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The View from Here Announcing the return of AIR MAIL’s Tom Wolfe Prizes for Fiction & Reportage!!!!!!!

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Invasion of the Bodyworkers The planned 236-acre Six Senses luxury wellness retreat in the Hudson Valley has many locals feeling very un-Zen

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Games

Small Talk
“The divorce lawyers are already circling.”

With Lifestyle Porn, Meghan The Duchess of Sussex’s latest Instagram foray hints at many things: her picture-perfect marriage, her glamorous Montecito life, and—what else?—a brewing next act

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A Sonic Switcheroo at Mar-a-Lago Trump spent decades trying to stop planes from flying over his club. Now his tony Palm Beach neighbors say he has finally succeeded—and made their palatial homes unlivable

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Air Supply

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Roger Bennett’s Favorite Things The Men in Blazers founder shares the essentials of a life lived with deep conviction, good shoes, and an Italian truffle hound named Martin Scorsese

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Faux Fighters As the U.F.C. lands at the White House this weekend, young men are flocking to Thailand in search of authentic violence. What they’re getting is something oddly Trumpian: part spectacle, part grift, part fraud …

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The AIR MAIL Diary Bears are attacking the Japanese! Snakes are attacking the Chinese! And other strange stories from around the globe …

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Best
read The God Test If you see the abbreviation A.I. and immediately, without the aid of Gemini, change it to OY!, then you’ll find comfort in Robert Wright’s watch Summer with Monika Summer with Monika (1953) captures the all-consuming and fervid emotions of young love with director Ingmar Bergman decorate Thuma x Buchanan Studio Color is back. Not in the cautious “accent pillow” sense, but in the full-fledged, English-decorator… dine L’Escale Most of the real-life restaurants that appear in films and television series about Paris are so resolutely mediocre. This artful ignorance… sleep Schostal Knicks tickets or luxury two-ply cotton pajamas? I went with the latter for an early Father’s Day gift this year, which, depending on your priorities… look Plumb Line Loie Hollowell’s work exists somewhere between Georgia O’Keeffe and Hilma af Klint, with perhaps a Robert Irwin–esque read The God Test If you see the abbreviation A.I. and immediately, without the aid of Gemini, change it to OY!, then you’ll find comfort in Robert Wright’s watch Summer with Monika Summer with Monika (1953) captures the all-consuming and fervid emotions of young love with director Ingmar Bergman decorate Thuma x Buchanan Studio Color is back. Not in the cautious “accent pillow” sense, but in the full-fledged, English-decorator… dine L’Escale Most of the real-life restaurants that appear in films and television series about Paris are so resolutely mediocre. This artful ignorance… sleep Schostal Knicks tickets or luxury two-ply cotton pajamas? I went with the latter for an early Father’s Day gift this year, which, depending on your priorities… look Plumb Line Loie Hollowell’s work exists somewhere between Georgia O’Keeffe and Hilma af Klint, with perhaps a Robert Irwin–esque

All You Need Is George Martin The genteel record producer did not look the part of a revolutionary. But as a commemorative new book makes clear, his wildly innovative work with the Beatles changed pop music forever

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After Hours

A Night Celebrating DRESS CODE Wes Gordon, Chloe Malle, Eva Chen, and others joined Julia Vitale and Rickie De Sole at New York’s Temple Bar to celebrate the launch of AIR MAIL’s sparkly new style vertical


Rebecca Ressler The owner of Hollywood Books has turned her small, finely curated bookstore into a Los Angeles literary hot spot, drawing guests such as Kaia Gerber and Petra Collins

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Books

Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe’s First Family

by Veronica Buckley
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There’s Something About Malta The island’s Mediterranean, North African, and British influences converge at Casa Bonavita, a restored 18th-century home turned boutique hotel in the quiet town of Attard

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Around the World in Culture

Sculpture with Colour (Eos), by Barbara Hepworth, 1946.

Barbara Hepworth’s True Colors

We tend to picture her sculptures unadorned. Monumental limestone couples. The mother and child in sensuous alabaster. Burled-wood torsos, all impressive in their purity and scale. Barbara Hepworth (1903–75) exploited her material with rigor, incorporating open space into closed rectangles, spheres, cones, and cylinders. Yet her modernism radiated a belief in the harmony between humans and nature. READ ON


What’s on Trump’s Birthday Playlist? Trump’s favorite songs offer an unsettling glimpse into his mind: Broadway schmaltz, masculine bombast, and an eerie indifference to the world going up in flames

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Small Talk
“My goal is to figure out every way to climb on this thing not intended by the manufacturer.”

Discovering the stories of treatment before modern health care in London’s Herb Garret, part of the Old Operating Theatre Museum.
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Issue No. 361
June 13, 2026
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Issue No. 361
June 13, 2026

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