11.18.2023

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Graydon Carter here ...

"Barbie" meets "Napoleon"; the "I Am Pilgrim" sequel; Kim Kardashian's new nipples; and more.
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From New York

Impersonating a Mexican billionaire was just the tip of the iceberg for Alberto Fis, a young art-and-sushi aficionado whose Manhattan omakase spot disguised a vast web of Inigo Philbrick–style fraud

From Santa Barbra

Presenting AIR MAIL's exclusive, unauthorized index to the 992-page Barbra Streisand memoir, compiled by some of the same Spy experts who, 34 years ago, tackled Andy Warhol's diaries

From Narragansett Bay

Ahead of the 60th anniversary of J.F.K.'s assassination, Richard M. Cohen revisits the issues that preoccupied the president in the weeks before his death—bombings, death threats, and growing rumors of his anarchic private life

From France

Ridley Scott's Napoleon is long on slo-mo cavalry charges and short on the rest of the emperor's achievements—not least of which was Napoleon's support for a Jewish state in Palestine

From the Lingerie Aisle

For years, women tried to hide them. Now you can't look up without seeing a pair. From Shalom Harlow to Kate Moss to Kim Kardashian, Flora Gill traces the triumphant return of the nipple

From Dallas

A new book on Lee Harvey Oswald questions what could cause a man to kill a president and lands on the elusive affections of his violent, narcissistic mother

From the Writers' Room

In an interview with Sam Kashner, Lee Eisenberg discusses working his way up from office temp to writer for The Office, and adapting the hit novel Lessons in Chemistry for television

From Hollywood

With Ridley Scott's biopic of the French emperor hitting the screen, Sam Wasson looks back at the failed attempt of another master director—Stanley Kubrick—to make a film about Napoleon

From Slovenia

Just two hours from the clogged streets of Venice, this little-visited country offers history, farm-to-table food, the dramatic landscapes of the Julian Alps … and no crowds!

From Our AIR SUPPLY Shop

Prepare yourself for the holiday-party onslaught with our essential collection of choice gifts for welcoming hosts

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