It’s a signature catchphrase and, acting aside, Schwarzenegger has indeed come “back” as a successful businessman, film producer, and politician. This time, he returns to the spotlight with a new book from Taschen that celebrates his varied career and continuing charisma as captured by the greats: Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Sante D’Orazio, and even Andy Warhol.The images, however, only tell half the story. Born in the small Austrian village of Thal in 1947, Schwarzenegger began ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/hallo-hot-stuff","summary":"Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t say good-bye. Since 1984, when he starred in The Terminator, he has memorably said, “I’ll be back.” It’s a signature catchphrase and, acting aside, Schwarzenegger has indeed come “back” as a successful businessman, film producer, and politician....","tags":["Books","Open Book"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/8rbboje13byv0aggkne6wdiw17ng-68aa6536e80f910f09f8541b20f1a26a.jpg","author":{"name":"Carolina de Armas"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_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","subhead":"A new coffee-table book pays homage to the bodybuilder turned actor turned governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger","shorts":false,"banner":"Open Book","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/frederik-bille-brahe","title":"Frederik Bille Brahe","content_text":"In Copenhagen, it’s more than common to sit down at a café and see avocado toast on the menu. That wasn’t the case 15 years ago, when René Redzepi’s Noma was taking the city by storm. The idea of mashing avocado onto bread wasn’t new then—the Australian chef Bill Granger had been doing it since the 90s, and home cooks had surely arrived at the pairing on their own. But when Frederik Bille Brahe did it at Atelier September, the glass-fronted space he opened in 2013, it felt unprecedented.Earlier this month, Bille Brahe welcomed his first guests ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/frederik-bille-brahe","summary":"In Copenhagen, it’s more than common to sit down at a café and see avocado toast on the menu. That wasn’t the case 15 years ago, when René Redzepi’s Noma was taking the city by storm. The idea of mashing...","tags":["Food and Drink","Close-up"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/2r57hrx8480vijdj18ad120hgl2d-4fb7dd7ce067daf59cf20e97e55cc1d5.jpg","author":{"name":"Mary Holland"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/mary-holland\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMary Holland\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Thirteen years ago, the Danish chef brought casual cool to Copenhagen’s fine-dining scene. Now he’s opened Daphne, his biggest restaurant yet","shorts":false,"banner":"Close-up","category":"Food and Drink"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/diamonds-are-not-forever","title":"Diamonds Are Not Forever","content_text":"As movements in jewelry go, the Art Nouveau, dating from around 1895 to 1910, was brief. But what it achieved was seismic, thanks to the protean skills and imagination of René Lalique. Today, an exhibition of jewelry and glassworks by Lalique is always cause for celebration. Last month, the newly renovated Lalique Museum, in Doesburg, the Netherlands, opened “Magnificent Jewels! Art Nouveau \u0026 Art Deco Jewelry by René Lalique and Contemporaries.” Nearly 130 pieces by the designer, drawn from the museum’s large collection of 3,000 works as well as from private collections, form the heart of the show.Lalique was born in 1860 in Aÿ, France, and as a young man he went to ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/diamonds-are-not-forever","summary":"As movements in jewelry go, the Art Nouveau, dating from around 1895 to 1910, was brief. But what it achieved was seismic, thanks to the protean skills and imagination of René Lalique. Today, an exhibition of jewelry and glassworks by...","tags":["Culture","Highlight"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/hx90cadukprrh8wki6t9r6q57iwt-4a513a68c699d6176a2d894c324721a2.jpg","author":{"name":"Ruth Peltason"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/ruth-peltason\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eRuth Peltason\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"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","shorts":false,"banner":"Highlight","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/wild-at-heart","title":"Wild at Heart","content_text":"Hope, a restored Victorian-era hunting lodge in northern Scotland, has the good fortune of being situated in an ideal location. The striking seven-bedroom house overlooks Loch Hope, where it flows into the Hope River. In the summer, the landscape is rich and green with views across the water toward the mountains. These views, however, come and go, often obscured by layers of fog. This is Scotland, after all, and you expect that and wear your Barbour.The lodge was painstakingly rebuilt and reopened early this summer. There are drystone walls around the property, slate shingles on the roof, and ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22/wild-at-heart","summary":"Hope, a restored Victorian-era hunting lodge in northern Scotland, has the good fortune of being situated in an ideal location. The striking seven-bedroom house overlooks Loch Hope, where it flows into the Hope River. In the summer, the landscape is...","tags":["Travel","View With a Room"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/45zmisb7mx7x908d8mzqlgj60cnw-f22fa2d4d4fb5de36f1b36fad9bf9058.jpg","author":{"name":"David Coggins"},"date_published":"2026-08-22T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 22, 2026","date":"2026-08-22","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-22"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/david-coggins\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eDavid Coggins\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"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","shorts":false,"banner":"View With a Room","category":"Travel"}}]}