Archive

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

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

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”

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

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

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

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

Fawlty Towers

John von Sothen goes inside Château Diter, the sprawling château that’s becoming the scourge of Provence with each illegal addition