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“Why Can’t You Write Normal?” Kathy Acker’s journey from daughter of Sutton Place to genre- and gender-bending cult novelist

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Russia

Running Out the Clock In Russia, not much has changed since the invasion of Ukraine. But as the war drags on, there’s a sense of fiddling while the world burns

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The View from Here Is Trump crazy like a fox—or just plain crazy? The director of the documentary series Unprecedented thinks the latter


Food Fight

Leave the Gun, Take the Cocktail In an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, a maître d’hôtel for Brooklyn’s River Café recalls getting on the wrong side of a mobster from the Gotti crime family—and how he lived to tell the tale

Great Lives

Bob Mack Charming, brilliant, and contrarian in his tastes, the Spy reporter and editor of the Beastie Boys’ magazine, Grand Royal, was as lovable as he was unreliable

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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


Russki Business

A Master of the Dark Arts With ties to both Vladimir Putin and Jeffrey Epstein, the Kremlin propagandist turned Silicon Valley girlboss Masha Bucher is a conspiracist’s fantasy

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

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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

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Coupling

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

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From Tahiti, with Love


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

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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