The Air Mail Archive: Every weekly issue

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

Renaissance Fare

Tom Kington calculates that Rome’s La Campana, the world’s oldest restaurant, is equal to 6.592 Keith Richardses!

Issue No. 11

September 28, 2019

Gordon Gekko for Millennial Brahs

William D. Cohan explains how the activist-hedge-fund manager Jesse Cohn has gotten his way with corporate boards who at first underestimate him

Mad About the Girl

Rufus Wainwright assembles a playlist that captures the magic of Judy Garland, including songs by Noël Coward, Jeff Buckley, and Garland herself

Take the Money

Reynold Levy, the former head of Lincoln Center, makes a case for why museums should keep the Sacklers’ blood money

Issue No. 10

September 21, 2019

The Godfather of Brexit

Ex-prime minister David Cameron sits down with Andrew Billen to talk about when Britain was great, the job he loved and lost, and how he got it all wrong

Mein Furor

Germany is up in arms about Scarlett Johannsson’s Hitler comedy. One German tells reporter Oliver Moody that it was “about as funny as Schindler’s List “

Good Night, Mr. Chips

George Pendle remembers an inspiring English teacher, and the gruesome gaslighting that ended with his murder

Issue No. 9

September 14, 2019

Duck for Cover

AIR MAIL co-editor Graydon Carter talks Trump and why he’d “rather see the Robertsons of Duck Dynasty in the White House”

My Tea with Jeffrey Epstein

Journalist Edward Jay Epstein recounts a tale of mysterious airline upgrades, bounced checks, and a fembot named Sophia

The Dogaressa’s Palace

Andrea Whittle reports on a new exhibit that showcases the work Peggy Guggenheim acquired from the late 1940s until her death, in 1979

Issue No. 8

September 7, 2019

The View from Here

Alessandra Stanley frees us of decision making, offering only the best: the show to watch, the podcast to listen to, and the gadget to buy

Heir Aberrant

The royal family trips over Prince Andrew’s Jeffery Epstein ties. Tony Allen-Mills and Roya Nikkhah report on the crisis mismanagement occurring across the pond

Hot Girl High School

Cazzie David breaks down the mystery of teenage confidence in the HBO hit Euphoria

Issue No. 7

August 31, 2019

The View from Here

Graydon Carter on the International Best-Dressed List and the woman who perhaps did more for the American clothing industry than any other single individual

If Greenland’s Not for Sale, How about Britain?

Andrew O’Hagan reports on why Boris Johnson has been dragging a dead cat around Europe, pretending it’s the tiger of a vital new economy

Seoul-Crushing

Amelia Lester looks into the highest level of Korean society and learns that the former star of K-pop’s biggest band is under investigation for running a prostitution ring

Issue No. 6

August 24, 2019

The View from Here

Alessandra Stanley speaks up for artistic freedom, and for the right not to go see Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York

Play With It Again, Sam

Alexandra Marshall, our reporter in Paris, has an exclusive look at the Woody Allen movie that Amazon dumped and no one wants Americans to see

Oculosis

Our gadget columnist, Emma Freud, learns that the problem with virtual reality doesn’t lie in the virtual world. It’s what happens when you come back

Issue No. 5

August 17, 2019

The Two Racketeers

AIR MAIL co-editor Graydon Carter gives his take on Trump and Epstein’s friendship, and Epstein’s apparent suicide at a high-security prison last week

Gentleman Trawler

Pierre Casiraghi talks to Joy Lo Dico about squiring teenage eco-warrior Greta Thunberg to New York on his zero-emissions boat

The PG-Spot

Cazzie David knows ethical porn when she sees it. It’s like shopping for organic eggs, or shade-grown coffee: it’s still porn, but “free-range”

Issue No. 4

August 10, 2019

Swamp Creature

Disgraced former E.P.A. chief Scott Pruitt is forgotten but not gone. In fact he’s still shilling for coal, explains Shawn McCreesh

Class Clown

Harry Mount examines Boris Johnson’s perplexing, and very un-English, lack of shame, and how he uses education and privilege to taunt the toffs and play to the yobs

Glock Party

Stuart Heritage reports on the long list of celebrities—including Hugh Grant, John Travolta, and Naomi Campbell—who flocked to fête the inventor of a killer handgun

Issue No. 3

August 3, 2019

Bucket List Be Damned!

AIR MAIL co-editor Graydon Carter wonders why the most powerful nations in the English-speaking world—America and Britain—are run by two bumbling fools

The Monster in Their Midst

Jean-Claude Romand, whose horrific murder spree shook France in 1993, has just left prison for a monastery, Peter Conradi learns

Boris-Ripper

Britain’s new prime minister wrote a comic novel with racy language and racial insights. Ben Macintyre finds out how Seventy-Two Virgins almost slipped into obscurity

Issue No. 2

July 27, 2019

The Perils of Self-Improvement

Gwyneth Paltrow’s latest project, Goop for Men, turns out to be just another way to make the male sex even more fragile, Alessandra Stanley writes

Shaggy Boris Story

Jeremy Vine tells the story of a prime minister without a portfolio, pen, or a prepared speech, raising the fundamental question: Is this guy for real?

The Accused

Sam Kashner and A.J. Poots explain how a sensational pedophile trial could have stunning repercussions throughout the British establishment

Issue No. 1

July 20, 2019

For Starters …

Welcome to the first edition of AIR MAIL. Our founder and co-editor, Graydon Carter, lays out a roadmap for the issues ahead

First Scam on the Moon

Emily Ludolph uncovers how Apollo 11 marked one small step for man, and one giant leap for some German philatelists

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