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Air Mail @airmail.news · 30/01/2026
“I have come around to suspecting that Kohberger was not the catalyst for all the horror—that it wasn’t his idea.”
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Did Bryan Kohberger Have an Accomplice?
The case of the Idaho student murders is officially closed. But after reviewing newly-released evidence, reporter Howard Blum believes the killer may not have acted alone.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 30/01/2026
“If Brooklyn continues to follow the Harry playbook like this, we can probably expect a tell-all documentary and book before long.”
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The Beckxit Bombshell, Unpacked
From his L.A. mansion, prodigal son Brooklyn Beckham has leveled a laundry list of accusations against his parents, Becks and Posh Spice. Is anyone else having déjà vu?
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 30/01/2026
“I sent my kids there because other parents sent their kids there. It sounds terrible, but it’s true.”
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A Crans-Montana Nightclub Fire Reckoning, as Owner is Freed from Custody
After a fire killed 40 people at the Swiss resort's Le Constellation, many Europeans are demanding answers.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 30/01/2026
Yerin Ha’s future has “happily ever after” written all over it.
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Yerin Ha is a Modern-Day Cinderella
The 28-year-old actress plays a Regency-era princess in the latest season of "Bridgerton"—a role not unlike the modern-day fairy tale she’s living herself.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 29/01/2026
Tyler James Williams’s least favorite present: “Someone else’s headshot.”
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Tyler James Williams's Least Favorite Things
The "Abbott Elementary" star dishes in our "Imperfect Ending" questionnaire.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 29/01/2026
"A jaunty, irreverent, and constantly surprising sermon on forgiveness."
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George Saunders Returns to the Bardo
In "Vigil," his sophomore novel, Saunders tells a Dickensian tale of an unrepentant industrialist on his deathbed.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 29/01/2026
“Val d’Anniviers is different.”
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Switzerland's Val D'Anniviers Offers an Old-School Antidote to Glitzy Gstaad
There are no heated gondolas or velvet ropes at this resprt—just snow and Alpine charm.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 29/01/2026
“He would regularly scream at his employees when they displeased him.”
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From Ravenous Piranhas to Bond Villains, the Dark Side of Mike Lynch's Autonomy
A new book lays bare the toxic culture that ran rampant at the late tech mogul's beleaguered software company.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 29/01/2026
Meet “Bridgerton’s” new leading lady.
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Yerin Ha is a Modern-Day Cinderella
The 28-year-old actress plays a Regency-era princess in the latest season of "Bridgerton"—a role not unlike the modern-day fairy tale she’s living herself.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 28/01/2026
An accordion that’s more than a joke! A digital writing pad by Montblanc! An app for all your recipes! And more.
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An Accordion That's More Than Just a Joke, According to Our Tech-and-Gadgets Columnist
The Korg Fisa Suprema is one of the most extraordinary musical instruments you've ever heard, says Jonathan Margolis.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 28/01/2026
“Was anybody else arrested?”
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Did Bryan Kohberger Have an Accomplice?
The case of the Idaho student murders is officially closed. But after reviewing newly-released evidence, reporter Howard Blum believes the killer may not have acted alone.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 28/01/2026
How inappropriately did Victoria dance, exactly? How does one dance “on” someone?
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The Beckxit Bombshell, Unpacked
From his L.A. mansion, prodigal son Brooklyn Beckham has leveled a laundry list of accusations against his parents, Becks and Posh Spice. Is anyone else having déjà vu?
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 28/01/2026
“I’m so angry that you left this world at 16, just because you wanted to celebrate New Year’s.”
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A Crans-Montana Nightclub Fire Reckoning, as Owner is Freed from Custody
After a fire killed 40 people at the Swiss resort's Le Constellation, many Europeans are demanding answers.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 28/01/2026
“There was a lot of responsibility on my shoulders. [But it] just made me want to prepare as much as I could to be able to give it my all."
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Yerin Ha is a Modern-Day Cinderella
The 28-year-old actress plays a Regency-era princess in the latest season of "Bridgerton"—a role not unlike the modern-day fairy tale she’s living herself.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 27/01/2026
Tyler James Williams’s preferred form of revenge: “The pettiest long game.”
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Tyler James Williams's Least Favorite Things
The "Abbott Elementary" star dishes in our "Imperfect Ending" questionnaire.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 27/01/2026
"As ever in Saunders, poignancy and farce are so wrapped up with one another that we don’t know whether to howl with laughter or with alarm."
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George Saunders Returns to the Bardo
In "Vigil," his sophomore novel, Saunders tells a Dickensian tale of an unrepentant industrialist on his deathbed.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 27/01/2026
“Here, unlike Gstaad or Zermatt, there is a tradition of minimizing the glitz.”
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Switzerland's Val D'Anniviers Offers an Old-School Antidote to Glitzy Gstaad
There are no heated gondolas or velvet ropes at this resprt—just snow and Alpine charm.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 27/01/2026
“Many of the former employees I was in touch with expressed fear of what speaking out would mean—even after Lynch was dead.”
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From Ravenous Piranhas to Bond Villains, the Dark Side of Mike Lynch's Autonomy
A new book lays bare the toxic culture that ran rampant at the late tech mogul's beleaguered software company.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 27/01/2026
This trio of celebrated Brooklyn writers continues to generate an endless supply of reality-TV-worthy melodrama.
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Keeping Up With the Gould-Gessens
This trio of celebrated Brooklyn writers continues to generate an endless supply of reality-TV-worthy melodrama.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 26/01/2026
From Barry Blitt’s sketchbook …
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Trump’s Tirade on Greenland ...
... from Barry Blitt's sketchbook.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 26/01/2026
“I have been silent for years.”
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The Beckxit Bombshell, Unpacked
From his L.A. mansion, prodigal son Brooklyn Beckham has leveled a laundry list of accusations against his parents, Becks and Posh Spice. Is anyone else having déjà vu?
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 26/01/2026
“If we said there was an accomplice, we’d look like fools for negotiating the plea bargain. The truth is ... there is a lot that we don’t know. Or that we will ever know.”
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Did Bryan Kohberger Have an Accomplice?
The case of the Idaho student murders is officially closed. But after reviewing newly-released evidence, reporter Howard Blum believes the killer may not have acted alone.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 26/01/2026
“They say that your life can change in a day, and mine did.”
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Yerin Ha is a Modern-Day Cinderella
The 28-year-old actress plays a Regency-era princess in the latest season of "Bridgerton"—a role not unlike the modern-day fairy tale she’s living herself.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 26/01/2026
“I went to Le Constellation with my friends. It’s where I had my first kiss.”
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A Crans-Montana Nightclub Fire Reckoning, as Owner is Freed from Custody
After a fire killed 40 people at the Swiss resort's Le Constellation, many Europeans are demanding answers.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 25/01/2026
“We lost the colonies because our King went insane. But now the shoe’s on the other bloody foot, isn’t it?”
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After 250 Years, Britain Is Revoking America's Independence
King Charles III is reasserting British rule over the colonies formerly known as the United States—as told to humorist Andy Borowitz.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 25/01/2026
“I went to St. Barth’s and got a bacterial infection.”
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Inside the Allegations of Skin Rashes and Chlamydia Outbreaks Rocking St. Barth’s
“Almost all of the billionaires have been infected with chlamydia": Linda Wells reports.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 25/01/2026
“If she had turned it down and said: ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today."
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Venezuela, Iran, and Two Nobel Peace Prize Winners Fighting to be Heard
Maria Corina Machado and Narges Mohammadi helped ignite the upheavals in their home countries—yet must now resort to extreme measures simply to have a voice.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 25/01/2026
“We’re taking over Nikki Beach.”
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Alleged Bribes, Tawdry Text Messages, and the Battle for Miami Beach
A contentious bidding process for a prime oceanfront location has pitted Nikki Beach’s owners against Carbone's Major Food Group. Eric Barton reports.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 24/01/2026
"Thank-you notes are not a generational relic.… They remain, very simply, the most civilized way to acknowledge effort."
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The Air Mail Guide to the Thank-You Note
In our latest "Notes on an Aesthetic" column, learn how to write the perfect gratitude missive (it's all in the pen and paper).
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 24/01/2026
“My ‘boyfriend’ is three decades older than me. My ‘boyfriend’ is older than my father. My ‘boyfriend’ is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.”
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths's Year of Magical Thinking
In the span of one year, the poet's husband, Salman Rushdie, was almost killed, and her best friend died suddenly. Her new memoir reckons with these dual traumas.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 24/01/2026
“Of course La Tourette is your favorite ‘Corb’ building.”
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Inside La Tourette, Le Corbusier's Enchanted French Monastery
Architect Vishaan Chakrabarti spends revelatory a night at the sparse monastery outside of Lyon.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 24/01/2026
“Of course La Tourette is your favorite ‘Corb’ building.”
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Inside La Tourette, Le Corbusier's Enchanted French Monastery
Architect Vishaan Chakrabarti spends revelatory a night at the sparse monastery outside of Lyon.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 24/01/2026
“He represents my best interests.”
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Incel Provocateur Nick Fuentes Hates Women. Why Does He Have so Many Female Fans?
Welcome to the world of the "groypette."
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 24/01/2026
“Do I have to resubmit my resignation every day in the face of new crises?”
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The Rise and Precipitous Fall of Laurence des Cars, the Louvre's First Female Director
She was Emmanuel Macron’s personal pick for the role. Now, following a string of disasters—including *that* jewel heist—the aristocratic curator says she is fighting for her career.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 23/01/2026
“I think he has valid critiques of neo-feminism.”
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Incel Provocateur Nick Fuentes Hates Women. Why Does He Have so Many Female Fans?
Welcome to the world of the "groypette."
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 23/01/2026
From Ruby Wright’s sketchbook …
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A Moment of Contemplation Outside Chatsworth House, Derbyshire ...
... from Ruby Wright's Sketchbook.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 23/01/2026
“This wouldn’t keep me from going to St. Barth’s.”
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Inside the Allegations of Skin Rashes and Chlamydia Outbreaks Rocking St. Barth’s
“Almost all of the billionaires have been infected with chlamydia": Linda Wells reports.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 23/01/2026
“Oh my God, these New Yorkers are trying to turn Miami into New York.’”
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Alleged Bribes, Tawdry Text Messages, and the Battle for Miami Beach
A contentious bidding process for a prime oceanfront location has pitted Nikki Beach’s owners against Carbone's Major Food Group. Eric Barton reports.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 23/01/2026
From Barry Blitt’s sketchbook …
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"Add Your Photo Here" ...
... from Barry Blitt's sketchbook.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 22/01/2026
“It is fascinating to contemplate time in relation to Rodney Smith’s work, as there is a sense of suspension in his images."
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Bending Time with Rodney Smith
Smith's photography, blending Wes Anderson's whimsy and Hitchcock's mystery, captures a timeless, surreal world with cinematic elegance in a new monograph.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 22/01/2026
The Air Mail guide to the thank-you note.
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The Air Mail Guide to the Thank-You Note
In our latest "Notes on an Aesthetic" column, learn how to write the perfect gratitude missive (it's all in the pen and paper).
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 22/01/2026
“Martha was getting to the essence of being human, of existing in a community of humans.”
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Martha Graham Turns 100
Amid its centennial tour, the dance company brings its legacy of resistance and protest to Chicago with a new work by the choreographer Hope Boykin.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 22/01/2026
“Of course La Tourette is your favorite ‘Corb’ building.”
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Inside La Tourette, Le Corbusier's Enchanted French Monastery
Architect Vishaan Chakrabarti spends revelatory a night at the sparse monastery outside of Lyon.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 22/01/2026
"I heard you mention that you’re a writer like my daughter. It’s good that you both do the same things. It’s good you have things in common."
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths's Year of Magical Thinking
In the span of one year, the poet's husband, Salman Rushdie, was almost killed, and her best friend died suddenly. Her new memoir reckons with these dual traumas.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 21/01/2026
“Why would I, a 20-year-old girl, want to watch a boring political stream every night?”
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Incel Provocateur Nick Fuentes Hates Women. Why Does He Have so Many Female Fans?
Welcome to the world of the "groypette."
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 21/01/2026
“It must be incredibly hurtful to a father who’s given him everything.”
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Blood Feud of the Beckhams
Legal notices! Blocked on Instagram! The family fight between Brooklyn Beckham and his parents has escalated dramatically.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 21/01/2026
“Almost all of the billionaires have been infected with chlamydia. Please do not hook up with these billionaires.”
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Inside the Allegations of Skin Rashes and Chlamydia Outbreaks Rocking St. Barth’s
“Almost all of the billionaires have been infected with chlamydia": Linda Wells reports.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 21/01/2026
“This is not what I hoped for with Miami Beach. The new world is different. It’s build, build, build. More and more and more expensive things.”
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Alleged Bribes, Tawdry Text Messages, and the Battle for Miami Beach
A contentious bidding process for a prime oceanfront location has pitted Nikki Beach’s owners against Carbone's Major Food Group. Eric Barton reports.
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 21/01/2026
From Barry Blitt’s sketchbook … airmail.news/sh/WRhgxX/bs
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Air Mail @airmail.news · 18/01/2026
George Clooney is at a loss for words, Brigitte Bardot causes mischief from the grave, and other strange stories in our new, globe-spanning column.
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George Clooney is at a Loss for Words...
... and other strange stories from around the world in our inaugural AIR MAIL Diary.
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