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2 weeks ago | 
airmail.news | Paulina Prosnitz
If she had gotten better grades in school, Mimi Keene says, she’d now be a vet instead of an actress. The 26-year-old shares her home in Hertfordshire, England—just down the road from where she and her brother grew up—with three dachshunds, a Chihuahua, and a blue-point Siamese cat named Darling, who purrs loudly on Keene’s lap for the entirety of our conversation.
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1 month ago | 
airmail.news | Paulina Prosnitz
COOK In the Kusina For chef Woldy Reyes, who grew up in a Filipino household in the United States, food was a flashpoint of his different worlds. At school, while his American classmates ate peanut-butter sandwiches and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, Reyes had lunches of steamed rice and fragrant adobo his mother had packed him.
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1 month ago | 
airmail.news | Paulina Prosnitz
Filming a scene with Channing Tatum and Naomi Ackie for Zoë Kravitz’s Blink Twice, Liz Caribel Sierra improvised the following line: “I’m from Dyckman, and I lead with so much love, but I’m quick to fuck a motherfucker up.” Off-screen, 27-year-old Caribel Sierra calls Manhattan’s Inwood neighborhood of Dyckman—known as “Little Dominican Republic”—home. It’s where her parents, who emigrated from the Dominican Republic just before she was born, raised her.
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2 months ago | 
airmail.news | Paulina Prosnitz
READ Early Thirties Victor and Zoey have been best friends since they met in college. But a decade later, as both work in New York—Victor at a respected magazine, Zoey at a fashion start-up—their relationship is tested by the cold realities of adulthood. Intertwined with Victor and Zoey’s stories are those of fellow players on the city’s media scene, including a publicist for a vapid pop star, a nepo-baby podcaster, and a downtown influencer-novelist.
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2 months ago | 
airmail.news | Paulina Prosnitz
Delaney Buffett found the inspiration for her Tribeca Film Festival–featured Adult Best Friends in an unlikely place: midway through her toast at the wedding of her childhood best friend, Katie Corwin. Buffett began to joke about being “replaced” by Corwin’s now husband, before having the split-second realization that it wasn’t a joke at all.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
airmail.news | Paulina Prosnitz
READ Rabbi Burns When Aben Kandel, a Romanian-American novelist and prolific screenwriter of low-budget horror films, published the novel Rabbi Burns, in 1931, critics denounced its “needless pornography … smoking car language, and desecration of a rabbi”—relegating it to obscurity shortly after its release. A provocative satire about “Hollywood Jews,” the novel’s titular character, Rabbi Marvin Burns, is a caricature of the real-life rabbi-to-the-stars Edgar Magnin.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
archive.ph | Paulina Prosnitz |Gracie Wiener |Marcia DeSanctis |Matthew Campbell
Last November, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres declined to renew the contract of U.N. Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Alice Wairimu Nderitu, who did not label Israel’s war against Hamas a genocide, even while other U.N. officials have either done so or released reports which make this claim.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
airmail.news | Paulina Prosnitz
Quintessa Swindell grew up in a Virginia Beach car dealership. While their father worked long hours out front, Swindell, who identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, watched movies starring Paul Giamatti and Philip Seymour Hoffman on a portable television in the back office. Their mother passed away when they were young. “My childhood wasn’t the best,” they tell me. “It wasn’t really a typical situation.” Swindell, 27, remembers one bright moment, though.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
airmail.news | Paulina Prosnitz
drizzle Heraclea Named after the ancient city at the foot of Mount Latmos in Turkey, Heraclea specializes in extra-virgin olive oil crafted from the region’s Memecik olives and cultivated without synthetic fertilizer or pesticides. To sample all of Heraclea’s dynamic flavor infusions—chili, garlic, lemon, and rosemary—we recommend the Aegean Flavors gift box. The set of tins, illustrated with colorful olive groves, also comes with a helpful recipe booklet with suggested pairings.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
airmail.news | Paulina Prosnitz
BAKE Bake Club Chef Christina Tosi—the founder of Milk Bar and a two-time James Beard Award winner—has the magic touch when it comes to sweet treats. (The crowd favorite Milk Bar Compost Cookies, Cereal Milk, and Crack Pie are all her creations.) In her new cookbook, Bake Club, she shares more than 100 “unfussy” recipes for charmingly nostalgic bites, from an apple-cider-donut Bundt cake to a glazed pumpkin-pie bar.
