1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (197+ words) Air Mail Halfway through Kurt Andersen’s sprightly new novel, The Breakup, Natalie and Asher, an estranged couple, are about to drop their daughter, Logan, off at an airport in Tennessee. Just before pulling up at the departures curb, Natalie, who…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (143+ words) The New 2026 Cadillac Celestiq: Car Review Air Mail Despite a “strategic pullback” from electric, America’s original luxury brand is quietly riding a second wave of battery-powered innovation with a $375,000 sedan and a vision beyond Trump’s war on E.V.’s…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (144+ words) Charles Ray's Controversial Sculptures Land in Germany Air Mail “It’s not just about seeing,” says Moritz Wesseler, the director of the Fridericianum, in Kassel, Germany. “It’s also something about feeling.” Wesseler, who organized the museum’s exhibition “Charles Ray,” opening next…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (111+ words) Air Mail Gruyaert plunged into the grimy, frenetic yet vibrant city, endlessly entranced not just by its flash but by the mundane presence of people: kids splashing around open fire hydrants; commuters crossing Madison Avenue; old women scowling on the…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (774+ words) Air Mail El Encanto de Los Mirlos One of Peru’s most prolific bands, Los Mirlos celebrate every facet of their identity and sound on 1986’s El Encanto de Los Mirlos. Emerging from the Peruvian Amazon in the early 70s, the group…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (775+ words) Air Mail It took 200 years for a little-known Delft painter named Johannes Vermeer to be discovered, and only because an art critic wrote a three-part article in 1866 praising View of Delft, painted around 1660. In Vermeer’s Afterlives, Yale professor Ruth Bernard…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (232+ words) airmail.news Ferragosto on August 15 is when all Italians down tools, shut up shop, and head for the coast. It is when the beach club—as a summer ritual and institution—comes into its own. As a holiday, Ferragosto’s roots…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (779+ words) "I Who Have Never Known Men" 1995 Novel by Jacqueline Harpman: Recommended airmail.news I Who Have Never Known Men In a bookstore last weekend, I was approached not once but twice by shopgoers urging me to purchase the slim novel…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (202+ words) “”My favorite red lipstick. It lasts the whole day and I buy them in series of ten! Unbeatable” - M.A. “I still love to keep a paper diary. It is always a red Moleskine. I have them since many many…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (90+ words) Air Mail Private clubs are turning to Contra for beautiful, influential partygoers on demand. So much for exclusivity On a recent Sunday night in Montauk, a party was raging at Mary Lou’s, a lounge and private members’ club that originated…...