
Alessandra Stanley
Co-Founder and Editor at AIR MAIL
A critic and historian of Television. But not the band Television.
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1 week ago |
airmail.news | Alessandra Stanley
WATCH Families Like Ours Dystopia doesn’t always start with nuclear annihilation or a virus that turns people into zombies. In Families Like Ours, the slowly rising North Sea forces Denmark to follow Holland’s example and—in an orderly and civilized manner—evacuate the entire country. France will take some of the refugees; Germany and Poland, already overwhelmed, not so many. The least connected end up in Romania.
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2 weeks ago |
airmail.news | Alessandra Stanley
READ Silent Retreat A lot of people might be uncertain about what to pack for a week of spiritual reflection at a monastery, but the heroine of Sally Quinn’s new novel, Silent Retreat, doesn’t leave much to chance: she brings theology texts, lacy lingerie, hot curlers, and a vibrator. All of which come in handy when the sexy, motorcycle-driving Archbishop of Dublin shows up at the same retreat to examine his soul—and vow of celibacy.
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2 months ago |
airmail.news | Alessandra Stanley
WATCH Drop Dead City With time, the story of New York’s 1975 fiscal crisis has narrowed into a tale of the Three Wise Men: Felix Rohatyn, the banker; Richard Ravitch, the real-estate developer; and Governor Hugh Carey—all rich, powerful, and civic-minded figures who teamed up to rescue the profligate Gotham from bankruptcy. Certainly, those three did a lot.
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2 months ago |
airmail.news | Alessandra Stanley
WATCH The President’s Wife Pretty much every wife of a French president over the last 20 years deserves a saucy biopic: before Brigitte Macron, who met Emmanuel when he was her high-school student, there was Carla Bruni, the smoldering model turned chanteuse who married Nicolas Sarkozy.
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2 months ago |
airmail.news | Alessandra Stanley
READ A Hole in the Story It seems impossible—and also a little foolhardy—to write a novel set in the #MeToo movement as it reached its fulminating peak in 2017 with the toppling of Harvey Weinstein. There are so many trip wires blocking the way. Ken Kalfus has written a novel that proves it can be done: A Hole in the Story is nuanced, sure-footed, dryly funny, and unpredictable. If there were such a thing as a social-mores thriller, this would be it.
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