October 22, 2022
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10 Downing and Out in London

From the U.K., Stuart Heritage considers the smoldering wreckage of a former prime minister (and possible kink freak?!) known as Liz Truss …

The Whole Earth Catalogue

On the 50th anniversary of its publication, Cullen Murphy revisits The Limits to Growth, the bracing environmental best-seller that changed the way we think about our planet …

Getting Crafty

From the fashion world, Harling Ross Anton reports on how the Etsy aesthetic of knitting and crocheting has become this fall’s big style trend …

Face-Forward

From Air Mail’s Health and Beauty Lab, Linda Wells tests a scary new procedure that promises younger-looking skin …

The Misfits

From New York, John Lahr shares a newly discovered letter by Arthur Miller that reveals his rookie mistake: he knew next to nothing about Marilyn Monroe when they married …

But, Wait, There’s More!

Secrets of the billion-dollar Goop cruise … inside the “accidental” deaths of Putin-crossing oligarchs … a warning from the author of Sapiens … the new Cormac McCarthy books … Stacy Schiff … Edward Hopper … Martin McDonagh …

But First …
Issue No. 171

The View from Here Liz Truss’s catastrophic 45 days as British prime minister have set the stage for a Tarantino-like face-off for her replacement. Brexit-stung Europeans look on in bemusement

By Stuart Heritage
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
The Planet

The Apocalypse in Charts Published 50 years ago, the Club of Rome’s bracing and best-selling environmental report, The Limits to Growth, changed the way we think—if not the way we live

By Cullen Murphy
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The Royal Soap Opera

Who Are You Calling a “Bimbo”? On the latest episode of Archetypes, Meghan Markle meets serious businesswoman Paris Hilton for a serious conversation about serious issues

By Hilary Rose
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Future Times

A Brief History of Yuval Noah Harari “We should never underestimate human stupidity,” warns the author of Sapiens, the runaway best-seller and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books

By Ben Spencer
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Style

Making Arrangements AIR MAIL and Métier team up on a collection of timeless travel companions

By Zoe Ruffner
Photographs by Marcos Fecchino
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Air Supply

Classic Acts

From tried-and-true sartorial treasures to heirloom-worthy interior accents, these enduring essentials are deserving of any shopping bag—because some things never get old
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Guest Edit

My Favorite Things Since launching her eponymous collection, in 2015, Sophie Buhai has become known for her timeless, resolutely refined gold-vermeil chains and beaded stone bracelets. In our latest Guest Edit, the Los Angeles–based designer shares the objects she can’t live without

By Sophie Buhai
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Gone Knitting

Welcome to Craft-Girl Autumn Knitting, embroidering, crocheting … this fall, Grandma’s favorite pastimes are a new generation’s go-to

By Harling Ross Anton
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Beauty and Wellness

Eye of the Beholder Spooky season ushers in a spate of hair-raising procedures and products that promise to treat some and trick the rest. Which will it be for our intrepid beauty columnist?

By Linda Wells
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Inside Story

Along Came Marilyn A newly discovered letter by Arthur Miller about his young bride, Marilyn Monroe, reveals the playwright’s rookie mistake: marrying a bombshell blonde he barely knew

By John Lahr
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Small Talk
Crime and Scandal

In Bed with the Oligarchs Why is a British businessman and member of the eminent Bonham-Carter clan in custody and facing extradition to the U.S.?

By Joseph Bullmore
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Film

Notes from New York’s Independent-Film Scene The director Michael Almereyda discusses working with Ethan Hawke, Sam Shepard, and David Lynch

By Nicolas Rapold
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Small Talk

The Woke Mob Because intersectional justice is a dish best served cold

By Teddy Wayne
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Modern Times

Healing on the High Seas Designed to support the “emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of today’s modern traveller,” Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop cruise cost around $1 billion to build, and it’s ready to set sail

By Charlie Gowans-Eglinton
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Air Mail Diary

Controversy over The Crown (the Show, Not Charles) And other strange news about these curious days …

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Best
Serve Ghia x Sophie Lou Jacobsen I’m a devoted fan of the non-alcoholic aperitif Ghia for several reasons. To start, it’s a delicious and… Shape Sania’s Brow Bar It’s a confusing time to style eyebrows. While some people have stayed devoted to the natural-brow trend, others have embraced the 90s’… Dry Autumn Sonata Perhaps the least desirable item to buy vintage: bath towels. Lilli Elias, an archivist based in Amsterdam, has sourced vintage patterns… Maggie Roche Listen Kin Ya See That Sun Terre Roche’s charming Kin Ya See That Sun project—a limited-edition book and CD of live recordings and outtakes—looks back on the… Read Guest Register In 1975, portrait photographer Penny Wolin moved from her hometown of Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Los Angeles, landing in… Sparkle Prada If Miuccia Prada is involved, it’s worth the wait. At long last, Prada has launched its first fine-jewelry collection: Eternal Gold… Serve Ghia x Sophie Lou Jacobsen I’m a devoted fan of the non-alcoholic aperitif Ghia for several reasons. To start, it’s a delicious and… Shape Sania’s Brow Bar It’s a confusing time to style eyebrows. While some people have stayed devoted to the natural-brow trend, others have embraced the 90s’… Dry Autumn Sonata Perhaps the least desirable item to buy vintage: bath towels. Lilli Elias, an archivist based in Amsterdam, has sourced vintage patterns… Maggie Roche Listen Kin Ya See That Sun Terre Roche’s charming Kin Ya See That Sun project—a limited-edition book and CD of live recordings and outtakes—looks back on the… Read Guest Register In 1975, portrait photographer Penny Wolin moved from her hometown of Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Los Angeles, landing in… Sparkle Prada If Miuccia Prada is involved, it’s worth the wait. At long last, Prada has launched its first fine-jewelry collection: Eternal Gold…
Food

Something’s Cooking Near Windsor Castle Woven, in the Coworth Park hotel, redefines how good a hotel restaurant can be

By Ashley Baker
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Listen

Hugh Bonneville Spills the Beans Who knew Paddington Bear had a substance-abuse problem?

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Art

The Art of the Everyday

Edward Hopper was born in 1882, but as a new documentary about the artist attests, his sensitive paintings of empty storefronts and dimly lit motels have lost none of their poignancy
By Laura Freeman
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Close-up

Kerry Condon After two decades focused on her craft, the actress has suddenly become the talk of Hollywood with her role in Martin McDonagh’s latest film

By Clara Molot
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Small Talk
“It’s just that I’m more of a ‘Fade, weep, disengage’ kind of person.”
“It’s just that I’m more of a ‘Fade, weep, disengage’ kind of person.”

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Munich

End notes: Lenbachhaus celebrates the life of the Lebanese-American poet and painter Etel Adnan …

Boston

To be Frank: the Museum of Fine Arts focuses on Frank Bowling’s New York paintings …

Paris

Princesses and prophets: the American director Lydia Steier makes her debut at the Paris Opera with Richard Strauss’s Salomé …

Houston

Guston’s return: controversial artist Philip Guston’s first retrospective in nearly 20 years travels to the Museum of Fine Arts …

Online

Creatures of habit: Alan Bennett’s comedy The Habit of Art, which unfolds in a rehearsal studio in the bowels of the National Theatre in London, is available for streaming …

Highlight
Hundreds of pieces are on view in “A Chair and You,” including, clockwise from top left, Stefan Wewerka’s Classroom Chair (1971), Boris Dennler’s Siège Radiateur (2012), Maarten Baas’s Dining Chair (2007), and Philipp Aduatz’s Melting Chair (2011).

Best Seats in the House

When Robert Wilson was a child in the 1950s, he visited his Uncle Sherrod’s white adobe house in New Mexico and was amazed by the elegance of a wooden chair positioned next to a floor mattress and ceramic pots. Later, one Christmas, his uncle gave him the tall, narrow chair. When Wilson was 17, he recalls, Sherrod’s son wrote him to say that “his father had given me a chair and it was his.” Wilson gave it back. READ ON

Hundreds of pieces are on view in “A Chair and You,” including, clockwise from top left, Stefan Wewerka’s Classroom Chair (1971), Boris Dennler’s Siège Radiateur (2012), Maarten Baas’s Dining Chair (2007), and Philipp Aduatz’s Melting Chair (2011). Read On
Eight Questions

This Sam Adams Is for You Eight questions with Stacy Schiff, biographer of everyone from Cleopatra to Nabokov’s wife, Véra, about her latest subject: Samuel Adams

By Jim Kelly
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Portfolio

Poster Boy The illustrator Paul Davis’s subtly Surrealist posters for theaters, movies, and museums get their own show in Italy

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A poster of Ingrid Bergman for the 2005 exhibition “Show People,” at the Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, in Siena.
An arts poster from 1981.
A poster of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, 2008.
A poster for The Water Engine at New York’s Plymouth Theatre, now the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 1978.
A poster for Mike Cuesta’s 1977 documentary on Leonard Crowdog, We Are Still Here.
A poster for the 1990 Festival Latino at New York’s Public Theater.
A poster for a Paul Davis exhibition at the Musei Civici Vicenza, 2006.
A poster for Piece of Cake, 1990.
A poster for the 2002–3 season at Los Angeles’s Geffen Playhouse.
A poster for Hamlet at the Public Theater, 1982.
A poster for the 2010 documentary Joe Papp in Five Acts.
A poster for Henry IV at the Public Theater, 1991.
A poster for Drinks Before Dinner at the Public Theater, 1978.
A poster for Merrydown, 2004.
A poster of Kevin Kline for Hamlet at the Public Theater, 1986.
A poster of Raul Julia for Macbeth at the Public Theater, 1989.
Paul Davis’s poster for his show on now at the Spazio Multimediale San Francesco, in Civitanova, Italy.
A subway poster for the School of Visual Arts’ 75th anniversary, this year.
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Highlight

Sleeping Beauty, Re-awakened The Vienna State Ballet’s new production of the fairy tale adds substance to the gossamer world

By Genevieve Curtis
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Small Talk
Books
Michael Knox Beran On

The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty

by Natalie Livingstone
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Nathan King On

The Passenger and Stella Maris

by Cormac McCarthy
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Great Lives

A Woman for All Seasons Angela Lansbury was a loyal friend, a generous castmate, and a surprisingly good baker

By Corby Kummer
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Small Talk
“See what happens when you leave party hats lying around the yard?”
“See what happens when you leave party hats lying around the yard?”
The Perfect Ending

Zoë de Givenchy

The collector behind online shop Z.d.G. answers 50 of life’s most pressing questions
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Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Sketchbook
“Mám strach. Přicházejí potíže.” (I worry. Trouble is coming.) In 1938, Hitler annexed the Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia—like Putin has done in Ukraine—and rolled into the rest of the country in 1939. So a middle-aged citizen in a nice big coat in the winter of 1938 could well imagine that trouble was on the way.
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