Air Mail

“Area Loser Wants Job” The longest-serving editor of The Onion on how a group of “unemployable” twentysomethings created America’s foremost satirical publication

By Scott Dikkers

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Sex Scene

Pussy Riot The Kegel Throne is the latest device promising to strengthen and tighten the pelvic floor. One fearless queen takes a seat

By Jill Kargman

Books

Wham, Bam, Thank You Yam

By James Wolcott

Elements of Style

Better by Design Once a niche market for insiders, the collectible-design world now draws star-studded crowds. Is it eclipsing fashion as the ultimate marker of taste?

By Isiah Magsino

Phony Business J. D. Salinger refused to let his novels and stories be adapted for film and television. But that hasn’t stopped some directors

By Steve Garbarino

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Go East, Young Man The native New Yorker Jamie Bogyo is finding his theatrical niche in London’s classy West End

By Matthew Gurewitsch

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Sloane Crosley The writer on what she’s seeing, reading, watching, and listening to—plus, the gadget she relies on

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A Seat at Ruthie Rogers’s Table In an interview, the owner and chef behind London’s beloved River Cafe reveals everything, from her issue with truffle oil to her favorite city

By Rob Crossan

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Leave the Cannoli, Take the Oval Office From F.D.R. to J.F.K., Trump to Biden, a look behind the mythology of the Mob and the presidency

By Eric Dezenhall

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From the Metropol Hotel to Hollywood In an interview, Amor Towles discusses adapting A Gentleman in Moscow for the screen and the inspiration behind his newest book, Table for Two

By Jim Kelly

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Pleats, Please There’s a reason your algorithm is teeing up pictures of puckered arms and legs that are suddenly and miraculously smoothed. Can you believe them?

By Linda Wells

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In the Haute Seat

Bella Freud The British fashion designer answers 30 questions on fashion sense and other sensibilities, including her penchant for totes

City Guides

Nick Cave’s Guide to Chicago The American sculptor shares his go-to spots in the city he calls home

Television

Matthew Rhys Gets Personal The Welsh actor discusses meeting his wife, Keri Russell, on The Americans—and his role in the new Agatha Christie adaptation, Towards Zero

By Julia Llewellyn Smith

Biting the Brand That Feeds Situated in the company’s New York flagship, Le Café Louis Vuitton isn’t just a department-store refueling station—it’s a thing of beauty

By Ashley Baker

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Beauty Secrets of the Dead Everybody who’s anybody—including fictional characters such as Succession’s Logan Roy—stops in at Frank E. Campbell’s eventually

By Sam Kashner

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Bloat, Be Gone!

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Twin Peaks

By Cullen Murphy

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On the Air An exclusive excerpt from UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There revisits the American public’s close encounter … with Orson Welles

By Garrett Graff

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The Attention-Whore Index The Republicans spit out Kevin McCarthy, Gwyneth Paltrow chokes on her politics, and one of Britain’s richest men doesn’t recognize Jeffrey Epstein in the mirror. Please, pick your favorite loser already!

By George Kalogerakis

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Gaslit, Gatekept Girlbosses The biographer of cosmetics titan Mary Kay reveals how the other female inventors and entrepreneurs of her time were foiled and forgotten

By Mary Lisa Gavenas

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Listen

Inside AIR MAIL’s 2024 Over-Under List On this week’s podcast, Jeanne Malle tells us about the people and things that were over- (and under-) hyped this year

By Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey

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Sounds Fishy Skin’s latest savior? Salmon sperm. Hold your nose, we’re going fishing

By April Long

City Guides

Clare de Boer’s Guide to the Hudson Valley The chef behind King and Stissing House shares her go-to spots in upstate New York

Getting Into Bed with Tracy Anderson The founder of the fitness program for fanatics shares her highly detailed nighttime routine

By Jeanne Malle

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