Senior Editor @AirMailWeekly / Books: "Strange Angel", "Death: A Life", “The Remarkable Millard Fillmore"/ Writes: @Esquire, @FT, @TheEconomist, etc.
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George Pendle retweeted
I remember the morning I commissioned Barbara Cartland to write a short story, in the days when the London Daily News ran a short story every week. Hers - which was to follow an unpublished story by Borges - was chauffeur-delivered on that same evening, wrapped in a pink ribbon.
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For better or for worse, this may be the Platonic ideal of an Air Mail article: an affair with Eve Babitz as recalled by one of the guys who wrote The Jerk airmail.news/issues/2026-9-5…
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🇩🇪This is the traditional attire of the Sorbs, a Slavic minority in eastern Germany. The iconic lace face veil is part of their ceremonial dress (Sorbische Tracht) used for solemn events and religious traditions in Lusatia.
Forget Aster and the Safdies. There is no more original filmmaker working in the US today than Jon Bois.
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@A24, @JOSH_BENNY, @jon_bois,
The great Michael Elias on writing with—and dating—the great Eve Babitz...
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George Pendle retweeted
Attempting to deduce subject of biography from this index. Faint hunch it isn't Philip Larkin.
What team should you support at the World Cup? A scientific review.
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The great Ashley Baker delves into a tragic expat tale….
Joshua Pack had money, status, four children, and a new life in one of London’s toniest enclaves. Then the private-equity star was found dead. airmail.news/sh/z5hjr3?utm_m…
Spring showers bring thoughts of violence.
"It is one of the last acceptable totems of manhood." Senior Editor @georgependle on James Smith & Sons, London's Victorian umbrella shop—and the case for carrying one. airmail.news/sh/oahgjO?utm_m…
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"It is one of the last acceptable totems of manhood." Senior Editor @georgependle on James Smith & Sons, London's Victorian umbrella shop—and the case for carrying one. airmail.news/sh/oahgjO?utm_m…
George Pendle retweeted
Without proper training, looking directly at this level of Tatler can cause permanent damage
In a fascinating piece of buried history, Elaine Sciolino shows how Israel once secretly plotted to arm Iran with nuclear-capable missiles—the very menace Israel and the U.S. now invoke in attacking Tehran’s missile and nuclear programs.
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A great story about screenwriting when your writing partner is James Bond….by the brilliantly funny @MElias52
It’s 1977. You’re a Hollywood screenwriter working on a script with Sean Connery. Are you going to tell him his ideas are bad? airmail.news/sh/XRh6mv?utm_m…
The Library of Congress is a hymn to American insanity.
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A trip into institutional insanity.
A whirlwind guide to Washington’s Library of Congress ft.trib.al/f0CEaMv
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My new favourite Winter Olympic sport: synchronized leaf blowers to dry the ice in the seconds between aerial ski jumps.
QAnon was right! @joliverconroy puts his finger on an inconvenient truth for both sides of the political spectrum: the Epstein files clearly show that there was a vast pedophile conspiracy involving the most powerful members of the business and political elite. Q should win a Pulitzer Prize for Conspiracy….
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