Subscribe
Editors’ Picks:
Read the Latest Issue
Crime and Scandal
Modern Times
Cartoons
The Morning Meeting Podcast
March 14, 2026
The Best
of
The
News
from
Abroad
No. 348
Weekend
Edition
Saturdays

at 6:00 AM
In This Week’s Issue
HAMPTONS AGONISTES

An equestrienne heiress has plans to build a giant horse complex—manure pit included!—in tony Bridgehampton, and NIMBY locals are kicking up a stink, reports Ashley Baker …

BATTLE CRY

Chris Terrio, the Oscar-winning Argo screenwriter, warns that any lessons that could have been learned from past Middle East conflicts have been ignored in Trump’s rush to war …

DOWN WITH THE CROWN!

Jacob Furedi interviews the man responsible for the former Prince Andrew’s arrest—a fringe anti-royalist who has been trying to topple the British monarchy for decades …

TURNCOAT TIMMY

Timothée Chalamet may think that “no one cares about” ballet and opera, but, says Sarah Hoover, the little shrimp is attacking the very institutions that made his own career possible …

NO RESERVATIONS

David Beckham, Tina Fey, Paul McCartney, Nigella Lawson, and others dish on their culinary adventures in an exclusive excerpt from a new book by Ruthie Rogers, founder of London’s legendary River Cafe …

SINS OF THE FATHER

The award-winning magazine writer Tom Junod’s memoir about his larger-than-life father uncovers the complicated truth behind both the man and the American era that made him, writes Rich Cohen …

FOR HIS EYES ONLY

Michael Elias recalls the surreal experience of writing a screwball art-world movie with Sean Connery—and discovering that Agent 007 wasn’t quite as God-like off the screen as he was on it …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

San Francisco’s Huntington Hotel, a go-to for Capote, is back and better than ever … the Hollywood of Brazil is having a renaissance … rare Rothkos land in Florence … a new Ai Weiwei book spotlights his revolutionary work … and our shopping expert’s tips for how to escape the uniformity of the algorithms …

But First …
Issue No. 348

The View from Here The screenwriter of the Academy Award–winning film Argo, which dramatized the daring exfiltration of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran during the 1979–81 hostage crisis, on what’s at stake in Iran today

By Chris Terrio
Read On
Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
Not In My Back Paddock

A Horseback Battle in Bridgehampton Well-heeled Hamptonites are bridling at a proposed horse-riding complex—complete with a giant manure pit—amidst their multi-million-dollar estates. Will the neighs have it?

By Ashley Baker
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
Read On
Games

The Weekly Waffle

A positively addictive word game to go with your morning coffee
Small Talk
“This is a real game changer.”
“This is a real game changer.”
Off With His Head!

A Very English Revolutionary Meet the marginal but persistent anti-royal activist behind the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

By Jacob Furedi
Read On
Food for Thought

Dishing with Ruthie Rogers In an exclusive excerpt from the River Cafe impresario’s forthcoming book, Wes Anderson, Paul McCartney, Tina Fey, David Beckham, and others talk all things food, from microwave dinners to caviar

By Ruthie Rogers
Read On
Air Supply

For Your Consideration

AIR SUPPLY’s Oscars edit channels Old Hollywood glamour: swizzle sticks from historic nightspots, Brown Derby coasters, Chateau Marmont key chains, Taschen’s Life. Hollywood for the coffee table, and a Carolina Herrera sequined gown for when sitting on the couch requires ceremony
Shop
Photo: Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection/Getty Images (Novak)
Guest Edit

Patrick McGrath’s Favorite Things The designer spent years at Ralph Lauren and Giorgio Armani learning what restraint actually looks like—then built a practice around it. Here, his picks: nothing obvious, nothing without intention, and nothing that won’t still make sense in 20 years

Shop
Unforced Errors

Timothée Chalamet Is Missing the Pointe In an interview, the Oscar-nominated—and LaGuardia-educated!—actor dismissed ballet and opera as art forms “no one cares about.” How could he forget where he came from?

By Sarah Hoover
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
Read On
Best
wear Barbour x Paul Smith Asked to describe my perfect date, I concur with Miss Rhode Island’s inspired take in 2000’s… light Vacation Sometime while watching Wimbledon during last summer’s London heat wave, my wife and I found ourselves agreeing about what… listen Make-up Is a Lie After a six-year hiatus, Morrissey returns with his 14th solo studio album, Make-up Is a Lie. It arrives after several delayed… buy Flowerbx In London, the fashion set buys its flowers at Flowerbx—the delivery service and shop at the Chancery Rosewood hotel, … watch Summertime As stars descend on Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre this Sunday for the 98th Academy Awards, I can’t help but think of four-time winner… read The Best Dog in the World “The dog dies in this.” So begins The Best Dog in the World, an essay collection edited by Practical Magic… wear Barbour x Paul Smith Asked to describe my perfect date, I concur with Miss Rhode Island’s inspired take in 2000’s… light Vacation Sometime while watching Wimbledon during last summer’s London heat wave, my wife and I found ourselves agreeing about what… listen Make-up Is a Lie After a six-year hiatus, Morrissey returns with his 14th solo studio album, Make-up Is a Lie. It arrives after several delayed… buy Flowerbx In London, the fashion set buys its flowers at Flowerbx—the delivery service and shop at the Chancery Rosewood hotel, … watch Summertime As stars descend on Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre this Sunday for the 98th Academy Awards, I can’t help but think of four-time winner… read The Best Dog in the World “The dog dies in this.” So begins The Best Dog in the World, an essay collection edited by Practical Magic…
Notes on an Aesthetic

Escaping the Algorithmic Wardrobe A.I. shopping assistants can find you anything. What they can’t give you is taste

By Jennifer Noyes
Read On
Hollywood Babylon

Writing a Screenplay with 007 It’s 1977. You’re a Hollywood screenwriter working on a script with Sean Connery. Are you going to tell him his ideas are dumb?

By Michael Elias
Read On
Books
Rich Cohen On

In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man

by Tom Junod
Read On
Film

Cinema Paraíso With its glory days as Brazil’s Hollywood long behind it, the northern city of Recife is having a film renaissance, powering productions such as the Oscar–nominated The Secret Agent

By Elena Clavarino
Read On
Around the World in Culture
Cologne
Coming from Basel before moving to Amsterdam, a Yayoi Kusama retrospective features over 300 works by the Japanese artist… London
A Quiet Place’s Noah Jupe and Stranger Things’s Sadie Sink make their West End debuts in a new production of Romeo and Juliet… Netflix
Forget Succession—a new docuseries chronicles the crazier-than-fiction story of Rupert Murdoch’s dynastic dysfunction… Paris
An exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay explores the social side of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s work in all its sunlit charm… New York
In honor of Marilyn Monroe’s centenary, the Museum of Modern Art is screening 13 of her films—and one she inspired… On Masterpiece
Daisy Jones & the Six’s Sam Claflin stars alongside Jeremy Irons in a new TV adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo…
Highlight
No. 21, painted by Mark Rothko in 1947.

To Florence, with Love

Writing from the French Riviera in the spring of 1950, Mark Rothko confided to his friend the sculptor Richard Lippold, “I am still looking for the fabulous, which they say I will find in Italy.” Rothko was 46 and in the middle of a five-month European tour. Organized by his wife, Mell, the trip was meant to help him recover from a nervous breakdown brought on by his mother’s death, in 1948. His work, too, had recently—and momentously—changed. Rothko was now painting his breakthrough color-drenched abstractions. READ ON

Read On
Open Book

The Making of Ai Weiwei A new coffee-table book traces the artist’s humble beginnings in China, the exiles and travel bans he endured, and the radical works he created along the way

9
Ai Weiwei at his Hudson Street apartment and studio, in New York, 1983.
Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo, by Ai Weiwei, 1994.
Top, Tiananmen, 1995, from “Study of Perspective 1995–2011”; Weiwei at Tiananmen Square, 2000.
Surveillance Camera with Plinth, in marble, 2015.
Top, Wheatfield with Crows, in toy bricks, 2024; above, Fragments, made from dismantled Qing Dynasty furniture, 2005.
A detail of the self-portrait Brainless Figure in Cork, 2021.
Top, a bicycle outside Weiwei’s Beijing studio, in which the artist placed fresh flowers every day for a year and a half to protest the Chinese government’s confiscation of his passport until 2015; above, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995.
Pequi Tree, in cast iron, 2020.
Weiwei painting his Coca-Cola vase, 2024.
Read On
Small Talk
View With a Room

The Red Light on Nob Hill For decades, the Huntington Hotel was San Francisco’s hideout for everyone from Marlene Dietrich to Truman Capote. After a five-year blackout and a grand renovation, its neon crown has flickered back to life

By Ben Ryder Howe
Read On
Joe McKendry’s Sketchbook
3
Spring arriving?
Spring arriving …
Spring arriving!
Was Founded By

Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley

And Is Edited By

Julia Vitale

Chief Technology Officer

John Tornow

Senior Editors

Ash Carter Elena Clavarino George Pendle

Photo Director

Ann Schneider

Art Director

Paloma Huerre

Books Editor

Jim Kelly

Arts Intel Report Editor

Laura Jacobs

Copy Editor

Adam Nadler

Legal Editor

Matt Kapp

Production Editor

H. Scott Jolley

Associate Editors

Carolina de Armas Jeanne Malle Paulina Prosnitz

Senior Photo Editor

Emine Sevim

Designer

Zoé Gillette

Columnists

Dana Brown Cazzie David Lisa Henricksson
Walter Isaacson Pico Iyer Rachel Johnson
John Lahr Jonathan Margolis Linda Wells
James Wolcott

Writers at Large

Lili Anolik Johanna Berkman Joseph Bullmore Spike Carter Vassi Chamberlain William D. Cohan Rich Cohen Matthew Gurewitsch Victoria Herman Michael Hainey Stuart Heritage George Kalogerakis Sam Kashner James Kirchick Alexander Lobrano Alexandra Marshall Daphne Merkin Sam Wasson

Contributing Artists

Monica Ahanonu Barry Blitt André Carrilho Pip Carter Paul Davis David Downton Andrea Ferolla Josh Gosfield Cathy Graham Eric Hanson Angelica Hicks Hilary Knight Danielle Kosann Michael Lindsay-Hogg Ross MacDonald Joe McKendry James McMullan Donald Robertson Charles Dare Scheips Grant Shaffer Ed Sorel Ralph Steadman

Contributing Photographers

Jonathan Becker Justin Bishop Alex Board James Emmerman Marcos Fecchino Dafydd Jones Daniel Paik Art Streiber Sharon Suh Justin Weiner

Architectural Consultant

Basil Walter

Head of Audience Development

Rachel LeSage

Audience Growth Manager

Merritt Johnson

Cartoon Editor

Bob Mankoff

Music Supervisor

Randall Poster

Technology

Brooks Oakley Justin Rubaloff

General Manager, Commerce & Brand Partnerships

Anjali Lewis

Business Development Director

Catherine Scott

European Sales Director

Selim Mataraci

Chief Strategy Adviser

Adam Mendelsohn

Editor, Commerce, and Chief Merchandiser

Jennifer Noyes

E-Commerce Manager

Isaac Metlitsky

In Memoriam

Peter Bogdanovich Milton Esterow Duncan Hannah Jane Larkworthy Douglas McGrath Richard David Story André Leon Talley David Yaffe

Issue No. 348
March 14, 2026
Loading issue contents …
Issue No. 348
March 14, 2026
View the Archives
Every editorial product is independently selected. If you buy something through
our links, AIR MAIL may earn an affiliate commission.