The Air Mail Archive: Every weekly issue

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

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