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Michael Hainey


Michael Hainey is a Writer at Large for AIR MAIL and co-hosts AIR MAIL’s weekly podcast, Morning Meeting, alongside Deputy Editor Ashley Baker. His first job was for Spy magazine, and most recently he was the Deputy Editor of GQ. Hainey, who lives in New York, is the author of After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Story.

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The Man Behind Bob Marley

A conversation about Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records

Gen Z’s Hot New Drug

This week on the podcast, a closer look at kratom. Plus, would you pay $700 to eat some ants?

Inside the Hit Comedy Hacks

A look at what awaits Jean Smart in Season Two

Barbarians Inside the Gates

What happens when the junior staff at Goldman Sachs doesn’t want to go back to the office?

The Little House That Rocked L.A.

In the 1960s, Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward’s place in the hills was the center of an arts explosion

The Inside Story on Anna Wintour

You bring the coffee; we’ll bring the buzz

What Is Princess Di’s Brother Talking About?

It’s the Bridgerton effect. Everyone wants to cash in on the U.K.’s great estates

Will Prince Andrew Tank the Firm?

He’s desperately clinging to Mummy in public, and that’s not good for Charles and William

Can Love Actually Explain Putin’s Behavior?

How a rom-com just might help us understand a very troubled man …

What Really Happened Inside Hollywood’s Hottest Party

Confessions of (and dirt-dishing from) a Vanity Fair dilettante

A “Band of Brothers” Re-unites for Ukraine

Behind the story of the photojournalism greats who came out of retirement to take on Putin

A New Russian Dissident Speaks Up

Why some Russians are choosing to stay and protest, rather than flee

One Journalist Who Actually Stood Up to Trump

The truth about what happened the night The Donald got turned away from a Vanity Fair party

David Lynch Comes to Greenwich, Connecticut

A very twisted sex scandal, the invasion of Ukraine, and more in this week’s podcast

Trump Write Pretty One Day

On this week’s episode, James Wolcott shares what he discovered reading the ex-president’s coffee-table book

It’s BoJo the Clown!

Can Boris Johnson survive Partygate? And speaking of scandal: Who is stealing L.A.’s French bulldogs?

When Netflix Funds a Grifter

Con woman Anna Sorokin’s most well-known victim gives her side of the story

Francis Ford Coppola’s Overlooked Masterpiece

A conversation about The Conversation—the movie that predicted our surveillance-saturated world

André Leon Talley, in His Own Words … and His Friends’

This week’s podcast looks at the legacy of a true original

How Genius Works

S’wonderful, s’marvelous … A revealing conversation with Sam Kashner about collaborating on Peter Bogdanovich’s final script

Did Elizabeth Holmes Get What She Deserved?

All the best listening for you in ‘22—great views, conversations, stories, and more

Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon

What Will Be the Big Stories of 2022?

Tune out the world and tune in to great conversation

A Wild Adventure Awaits in 2022

Give yourself the gift of good conversation, with Morning Meeting