Airmail
airmail.news · Group blog · on HN since 2019
Air Mail is a weekly email publication of long-form journalism and culture writing, launched in 2019 by Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley.
What HN saysHN links it for individual long features, such as the piece on a court reporter's adulterer and one on Stephen Glass's wife.
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Most-shared posts
- 1The Adulterer in the Room3 people · 7 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Katherina Lynn Faked Her Way into Yale. Then She Got Expelled2 people · 5 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 3Biology is the New Tech: Letter from a conference on CRISPR1 people · 171 points · first shared 2019 · 316 comments on HN
- 4A new book on cannibalism in the 1921 Russian famine1 people · 76 points · first shared 2019 · 78 comments on HN
- 5How Disneyland Came to Be1 people · 70 points · first shared 2019 · 43 comments on HN
- 6They Published the Perished: NYRB Classics puts masterpieces back in print1 people · 44 points · first shared 2019 · 10 comments on HN
- 7Restoring the Salvator Mundi1 people · 31 points · first shared 2019 · 7 comments on HN
- 8Fakes, Nazis, and Fake Nazis1 people · 27 points · first shared 2025 · 3 comments on HN
- 9René Girard, the Oracle of Silicon Valley1 people · 12 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 10The New Midlife Crisis for Rich Men Is Biohacking1 people · 5 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 11Vinit Bodas, Girish Bhakoo, and the Hedge Fund Scandal In Greenwich, CT1 people · 4 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 12San Francisco is now home to more dogs than children1 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · 2 comments on HN
- 13A Swiss school that raises the world's elite1 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 14The Man in the Lineup1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Tom Goldstein, a Top Supreme Court Lawyer in Washington, Faces Gambling Scandal1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
rwmj · 2025-03-22
> Then he got bored, and started thinking up ideas. The result was Air Mail, an e-mail publication he created with the journalist Alessandra Stanley which launched in 2019. E-mail, at that point, seemed retrograde and uncool—Substack was still in its youth—but, like many of Carter’s circumspect ideas, the plan had a surprising canniness. An e-mail publication was invulnerable to the caprices of social-media platforms and their algorithms. And, at last tally, Air Mail had in excess of four hundred thousand paid subscribers, which is more (but who now is counting?) than Harper’s or Fast Company.
(https://airmail.news) 400,000 paying subscribers?! It's apparently $40/year so that's $16 million in ARR, which must surely surpass many well-known magazines, and is frankly an incredible sum for an email newsletter.
Photogrammaton · 2023-07-08
I wonder whether Netflix will boost American interest in the Tour de France. Something of the kind happened with Formula 1. Interest in it here (I’m in NYC) was generally so-so, whether or not one of the races occurred here. But the 2019 launch of the Netflix documentary series Formula 1: Drive to Survive roughly coincided with the expansion of American F1 races, of which I think there are three this season, and there are now American F1 fangirls. Re the TdF, America hasn’t paid much attention in the past except when a major contender was an American, as with Greg LeMond, Lance Armstrong, and a few others. Now, however, Netflix is running a documentary series about this race, called Tour de France: Unchained. That may do the trick. On the other hand, a TdF race will never occur here, so it remains to be seen whether interest will rise regardless of that.
Fangirls ref: https://airmail.news/issues/2023-5-27/girls-just-want-to-f1 [subscriber only]
robotnikman · 2026-07-09
IIRC the US did plan in case either Japan or Germany somehow became capable of bombing the states. Some factories had their roofs painted to make them blend in with the surroundings, others were built out of reinforced concrete to make them bomb proof
https://airmail.news/arts-intel/highlights/masters-of-disguise-1253
IG_Semmelweiss · 2024-07-13
jacobolus · 2021-12-14
You may enjoy this recent article about Stephen Glass (infamous news fabulist) whose wife suffered from early-onset Alzheimer’s.
https://airmail.news/issues/2021-12-4/loving-lies