Tobias Grey

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Talk of the Devil: The Collected Writings of Ian Fleming―Wartime Experiences, Espionage Reflections, and Travel Narratives from the Creator of James Bond by Ian Fleming We tend to forget that Ian Fleming was a moonlight author, whose first novel, Casino Royale (1953), was published at the relatively advanced age of 44. As foreign-news manager at The Sunday Times, in London, from 1945 to 1962, Fleming had a busy day job.

2 months ago | airmail.news | Tobias Grey

We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris Jeju is an island paradise with a dark secret. Every year, millions of holidaymakers touch down on this lush oval-shaped volcanic island about 80 kilometers from the southern tip of the Korean peninsula. But how many of them are aware that between 1949 and 1950 around 700 people were executed at the present site of Jeju International Airport and that many of these bodies remain buried beneath the main runway?

Mar 21, 2025 | airmail.news | Tobias Grey

In 1968, in the months after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) decided to honor the man with an exhibition. Works by artists such as Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, and Alexander Calder would be shown and then sold to benefit King’s organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Everything was going as planned for the October opening, until somebody noticed that the organizers had failed to include art by people of color.

Nov 29, 2024 | airmail.news | Tobias Grey

The Indian director Payal Kapadia employed guerrilla-style filmmaking tactics to capture the swarming streets of Mumbai in her prize-winning debut feature, All We Imagine as Light. She switched back and forth between her main camera, used for the places where she had permission to shoot, and the smaller Canon EOS 5D, which could be concealed, for those locations where she was not able to obtain permits.

Nov 8, 2024 | airmail.news | Tobias Grey

Naples 1343: The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia by Amedeo Feniello, translated by Antony Shugaar “What is the source of all this savagery?” wondered Amedeo Feniello on the night three young men were murdered by the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia, in front of the school where he worked as a teacher. A few months later, Feniello quit his teaching job and began another career, as a medieval historian.