June 7, 2025 – Air Mail

BAD ACTOR

Allegations about Jared Leto’s improprieties with younger women have swirled around him for decades. In an AIR MAIL exclusive, the actor’s accusers are finally speaking out …

WAR AND PEACE

In the midst of Ukrainian drone attacks and increased repression by Putin, many Russians hope that Trump—the “Savior from Mar-a-Lago”—will deliver an end to the war …

SPEAKING POWER TO POWER

Johann Rupert’s shooting down of Trump’s white-genocide claim was a master class in diplomacy—and a rare public appearance for Africa’s richest man …

WHO LET THE DOGE OUT?

Musk arrived in government promising to slash spending by $2 trillion. He leaves it $1.86 trillion short of that target—and at the mercy of Tesla investors demanding he save the company, whose stock he has tanked …

Electric Dreams

Can a small business build the Rolls-Royce of America in a sleepy New York town? Our car columnist takes stock of the Dacora, which promises to be the toast of the high-end-E.V. market …

ANATOMY OF A BREAKUP

Oasis’s last tour, in 2008, was riven by fights, freak-outs, and sibling rivalry. We go behind the scenes …

CHARM OFFENSIVE

Our social-media manager goes inside TikTok’s latest viral trend: hiring witches’ services on Etsy, for anywhere from $1 to $50,000 …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE …

Is this the end of Hollywood? … the real Jay Gatsby … the Wild West’s violent rogues, revisited … Ted Lasso, but for golf … horse doping is rampant, but is everyone who tests positive guilty? … Molly Jong-Fast can’t stomach oat milk—or Robert Caro’s The Power Broker … Is Musk or Trump this week’s biggest Attention Whore?

Issue No. 308

The View from Here Russians love Trump because they fantasize he will end the Ukraine war on terms favorable to Moscow

By Katya V.

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Band of Brothers How the Gallagher siblings broke up Oasis five minutes before going onstage in front of 40,000 people

By John Robb

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The Cult of Leto He has acted in everything from American Psycho to House of Gucci. Now Jared Leto stands accused of impropriety by nine women

By Elena Clavarino

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Hollywood’s Reckoning After five years of hardship, from the pandemic to the writers’ strike to the wildfires, Los Angeles is no longer the movie hub it once was. Can it come back?

By Lois Beckett

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Summer Stock

With but 12 weeks until Labor Day, AIR SUPPLY is here to ensure you’re prepared to bask in summer’s precious glow

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Kevin Wendle’s Favorite Things The owner of Tulum’s Hotel Esencia recommends offering Lalo Tequila, Autumn Sonata towels by the pool, and a bathroom stocked with Augustinus Bader

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The Attention-Whore Index Two former champions collide—swollen head to swollen head—in our special Trump vs. Musk poll. But which blowhard billionaire blustered the best?

By George Kalogerakis

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The DOGE Days Are Over After failing to slash much of anything but his own reputation and company stock, Musk has finally left the White House—and declared all-out war on his former boss

By Marina Hyde

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READ So Far Gone We here at Air Mail have long been fans of Jess Walter, partly because his range as a novelist is so inventive but mostly because…

VISIT Loewe Craft Prize Exhibition The Loewe Foundation’s Craft Prize, in which a renowned group of judges considers and debates…

SIP NOAM What a relief it is when gorgeous packaging isn’t just a gimmick to distract from a subpar product. NOAM features perhaps…

CARRY Nili Lotan There are weekender bags, and then there’s the Voyager—a quietly commanding addition to Nili Lotan’s repertoire…

Sail The Mark Sailboat The Mark Hotel’s one-of-a-kind 70-foot Herreshoff sailboat returns to New York, offering an elegant way to take in the city…

dine Canteen Canteen, a much-hyped Italian restaurant at the very top of the Portobello Road, in London, opened in October…

READ So Far Gone We here at Air Mail have long been fans of Jess Walter, partly because his range as a novelist is so inventive but mostly because…

VISIT Loewe Craft Prize Exhibition The Loewe Foundation’s Craft Prize, in which a renowned group of judges considers and debates…

SIP NOAM What a relief it is when gorgeous packaging isn’t just a gimmick to distract from a subpar product. NOAM features perhaps…

CARRY Nili Lotan There are weekender bags, and then there’s the Voyager—a quietly commanding addition to Nili Lotan’s repertoire…

Sail The Mark Sailboat The Mark Hotel’s one-of-a-kind 70-foot Herreshoff sailboat returns to New York, offering an elegant way to take in the city…

dine Canteen Canteen, a much-hyped Italian restaurant at the very top of the Portobello Road, in London, opened in October…

Set for Summer A film camera that takes just-good-enough photos! Cure your snoring with … a kettle? Piss off the street urchins by giving them your phone! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

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Coachbuilding Goes Electric Dacora Motors, which hopes to be the Rolls-Royce of America, is putting an E.V. twist on car-making for the 1 percent

By Jamie Kitman

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The Wicked Witches of Etsy Finding witches to do your bidding, be it casting a spell on a crush or a curse on a boss, is now as easy as paying $15 on the mom-and-pop online marketplace

By Gracie Wiener

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Luxury Diplomacy When Trump started spouting conspiracy theories about a white genocide in South Africa, the continent’s richest man stepped in to correct the record

By George Pendle

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The Real Jay Gatsby Did F. Scott Fitzgerald model his titular character after his real-life Princeton school-mate?

By Simon de Bruxelles

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHOP CHOPPISH SHOP

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The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild

by Bryan Burrough

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Dark Horses Inside the murky world of doping in Thoroughbred horse racing

By Katie Bo Lillis

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A Night Celebrating Étoile On Tuesday evening, Eric Stoltz, Carol Kane, and others gathered at Fouquet’s to celebrate Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino’s new series

By Jeanne Malle

Photographs by Daniel Paik

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*Top,* Laila Robins and Coco Mitchell; *above,* Alex Lundqvist, Daniel Benedict, and Ryan Cooper.

*Top,* Daniel Palladino, Amy Sherman-Palladino, and Alessandra Stanley; *above,* Tovah Feldshuh.

*Top,* Rose Dergan and Will Cotton; *above,* Jackie Hoffman and Steven Smyth.

*Top,* Eric Stoltz; *above,* Jordan Hall and Laya DeLeon Hayes.

*Top,* Adrian Martinez, Laila Robins and Carol Kane; *above,* Andrew Saffir and Amy Fine Collins.

*Top,* Alyssa Lindaas and Robin Marsicano; *above,* Anina Van Alstine.

*Top,* Brian Morabito, Ryan Cooper, and Mick Szal; *above,* Sarah Ramos and Rachel Antonoff.

*Top,* Kim Director, Erin Althaus, and Jenna Leigh Green; *above,* Vlada Roslyakova.

*Top,* Sophie Sumner; *above,* Amy Sherman-Palladino.

*Top,* Keytt Lundqvist; *above,* Eric Stoltz and Andrew Reyniak.

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Celine Song A stint as a matchmaker inspired the Past Lives director’s latest film, starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans

By Nadine Zylberberg

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Big Stick Energy Owen Wilson’s new Apple TV+ golf sitcom might be the new Ted Lasso

By Rhik Samadder

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Inside Jared Leto’s Sex Scandal On this week’s podcast, Elena Clavarino discusses her report on the women who have accused the actor of grooming

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Louis Tunes A new monograph collects the eccentric, avant-garde illustrations of Louis M. Glackens, the satirical cartoonist and longtime staff artist at Puck

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*No Limit,* the cover of *Puck’*s September 22, 1909, issue, by Louis M. Glackens.

*Theatre Designed for the “Tired Business Man,”* May 9, 1914.

*Top,* *The Yellow Press,* October 12, 1910; *above,* *Hurry Up Girls—Here Comes the Customers,* undated.

*In the Republican Dark-Room,* March 2, 1910.

*“The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring, Tra-La!,”* April 24, 1912.

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Beyond Repair As secondhand-clothing sales boom, the fashion brand Toast is making old clothes better than new

By Spike Carter

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The month of May, from a calendar in Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, by the Limbourg brothers, 1411–16.

The arts patrons of today could learn something from Jean, the Duke of Berry. The third son of John II, the king of France from 1350 to 1364, Jean had a treasure chest of disposable income, which never hurts. But he had something more important than money—incredible taste. Around 1410, the duke commissioned an object that is a splendor of human history, recently described by the Financial Times as the “world’s most beautiful book.” READ ON

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“I don’t like crackers, I abhor bad grammar, and I refuse to refer to myself in the third person.”

Slow Burn A British fashion photographer is drawing the style set to Hotel Corazón, her laid-back getaway on a romantic Spanish island

By Aimee Farrell

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Molly Jong-Fast

On the heels of her new mother-daughter memoir, the journalist and podcaster shares her least favorite things

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“Rife with profanity.” “Discussion of feminism.” “Soft pornography.” These are just a few ludicrous reasons given for banning books, but can anyone really think the colorful, child-like images in Eric Carle’s *Draw Me a Star* are porn? Here at AIR MAIL, we think banned books are the most important ones you can read. Stop by our newsstand at 546 Hudson Street in New York City to browse a large selection of banned titles, such as Toni Morrison’s *Beloved,* Margaret Atwood’s *The Handmaid’s Tale,* James Baldwin’s *Go Tell It on the Mountain,* and even Carle’s sweet picture book.

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The View from Here Russians love Trump because they fantasize he will end the Ukraine war on terms favorable to Moscow

Band of Brothers How the Gallagher siblings broke up Oasis five minutes before going onstage in front of 40,000 people

The Cult of Leto He has acted in everything from American Psycho to House of Gucci. Now Jared Leto stands accused of impropriety by nine women

Hollywood’s Reckoning After five years of hardship, from the pandemic to the writers’ strike to the wildfires, Los Angeles is no longer the movie hub it once was. Can it come back?

With but 12 weeks until Labor Day, AIR SUPPLY is here to ensure you’re prepared to bask in summer’s precious glow

Kevin Wendle’s Favorite Things The owner of Tulum’s Hotel Esencia recommends offering Lalo Tequila, Autumn Sonata towels by the pool, and a bathroom stocked with Augustinus Bader

The Attention-Whore Index Two former champions collide—swollen head to swollen head—in our special Trump vs. Musk poll. But which blowhard billionaire blustered the best?

The DOGE Days Are Over After failing to slash much of anything but his own reputation and company stock, Musk has finally left the White House—and declared all-out war on his former boss

Set for Summer A film camera that takes just-good-enough photos! Cure your snoring with … a kettle? Piss off the street urchins by giving them your phone! And more …

Coachbuilding Goes Electric Dacora Motors, which hopes to be the Rolls-Royce of America, is putting an E.V. twist on car-making for the 1 percent

The Wicked Witches of Etsy Finding witches to do your bidding, be it casting a spell on a crush or a curse on a boss, is now as easy as paying $15 on the mom-and-pop online marketplace

Luxury Diplomacy When Trump started spouting conspiracy theories about a white genocide in South Africa, the continent’s richest man stepped in to correct the record

The Real Jay Gatsby Did F. Scott Fitzgerald model his titular character after his real-life Princeton school-mate?

Dark Horses Inside the murky world of doping in Thoroughbred horse racing

A Night Celebrating Étoile On Tuesday evening, Eric Stoltz, Carol Kane, and others gathered at Fouquet’s to celebrate Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino’s new series

Celine Song A stint as a matchmaker inspired the Past Lives director’s latest film, starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans

Big Stick Energy Owen Wilson’s new Apple TV+ golf sitcom might be the new Ted Lasso

Inside Jared Leto’s Sex Scandal On this week’s podcast, Elena Clavarino discusses her report on the women who have accused the actor of grooming

Louis Tunes A new monograph collects the eccentric, avant-garde illustrations of Louis M. Glackens, the satirical cartoonist and longtime staff artist at Puck

Beyond Repair As secondhand-clothing sales boom, the fashion brand Toast is making old clothes better than new

Slow Burn A British fashion photographer is drawing the style set to Hotel Corazón, her laid-back getaway on a romantic Spanish island

On the heels of her new mother-daughter memoir, the journalist and podcaster shares her least favorite things

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