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Introducing AIR MAIL, a weekly digital newsletter that brings you the essence of the best weekend editions from your favorite newspapers. Led by Graydon Carter, the former editor of Vanity Fair, and Alessandra Stanley, who has served as a foreign correspondent and critic for The New York Times, AIR MAIL is packed with engaging and stylish writing from some of the most respected journalists globally. The newsletter takes an international perspective, focusing on topics beyond the U.S., including politics, business, the environment, arts, literature, film and television, food, design, travel, architecture, society, fashion, and crime. It tackles these subjects with sophistication, authority, and a touch of humor. We aim for AIR MAIL to become a cherished addition to the reading list of the modern world traveler—someone like you. Think of it as a digital version of the classic weekend edition of the International Herald Tribune.

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James Bond Creator Ian Fleming's Collected Writings, "Talk of the Devil," Reviewed

1 week ago | airmail.news | Tobias Grey

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.
"Families Like Ours" Dives Deep into Climate Change and Exile

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.
What TikTok Is Doing to the Cotswolds

1 week ago | airmail.news | Will Humphries

When you live in “the prettiest village in England” you expect to share it with tourists clogging the streets. What you do not expect is one of their drones to film you taking a bath. The residents of Castle Combe, in the Cotswolds, have had to place “no drone zone” signs in their windows, the local church and public car park after being repeatedly buzzed by camera-wielding aircraft flying over their gardens, streets and in one instance by their bathroom window.
Rimowa and Vitra’s Aluminum Creations Are More Than Meets the Eye

1 week ago | airmail.news | Ashley Baker

Carry Vitra x Rimowa It’s a seat! It’s a storage container! It’s a toolbox! The German luggage heavyweight, Rimowa, has teamed up with Vitra, the Swiss furnishings manufacturer, on a collaboration that design aficionados will struggle to resist. The Aluminum Stool is a mobile cube on wheels with an upholstered seat and interior that’s full of compartments to store your matchbook collection, Augustinus Bader serums, or secret alcohol stash.
Jared Kushner's Five-Star Hustle: The "Morning Meeting" Podcast

1 week ago | airmail.news | Ashley Baker |Michael Hainey

On this week’s podcast, a look at the latest hustle from Trump’s son-in-law: a luxury resort with poisonous snakes This week, Mitchell Prothero joins us with his report on why Jared Kushner is pursuing a multi-million-dollar development deal on an uninhabitable former Cold War air base in Albania.Then, many of you are no doubt watching Outrageous, the new series on BritBox that charts the dazzling and controversial lives of the Mitford sisters.
Jeremy King's New Restaurant, The Park, Draws American Expats in London

1 week ago | airmail.news | Ashley Baker

Mind the gap and exit the District line at the Bayswater stop. Jaywalk across the Queensway and glide through the leaded glass doors of the Park restaurant. Michelle Chillingworth, the deputy of restaurateur Jeremy King, knows her regulars by face and name. She squirrels away the umbrellas and leads the way down the curvaceous timber staircase. Slip into the Manhattan Room, the restaurant’s private dining room, and there they are. The New Yorkers. London is lousy with American expats.
The Panic Shack Dance That Went Viral on TikTok

1 week ago | airmail.news | Judith Newman

They circle to a hypnotic beat. They are both conventionally pretty, and not; young, and not; thin, and not at all. There are bad haircuts and dye jobs and muffin tops and, often, a hot-mess sex appeal. Sometimes they are suburban moms, and sometimes they are festive lesbians. (One group calls itself “SubaruShack.”) Occasionally, they’re men. Or Legos. Or ducks. The common denominator? They don’t care what you think and are having a great time. Almost invariably, we wish we could join them.
A Bar Crawl of D.C. MAGA Watering Holes ...

1 week ago | airmail.news | Katy Balls

It’s 5.30pm at the Waldorf Astoria Washington DC and a Texan couple have just come over to our table. “You’ve done a fantastic job,” they tell my guest. “Keep giving them hell.” Mike, Kim and their son Cash are in DC for a few days on a trip and have just spotted one of their idols: the podcast host Natalie Winters. Kim comes up to compliment her on her denim hotpants.
AIR MAIL Editor's Picks: "Destroyer of Worlds" by Frank Close & More

1 week ago | airmail.news | Jim Kelly

This week, don’t miss a transfixing chronicle of the nuclear age, a look back at Cambridge’s queer history, and a portrait of everyday life in war-torn Ukraine Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age by Frank Close The dawn of the nuclear age is not exactly an under-covered subject, even before Oppenheimer, the movie.
"The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1984-1994," by Thomas Mallon: Book Review

2 weeks ago | airmail.news | Thomas Beller

The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983–1994 by Thomas Mallon I read the whole thing, all 567 pages of Thomas Mallon’s The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983–1994, which surprised me, because once I got past the parts that I was in some way witness to, as a student of Mallon’s at Vassar College in the 1980s, I had expected to skim. I tried to skim. But the skimming never lasted long.