Sour Grapes over George Clooney
His bid to own a vineyard in Provence is headed to court
Are You Cheugy or Non-Cheugy?
What started with mocking millennials’ skinny jeans and side parts now has a name
Generation Burnout
One 24-year-old success story has a warning for her fellow over-achievers
Blue-Hair Specials
The safest places to enjoy indoor dining in New York? Follow AIR MAIL’s “Three out of six” rule. And take your Tums
The Dirty Dozen
How the hubris of Europe’s biggest soccer clubs sparked riots and compelled Prince William to tweet
No Rest for the Famous
Nine things celebrities could sell us without killing the planet
Old Money vs. Machine
A pair of Transformers figures provokes an epic battle in staid Georgetown
BetterNot
How we in lockdown view the Fresh Prince of Montecito, and other follies
Parlez-Vous Parler?
The love story behind the app that threatened the Capitol
The TikTok Star Who Hates TikTok
Sixteen-year-old Sissy Sheridan has 5.3 million TikTok followers and can’t imagine her life without the app. That doesn’t mean she likes it
#MeToo Comes for Philip Roth, In Death
Women argue that the acclaimed novelist of sex and depravity deserves a “re-contextualizing”
Maskless and Topless in Lamu
The coronavirus-free Kenyan island attracting socialites, Marina Abramović, and Dominic West (post–Lily James hoo-ha)
Out of the Shadows
The 22-year-old woman who used Instagram to open the U.K.’s eyes to teen-on-teen sexual abuse
This Is Bullshot!
Does everyone have the vaccine but me?
Zoom-Smart
Online students have become masters of trickery, cheating, and fun at their teachers’ expense—all while adhering to the unspoken rules of high school
Princess Academy
How a Welsh school dubbed “Hippie Hogwarts” became the popular choice for European royalty and Russian oligarchs
The Spice Girls of Niger
Meet the woman-led band rocking West Africa and beyond
Living with Steve Jobs’s Biographer
Walter Isaacson has written about da Vinci and Einstein. His wife writes about his creative process. Salad, anyone?
Class War
At Dalton, one of New York’s toniest private schools, a bruising battle rages between the woke and the trads
Sweet Oblivion
The hottest social network in Silicon Valley is anti-viral by design
Pet Peeves
From Shepherd’s Bush to Barking Park, pandemic dogs are clogging the curbs
Go West, Young Homme
For generations, western Long Island has been home to servicers of the more easterly Hamptons elite. Will an influx of rich Europeans change that?
Dangerous Liaisons
The coronavirus is catching up with its runaways, dealing revenge in the form of arrests, forced quarantines, and decrepit jails
Faking It
Notes on TikTok’s misplaced morals and unattainable beauty standards