Paulina Prosnitz

3 weeks ago | airmail.news | Paulina Prosnitz

LOOK Insectopolis You may be under the impression that humans are the “main characters” of the earth and that insects are mere pests that we begrudgingly tolerate. But comic artist Peter Kuper’s captivating graphic history, Insectopolis, shows us that is far from the truth. In the book, a bug’s life is explained through immersive comic panels, quippy speech bubbles, and surprising statistics. (Eighty percent of all species on earth are insects!) Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist E. O.

3 weeks ago | airmail.news | Paulina Prosnitz

Benito Skinner never wanted to play football. “I hated everything about it,” says the 31-year-old comedian known as Benny Drama. He only signed up in the fourth grade after falling in love with his best friend, who played on the team at their Catholic elementary school in Boise, Idaho. The boy ended up moving away the following year—“I hope he’s well. I hope he’s gay!”—but Benito kept playing through high school, ultimately becoming the star wide receiver.

1 month 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.

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.

2 months 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.