The Air Mail Archive: Every weekly issue

Issue No. 38

April 4, 2020

Kvetcher in the Rye

Sam Wasson read Woody Allen’s memoir so you don’t have to

Dithering Heights

Trump and the six-week delay that has already cost the lives of thousands

Yeast Inflection

Why is everyone suddenly baking bread? Ashley Baker dusts off the flour

Issue No. 37

March 28, 2020

SWANKY PANKY

Stuart Heritage explains why Davos, Alpine clubhouse of the rich and powerful, is sexual-harassment central

NATURE CALLS

His new documentary is alarming, but David Attenborough still holds out some hope for planet Earth

BRIDESHEAD RESUMED

School (with a Predilection) for Scandal: Joseph Bullmore studies the trouble at Oxford these days

Issue No. 36

March 21, 2020

PANDEMICS

350 years before the coronavirus, take a Pepys at a real plague diary. Max Hastings did

SMALL CONSOLATIONS

Boris Johnson’s handling of the pandemic is only the second worst we’re seeing, notes Stuart Heritage. The first is closer to home

MÉNAGE À TROP

Try lockdown life with your recent ex! Alexandra Marshall reports from her living-room front line

Issue No. 35

March 14, 2020

MURDER MYSTERY, PART VI

Rich Cohen unravels the tragic Jennifer Dulos saga—and bumps into two #MeToo figures

PANDEMICS IN THE NEWS

It’s always been a germophobe’s world, Cazzie David points out, and now we’re all finally living in it

DYNASTIC DYSFUNCTION I

Separated at birth—and by lawyers: billionaire twins go to war, and Joseph Bullmore reports

Issue No. 34

March 7, 2020

MURDER MYSTERY, PART V

Rich Cohen reports on how prime suspect Fotis Dulos focused, unconvincingly, on an alibi

THE LONG GOOD-BYE

Yet more jockeying in the Megxit drama. Stuart Heritage rummages through the wreckage

ADD TO CART

Tatiana Schlossberg wonders how Jeff Bezos squares his $10 billion climate pledge with, well, Amazon

Issue No. 33

February 29, 2020

MURDER MYSTERY, PART IV

The day Jennifer Dulos disappeared, her husband got busy getting rid of the bloody evidence. Rich Cohen reports

DISNEY SUPERHERO

He’s responsible for Star Wars, Pixar, Marvel, and more. Peter Stevenson on the man behind the magic

DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND

Stuart Heritage explores the dark side of the television phenomenon Love Island

Issue No. 32

February 22, 2020

MURDER MYSTERY, PART III

It was the divorce from hell, writes Rich Cohen about the Dulos case. Then things went downhill fast

ON THE LAM

A young art dealer is missing, leaving behind a trail of angry collectors in London and New York. Joseph Bullmore investigates

ANOTHER ROYAL MESS, AND ANOTHER

More divorces. The Sussexes de-branded. Andrew, pedophile-phile. Stuart Heritage gathers the unappetizing threads

Issue No. 31

February 15, 2020

MURDER MYSTERY PART II

Rich Cohen reports on trouble in a WASP paradise: one Dulos starts an affair; the other fears for her life

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS

Roger Parloff on a threat to the First Amendment. A new ruling could send whistleblowers and reporters to jail

APPSTINENCE

Cazzie David abandons her smartphone. For a week. And lives to tell

Issue No. 30

February 8, 2020

Murder in Fairfield County

Eight months after Jennifer Farber disappeared, her husband, Fotis Dulos, was charged with the murder. Soon Dulos, too, was dead. Rich Cohen tells the harrowing tale

The Makings of a Royal Mess

Did Meghan start a palace rebellion? Or was Harry already plotting his escape? Vassi Chamberlain uncovers what lured Harry to Hollywood

Naked Ambition

Emily Ratajkowski calls herself a feminist. But Evgenia Peretz wonders, does parading around half (and sometimes fully) naked really help her agenda?

Issue No. 29

February 1, 2020

Is Paris Fuming? Oui!

Strikes are overtaking the City of Light. John Von Sothen, our expat in France, reports from streets filled with barricades and bicycles as the protests enter their third month

For-Profit Feminism

In the new women’s movement, workplace equality is a revenue stream. Amy Odell reports on the millennial enterprises with feminist agendas and deep pockets

Meghan’s New B.F.F.

Ashley Baker reports on Misha Nonoo, a socialite and fashion designer who counts herself among the former Duchess of Sussex’s closest friends

Issue No. 28

January 25, 2020

An Open Letter to Harry and Meghan

Dysfunction is practically a royal tradition, but there might be a remedy. Max Hastings offers the couple a bit of advice (even if he knows it will go unheeded)

On the Spectrum

Preet Bharara reviews Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump’s War on the World’s Most Powerful Office, by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes

Epstein’s Island of Horrors

Jacqui Goddard reports on Little St. James, Jeffrey Epstein’s shady hideaway in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Issue No. 27

January 18, 2020

The Trouble with Harry

Alexandra Shulman reports that Prince Harry’s restlessness is long-simmering, and even predates his Canadian escape with Meghan

Bad Romance

Paul Strathern, the author of a new book on the Borgias, separates fact from fiction when it comes to the notorious Italian family

Goopelgänger

If Goop is Oprah 2.0—a lifestyle media juggernaut spun off of an aspirational celebrity guru—then Elise Loehnen is the new Gayle King. Alexandra Marshall profiles Gwyneth’s right hand

Issue No. 26

January 11, 2020

Throne Out

Are Harry and Meghan going the way of the Windsors or the Kardashians? Marina Hyde talks all things Megxit—and tries to predict the couple’s next move

Why WeWork WeTanked

Matthew Zeitlin reports on how Adam Neumann’s cultish company lost its $20 billion valuation in a matter of weeks

The Jeffrey Epstein of Paris

Alexandra Marshall investigates why the Café de Flore set protected a pedophile who was abusing their children

Issue No. 25

January 4, 2020

Shades of Blue: Part II

Mark Bowden concludes the story of a Tennessee murder investigation that began when a P.I. got a call from a woman who saw him on TV. The job: finding her son’s killer

Lannister’s Greatest Battle Yet

Julia Llewellyn Smith reports on Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s transition from on-screen, Game of Thrones warrior to real-life climate warrior

Marie Kondo’s Bookshelf

What’s in Marie Kondo’s predictably selective library? The author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up reveals the books she thinks are worth keeping around

Issue No. 24

December 28, 2019

The Runaway Groom

Stuart Heritage tells how Britain’s most-wanted con man bewitched, bamboozled, and embezzled

Prince Among Men

Randee St. Nicholas, the photographer behind the largest-ever collection of images of the star, recalls the extraordinary experience of being in his orbit

Shades of Blue: Part I

Mark Bowden tells the story of how a brutally murdered off-duty cop’s grieving family took a cold case into their own hands

Issue No. 23

December 21, 2019

When fake news was fake

Stuart Heritage revisits the absurd, irresistible Hitler Diaries fiasco that nearly brought down three major news organizations

A Course in “Adulting”

Lucy Holden reports on the hottest Gen Z college trend: “Adulting” classes, where kids learn skills Mommy and Daddy forgot to teach them

Why Are We Still Loving Friends?

Polly Vernon explains the mind-boggling staying power and afterlife of the genre-defining sitcom, which is now the most streamed show on Netflix

Issue No. 22

December 14, 2019

Randy Andy: Next Chapters

In the wake of AIR MAIL’s explosive story last week on the Duke of York’s involvement in the Epstein affair, Vassi Chamberlain assesses the prince’s delicate predicament

The Man Who Played with Fire

Suzanna Andrews charts the rise and fall of David Boies, the masterful lawyer who went from fighting for gay marriage to defending Harvey Weinstein

Instagrinch

All Cazzie David wants for Christmas is for you to stop sharing. The AIR MAIL columnist explains why holidays bring about the worst Instagram posts ever

Issue No. 21

December 7, 2019

Naughty Nights with Randy Andy

In the lap of monarchy: Prince Andrew’s sweaty, eager, frisky past

In Cold Blue Blood

John Von Sothen reports on a mystery plaguing one of France’s oldest familles de noblesse: Why did a French aristocrat murder his wife, children, and dogs, and then vanish?

The Blinder Side

Danny Fortson interviews Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball and Liar’s Poker, who wants to take on climate change, but can’t find the right antihero to champion

Issue No. 20

November 30, 2019

How to Kill a Predator: Trump Edition

Backed by big-bucks conservatives, and with deep roots in D.C., the Pacific Legal Foundation is systematically destroying U.S. wildlife protections

Village Idiot

Stuart Heritage reports on the reviled dot-com entrepreneur trying to restore his ancestral village in Devon in the style of Silicon Valley

A Whale of a Show!

Jeffrey Gantz takes notes on the musical version of Melville’s Moby Dick , on at the American Repertory Theater, in Cambridge

Issue No. 19

November 23, 2019

And Jeffrey Epstein, Your Highness?

Emily Maitlis studies how an acclaimed BBC interviewer got Prince Andrew into the hot seat—and even further into hot water

Jackie’s Russian Collusion

Simon Sebag Montefiore unearths a letter from Jacqueline Kennedy to Nikita Khrushchev

Dream Come True

An excerpt from Richard Snow’s new book reveals how one man, fueled by milkshakes and Chesterfields, designed Disneyland in 40 hours

Issue No. 18

November 16, 2019

Sir Spankalot

A knighted British retail billionaire who partied with Beyoncé and Leonardo DiCaprio groped his way to the bottom. Now, he faces ruin and misdemeanor-assault charges, writes Stuart Heritage

The C.I.A.’s Tortured Logic

Scott Z. Burns shares his unredacted thoughts on why the agency gave two idiots $80 million in taxpayer money for illegal torture ideas

Last Call

In his new venture, Exit Here, Oliver Peyton brings his nightlife-impresario approach to the funeral business. Damian Whitworth reports on the push to make funerals fun

Issue No. 17

November 9, 2019

Unbuild the Wall

Henry Porter recalls the Soviet apparatchik who accidentally unified Berlin

Embarrassment of Riches

Rene Chun explains why, only a week after paying $8 million for an island in the Florida Keys, a man was busted for petty larceny at Kmart

Mike Nichols: Act Two

Ash Carter and Sam Kashner’s new oral history recounts the night Robert Redford begged Nichols to fire him from a Broadway hit

Issue No. 16

November 2, 2019

The Kid Never Left the Picture

Graydon Carter remembers Robert Evans, the former Paramount Pictures production chief responsible for The Godfather and Chinatown

Private Jets Feel the Greta Effect

Rupert Neate explains how, thanks to the climate activist teen’s influence, the Swedish airline travel market has decreased by 5 percent

Alive and Well and Living in New York

After a tragic loss, Charlotte Gainsbourg abandoned Paris. As she approaches 50, Serge and Jane’s daughter tells Arwa Mahdawi that she’s finally coming into her own

Issue No. 15

October 26, 2019

From Queen Mum to Prince Overshare

Helen Rumbelow reports on whether Harry and Meghan are really on the outs with Will and Kate

How to Write a Business Memoir

Bruce Feirstein reveals the seven easy steps to sharing your vital insights and uncanny corporate acumen in the form of a business memoir

Grifter of the Goop Set

Amelia Lester traces the lies of Belle Gibson, the Melbourne-based blogger who tried to dupe the wellness-worried into believing she cured cancer with vegetables

Issue No. 14

October 19, 2019

Hiding in Plain Sight

Lucinda Elliott reports on how the discovery of a trove of Hitler artifacts in Argentina shows just how many Nazis escaped justice after the war

French Nails at Dawn!

Stuart Heritage untangles the messy lives of the Wives and Girlfriends (or WAGs) of British footballers, relating how one WAG outed another

The Playing Fields of Money

Joseph Bullmore goes inside Institut auf dem Rosenberg, the Swiss school that charges nearly $130,000 a year to raise the future global elite without naming a single notable alumnus

Issue No. 13

October 12, 2019

Boris Johnson’s Ishtar

Emily Sheffield finds the British prime minister’s hitherto undiscovered—and very un-woke—movie treatment and explains why it won’t premiere anytime soon

Creeping to a Halt

Without the Instagram Following feature, Cazzie David is lost. She documents the painful process of letting go of a tab that gave her and many other users a healthy sense of shame

From Russia with Something Other than Love

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once his nation’s richest man, spent a decade in a Siberian prison. Kevin Maher learns he still has a great laugh, though—and it’s directed at Putin

Issue No. 12

October 5, 2019

They Shoot Horses

Leah McLaren discovers how the recent horse deaths at the Stronach family’s Santa Anita racetrack is part of a much larger family feud

Boris’s Poll Dancer

Stuart Heritage debates whether Boris Johnson’s relationship with a pole-dancing American model who appeared in Naughty @ 40 will lead him to prison

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