The British Are Coming!
Sunday roasts, sticky toffee pudding, and porn-star martinis hinted at Anglomania’s return to New York nightlife. Now the pubs are arriving in force
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Prediction markets are courting controversy—and allegations of insider trading—by taking bets on the Iran war. Gambling on human life may be venal, but it isn’t new
Bye-Bye, Billionaires’ Row
#floorplanporn hashtags are flooding social media and Rosario Candela books are stacking up on coffee tables as Manhattan buyers turn from super-sleek new builds to historic co-ops. Is the age of condos coming to an end?
The Real Housewives of Rikers Island
On the heels of Taylor Frankie Paul’s Bachelorette blowup and Summer House’s own Scandoval, one writer goes inside the reality-TV franchise that puts them all to shame
The Man with the Golden Con
Eric Freymond stole millions from the original Bond girl and bilked an heir to the Hermès fortune out of billions. Was the Swiss wealth manager the greatest fraudster who ever lived?
Down and Dirty on Nantucket
The alleged vandalizing of geotubes installed to prevent beach erosion is exposing fault lines between the island’s affluent summer residents and year-round locals
The Gentlemen’s Hour
Trendy new members’ clubs are taking over Manhattan, but some young men are opting for the city’s Gilded Age mainstays instead—trading flashy perks for old-school allure
Moscow Goes (Digitally) Dark
Russia has suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and lost much of its influence in the region. This month, the capital went weeks without Internet
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A fable for our times (with apologies to Shel Silverstein)
“I’m Cancelable. But I’m Not a Cat Killer”
Horses was the hottest restaurant in L.A., until co-owner Liz Johnson accused her husband and partner, Will Aghajanian, of murdering their pets. Three years later, he breaks his silence
Meghan in Oz!
The Duchess of Sussex once wanted to be the Gwyneth Paltrow of jam. Now she’s sixth on the bill at an Australian women’s retreat
The AIR MAIL Diary
Buddhist monks are fighting, hibernating bears are biting, and other strange stories from around the globe …
The Bonvoy Problem
Points programs are destroying the luxury-hotel experience. Can anything stop the freeloaders?
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It’s tempting to think that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was fated to disgrace the royal family. But what if there were a what-if?
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?
A Very English Revolutionary
Meet the marginal but persistent anti-royal activist behind the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
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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
The Princess Diaries
Following their father’s arrest, their mother’s Middle Eastern exile, and their own appearance in the Epstein files, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie have been banned from Royal Ascot. Prince Harry to the rescue!
The Fall of the House of Barclay
How did the former owners of the Ritz and The Telegraph go from billionaires to bankrupts?
Invasion of the Sororities!
The Greek-life craze that has dominated campuses in the South is creeping northward, with the Ivies and small liberal-arts colleges buying in—and specialized “consultants” cashing in
The AIR MAIL Diary
The Sistine Chapel is caked in sweat, thousands of Japanese men are clad in loincloths, and other strange stories from around the globe …
The View from Here
In 1982, the first American journalist admitted to Iran after the hostage crisis interviewed a prickly Ali Khamenei—before he became an ayatollah. His death in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike brought the encounter rushing back
The Duchess of Excess
Once described as “the greatest single threat to the monarchy,” Sarah Ferguson—ex-wife of disgraced royal Andrew—has lived a life defined by scandal, debt, and sexual high jinks
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The slippery slope from nuclear warfare to eating kittens
