Judge and Jury

Alessandra Stanley looks at Justice Breyer’s refusal to retire and sees a reflection of our own self-centered, shortsighted behavior …

One Shot, No Chaser

Stuart Heritage explains how in hell a white British socialite who killed a Black police officer in Belize is now waging war against her partner …

Broad Strokes, Dumb Folks

Joseph Bullmore reveals how the millennial in-law of one of Europe’s wealthiest art-collecting dynasties pulled off an epic grift …

Here We Are Now, Entertain Us

Thirty years ago, Nirvana released Nevermind and music was never the same …

Men Hunting Birds

As shooting season opens in the U.K., Tom Chamberlin reminds us that a friskier kind of game is bagged and tagged indoors, at night …

Off the Appian Way

Ashley Baker beats a path to the perfect way to find peace of mind and a great meal—high-end trekking through the hills of Italy …

Issue No. 109

Black Robe, White Knuckles Justice Breyer’s refusal to retire is not just annoying—it’s a harsh reminder that we always put our own interests above society’s

By Alessandra Stanley

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He Said, She Said The socialite who shot a police officer in Belize is out of jail and under siege

By Stuart Heritage

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The Lady Vanishes Charged with a fraudulent $1.3 million art deal, a millennial, private-jet-hopping grifter is now heading to prison

By Joseph Bullmore

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Fool’s Paradigm Gloomy Gus, Shrinking Violet, and friends mourn the death of Good-Time Charlie

By John Ficarra

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Memo from Montauk

While Labor Day may be approaching, the water’s still warm and the afternoons are still long on the easternmost tip of Long Island. This week, AIR MAIL invites you to savor the last moments of August with the casual cool of Montauk

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Photo: Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection/Getty Images (Cavett and Tiegs)

Locks, Sex, and Two Smoking Barrels During shooting season in the U.K., the most coveted “birds” are bagged at night

By Tom Chamberlin

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Fussy Eaters Are Bad in Bed And other curious news about these strange days …

By George Kalogerakis

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Life on the Orient Express

The first photographic exhibition by the Orient Express Endowment Fund distinguishes fact from fiction as it examines the evidence of this near-mythical service, which in the 19th century opened up routes between Europe and the Middle East and in the 20th became the setting for Agatha Christie’s mystery novel and, later, Sidney Lumet’s film adaptation. READ ON

Traveling in style.

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Beyond the Infinite—and Back How 2001: A Space Odyssey’s long-lost lunar lander found its way to L.A.’s new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

By Adam Elder

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“If we just hold our nerve, poorly lit homes filled with clutter will become ‘a thing.’”

A Busy Week of Bad Behavior From Andrew Cuomo to British grifters to sexcapades at country estates, we cover it all in this week’s podcast

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Eat, Pray, Eat British food writer Sophie Grigson relocates to Puglia, to delicious effect

By Michael Odell

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Ons Jabeur The young Tunisian tennis pro is gunning for a Grand Slam and paving the way for more of Africa’s rising stars

By Adrian Brune

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Watch The Chair The Netflix series starring Sandra Oh isn’t about a death-row execution but something almost as bad: becoming the chairman…

Shop Cart-House Based in Bristol, U.K., husband-and-wife team Ben and Cathryn Bailey sell simple, well-designed furniture, the type they’d like…

Melanie Griffith in a scene from the film ‘The Bonfire of the Vanities’, 1990.

Listen The Plot Thickens After her multi-week break from shooting The Bonfire of the Vanities, Melanie Griffith arrived back on set with brand-new…

Wear Kassl Editions There’s a lot to be said for doing one thing exceptionally well. Enter Kassl, a brand founded in 2018 by a coterie of Europeans who were…

Restore 111 Skin Face masks and self-care products did a booming trade over the last year and a half, in particular disposable South Korean–style…

Lounge Anna Quan You probably know by now that we love a ribbed knit, but surely you can’t hold that against us. Australian designer Anna Quan…

Watch The Chair The Netflix series starring Sandra Oh isn’t about a death-row execution but something almost as bad: becoming the chairman…

Shop Cart-House Based in Bristol, U.K., husband-and-wife team Ben and Cathryn Bailey sell simple, well-designed furniture, the type they’d like…

Listen The Plot Thickens After her multi-week break from shooting The Bonfire of the Vanities, Melanie Griffith arrived back on set with brand-new…

Wear Kassl Editions There’s a lot to be said for doing one thing exceptionally well. Enter Kassl, a brand founded in 2018 by a coterie of Europeans who were…

Restore 111 Skin Face masks and self-care products did a booming trade over the last year and a half, in particular disposable South Korean–style…

Lounge Anna Quan You probably know by now that we love a ribbed knit, but surely you can’t hold that against us. Australian designer Anna Quan…

Gen X Marks the Spot Thirty years ago next month, Nirvana released Nevermind. Music was never the same

By Will Hodgkinson

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Animal Attraction Joachim Schmeisser’s African-wildlife photographs pay homage to the magical creatures of Kenya’s Amboseli National Park

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A rare black rhino, one of roughly 5,000 left in the world.

The cheetah is the fastest known animal on land and also Africa’s most endangered hunter.

A giraffe couple. The word “giraffe” is derived from the Arabic language and means “the lovely one.”

Today, African elephants live only south of the Sahara, most of them in southern Africa, especially in Botswana.

Only two populations of mountain gorillas, including this reflective silverback, still live in Africa, one around the Virunga volcanoes, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and the other in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.

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Afterparties

by Anthony Veasna So

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Asher Fogle Paul On

Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George

by James Lapine

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“I forget who, but he’s somebody’s kid.”

The King of Comedy Eight questions with David Steinberg, director of Seinfeld, Friends, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, whose new book looks back at the last five decades of comedy

By Jim Kelly

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All Paths Lead to Rome What better way to see the Italian countryside than a walking safari that includes great food and quaint inns

By Ashley Baker

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“It’s like I’ve been cyberbullying for so long that I forget how to do it in person.”

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I had an aquarium when I was a child, but I felt sad for the fish being so constrained. In a “Cubist” fish tank, my creatures have total freedom.

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In Memoriam

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Black Robe, White Knuckles Justice Breyer’s refusal to retire is not just annoying—it’s a harsh reminder that we always put our own interests above society’s

He Said, She Said The socialite who shot a police officer in Belize is out of jail and under siege

The Lady Vanishes Charged with a fraudulent $1.3 million art deal, a millennial, private-jet-hopping grifter is now heading to prison

Fool’s Paradigm Gloomy Gus, Shrinking Violet, and friends mourn the death of Good-Time Charlie

While Labor Day may be approaching, the water’s still warm and the afternoons are still long on the easternmost tip of Long Island. This week, AIR MAIL invites you to savor the last moments of August with the casual cool of Montauk

Locks, Sex, and Two Smoking Barrels During shooting season in the U.K., the most coveted “birds” are bagged at night

Fussy Eaters Are Bad in Bed And other curious news about these strange days …

Beyond the Infinite—and Back How 2001: A Space Odyssey’s long-lost lunar lander found its way to L.A.’s new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

A Busy Week of Bad Behavior From Andrew Cuomo to British grifters to sexcapades at country estates, we cover it all in this week’s podcast

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Eat, Pray, Eat British food writer Sophie Grigson relocates to Puglia, to delicious effect

Ons Jabeur The young Tunisian tennis pro is gunning for a Grand Slam and paving the way for more of Africa’s rising stars

Gen X Marks the Spot Thirty years ago next month, Nirvana released Nevermind. Music was never the same

Animal Attraction Joachim Schmeisser’s African-wildlife photographs pay homage to the magical creatures of Kenya’s Amboseli National Park

The King of Comedy Eight questions with David Steinberg, director of Seinfeld, Friends, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, whose new book looks back at the last five decades of comedy

All Paths Lead to Rome What better way to see the Italian countryside than a walking safari that includes great food and quaint inns

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