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The Beautiful Game

In the Pink After securing an all-new team for just $25 million in the city of his choice, David Beckham brought Lionel Messi, the world’s most popular player, to Miami and may well have changed the sport in the U.S. forever

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Great Lives

Duncan Hannah The acclaimed artist, writer, and AIR MAIL contributor is remembered by two of his friends

The Look From Here

The Secret Lives of Tanorexics One drop of rain and they’re off to the sun. What drives these bronze obsessives? And why won’t they ever learn?


On Thin Ice

When the Penguins Went Red Thirty years ago, the owners of the Pittsburgh Penguins decided to bet big on Moscow’s legendary Red Army hockey team. What came next was both a miracle and a nightmare

No Safety Nyet

#MeToo, Russian-Style Meet the Russian women’s-rights activist exposing predatory oligarchs—all while staying loyal to Vladimir Putin and the late Jeffrey Epstein

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Film and Television

Remembering Twin Peaks The cast of David Lynch’s rich and strange television masterpiece recall the late director’s sheer unusualness

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Corridors of Power

The $158 Million Question Why is Leon Black, billionaire financier, blue-chip art collector—and close friend of Jeffrey Epstein’s—suddenly facing a new rape accusation and questions from the Senate Finance Committee? An extensive AIR MAIL investigation provides a road map

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Arts and Letters

The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part II Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller’s Marilyn: A Biography sold more copies than anything Mailer ever wrote. He also believed it cost him a Nobel Prize

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Man Trouble

Tight Ends The B.B.L.’s popularity grows by the minute—especially now that so many men are getting in on the action

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Toronto Dispatch

There’s No Place Like Ontario Place Once home to a public park and architectural marvels, an island off the shore of the idyllic Lake Ontario is being turned into a big-budget spa, to the ire of some locals

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Weighty Issues

Gwyneth’s Body-Double Trouble Paltrow’s stand-in for Shallow Hal, Ivy Snitzer, reveals what happened—22 years after the film’s release

Book Reviews

Traces of Empire


Travel

Malta’s Day in the Sun With Italy and Greece overrun by tourists, the English-speaking Mediterranean island that Queen Elizabeth once called home is a suitably low-key—and culture-packed—alternative

Coupling

Unbreak My Heart Can the Internet’s favorite love doctor cure my romantic woes?

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The Year of Magical Eating In an interview, Stanley Tucci lays bare his relationship with grief, his battle with oral cancer, and his new memoir chronicling a year of meals

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Film

Love and War Advise & Consent is rightly remembered as a classic Washington movie. It was also an important—if complicated—moment in gay history

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Elements of Style

Bring In the Suits Dunhill’s new creative director is bringing Britain’s men’s-wear traditions to the next generation

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Style

The Spy Who Dressed Me During World War II, one of London’s most prominent fashion designers led a secret life as head of an espionage unit operating behind German lines

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War and Remembrance

A Great Escape It was difficult enough to smuggle girls who had been abandoned by the U.S. out of Afghanistan. Harder still to do it twice

Giving Up the Ghost

The Root of All Evil Did a bizarre experiment using modern medical technology to reveal the secrets of demonic possession unleash a deadly curse on its participants?


Fact Is Fiction In an interview, Colson Whitehead discusses his new novel, Crook Manifesto, cancel culture, and why he avoids reading contemporary fiction

Landing Gear

Shake, Rattle, and Roll The finest point-and-shoot Leica available gets an upgrade! A Bang & Olufsen speaker that will move you to your core! See through the earbud marketing gimmicks—grab yourself a transparent pair! And more …

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