Skip to Content
The Best
of
The
News
from
Abroad
Weekend
Edition
Saturdays

at 6:00 AM
In This Week’s Issue


Issue No. 120

The View from Here So you want to become a Republican? First, a questionnaire …

Read On

Fraudenfreude While the businessman–social animal David Tang gave the impression of living the high life, in fact he was plundering his companies and gambling away his fortune

Read On


They’re Thingin’ Our Thong! The true story of Chippendales, the legendary strip club for women, will make your eyes, um, bulge

Read On

Manifest Destiny? No Thank You Leave it to the C.I.A. to affirm our power to manifest the future—and ruin the game for ill-wishers everywhere

Read On
Best
Listen Blue Banisters It’s hard to believe that the Lana Del Rey of Blue Banisters, the album she released last weekend, is the same Lana Del Rey who became… Sip Allpress Espresso The coffee pod has long been looked down on by serious espresso drinkers. But that’s changing. Allpress Espresso—a New Zealandbased coffee… Visit New Beverly Cinema On Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, across the street from the Mexican restaurant where Sharon Tate ate her last meal, is Quentin Tarantino’s Wear Lingua Franca If you know us at all, you know that we don’t even consider buying new pajamas unless they are piped in contrasting colors… Set Summerill & Bishop x Claridge’s While visiting the Summerill & Bishop boutique in Notting Hill last week, we were a bit perplexed to see… Clear Mighty Patch When it comes to matters of complexion, we’re all sensitive. Our egos can be as delicate as the skin to which we carefully tend… Listen Blue Banisters It’s hard to believe that the Lana Del Rey of Blue Banisters, the album she released last weekend, is the same Lana Del Rey who became… Sip Allpress Espresso The coffee pod has long been looked down on by serious espresso drinkers. But that’s changing. Allpress Espresso—a New Zealandbased coffee… Visit New Beverly Cinema On Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, across the street from the Mexican restaurant where Sharon Tate ate her last meal, is Quentin Tarantino’s Wear Lingua Franca If you know us at all, you know that we don’t even consider buying new pajamas unless they are piped in contrasting colors… Set Summerill & Bishop x Claridge’s While visiting the Summerill & Bishop boutique in Notting Hill last week, we were a bit perplexed to see… Clear Mighty Patch When it comes to matters of complexion, we’re all sensitive. Our egos can be as delicate as the skin to which we carefully tend…

Flipping the Godfather Script Mario Puzo was an avid gambler, novelist, and pizza eater. But there was one department where he could use some help: screenwriting

Read On

Basil Fawlty Meets His Match Once enjoyed by Winston Churchill, and admired by Hitler, the Grand Hotel may be Britain’s worst lodging

Read On

We Tried On a Kylie Jenner Swimsuit so You Wouldn’t Have To Buckle up …

Read On
Small Talk
“He’s been to the city exactly once.”
Air Supply

Shop
Guest Edit

My Favorite Things Rosa Park—co-founder and editor of Cereal magazine and director of Francis, a gallery in Bath, England—has been shopping with “well-being and comfort at the forefront of my mind”

Shop

China Cracks Down on Homework And other strange news about these curious days …

Read On

A Podcast Full of Treats (and a Few Tricks) From Kylie Jenner’s “swimsuits” to a zombie hotel, we’ve got it all this week

Read On

Exposing Her Weiner Huma Abedin claims she had never heard of sex addiction until her husband’s sexting scandal broke

Read On

Bob Dylan Is Back (Again)

Bob Dylan, born the same year as Bernie Sanders, still walks the earth. The Bob Dylan Show proliferates, maybe because he doesn’t want to spend nights alone with his Nobel Prize. The so-called Never Ending Tour began in 1988 and keeps on never ending, though at times Dylan has referred to it as “The Money Never Runs Out Tour,” “The Why Do You Look at Me So Strangely Tour,” and “The One Sad Cry of Pity Tour,” among others. READ ON

At 80, Bob Dylan will pick up touring where he left off pre-pandemic.

Read On
Discover
Small Talk
“Then she made me dance and posted it on TikTok.”

Click here to visit

Don’t Miss

Honor Swinton Byrne The actress reveals what it’s like to act alongside her mother

Read On

Fit for a King At his new Versailles restaurant, Alain Ducasse continues his reign over French cuisine

Read On

The Lap of Luxury A new memoir reveals the late Karl Lagerfeld in all of his complexity

Read On
Air Mail Jr.
Open Book

Taxi Driving An illustrated history of the New York taxicab recalls the glory days of early motorized cars and spacious Checkers

Books

Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child

by Harvey Kubernik and Kenneth Kubernik
Read On

The Shattering: America in the 1960s

by Kevin Boyle
Read On

Murder, They Wrote

Read On
Small Talk

Jerusalem Syndrome The Christian obsession with the holy city has played a key role in creating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—and remains a stumbling block to its resolution

Read On

Read On
Small Talk
” … and then Iceberg goes, ‘You know, a lot of people really like just a lettuce-and-tomato sandwich!’ I literally spit out my drink!”
Air Play

Striking a Chord

Songs that register with us all, from LCD Soundsystem, Grace Jones, Elton John, and more

Read On
Risko’s Sketchbook
Is Edited By

Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley

Deputy Editors

Chris Garrett Michael Hainey Nathan King

Design Director

Angela Panichi

Chief Technology Officer

John Tornow

Books Editor

Jim Kelly

Arts Intel Report Editor

Laura Jacobs

Style Editor

Ashley Baker

Features Editor

Ash Carter

Senior Editor

Julia Vitale

Executive Editor

David Foxley

Photo Director

Ann Schneider

Associate Editors

Elena Clavarino Jensen Davis Coco Paul-Henriot Jacob Robbins Elinor Schneider Roxy Solis

Art Director

Paloma Huerre

Columnists

Cazzie David Emma Freud Lisa Henricksson
Walter Isaacson Pico Iyer Rachel Johnson
John Lahr Jonathan Margolis Douglas McGrath
James Wolcott

Writers at Large

Lili Anolik Joseph Bullmore William D. Cohan Rich Cohen Stuart Heritage George Kalogerakis Sam Kashner Alexandra Marshall

Contributing Artists

Monica Ahanonu Barry Blitt André Carrilho Paul Davis David Downton Andrea Ferolla Josh Gosfield Cathy Graham Duncan Hannah Eric Hanson Angelica Hicks Pip Johnson Hilary Knight Jenny Kroik Michael Lindsay-Hogg Ross MacDonald Joe McKendry James McMullan Donald Robertson Charles Dare Scheips Grant Shaffer Ed Sorel Ralph Steadman

International Editor

Isabelle Harvie-Watt

London Editor

Bridget Arsenault

Communications Director

Monika Camara Batista

Cartoon Editor

Bob Mankoff

Music Supervisor

Randall Poster

Copy Editor

Adam Nadler

Photo Editor

Emine Gozde Sevim

Production Editor

H. Scott Jolley

Technology

Brooks Oakley Justin Rubaloff Sade Singleton

Intern

Gasper Tringale-White

Chief Operating Officer

Bill Keenan

Chief Marketing Officer

Emily Davis

Brand Partnerships

Anjali Lewis

Sales Director

Michael Pescuma

Financial & Business Operations

Marc Leyer

Chief Strategy Adviser

Adam Mendelsohn

In Memoriam

Richard David Story (1952–2021)

Issue No. 120
October 30, 2021
Loading issue contents …
Issue No. 120
October 30, 2021

Every editorial product is independently selected. If you buy something through
our links,
AIR MAIL may earn an affiliate commission.