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A Letter From Santa Claus Between the new tariffs, ICE crackdowns, and naval hostilities in the Atlantic, Christmas is going to be a little different this year

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“Area Loser Wants Job” The longest-serving editor of The Onion on how a group of “unemployable” twentysomethings created America’s foremost satirical publication


The Art of Living From Frida Kahlo’s family home to Leon Trotsky’s last residence, the six houses worth visiting in Mexico City

Christmas in Black and White From Santas protesting on Fifth Avenue to plastic Nativity scenes, a new coffee-table book collects Lee Friedlander’s pictures of the holidays in America

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Raiders of the Lost Arcade Dick and Jeannette Seaver befriended Samuel Beckett in Paris, marched with Allen Ginsberg in Chicago, and introduced readers to radical books of all stripes

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The Dickens of Detroit On the centenary of Elmore Leonard’s birth, a look back at how the American novelist redefined the crime genre with his colorful characters and unvarnished prose

When Ulysses Came to New York How Bennett Cerf, the co-founder of Random House and famed publisher of Eugene O’Neill and Truman Capote, brought James Joyce’s controversial novel to the U.S.


Surviving Picasso In her new book, Hidden Portraits, Sue Roe unpacks the little-known stories of the women who fell for the notorious womanizer

Architecture’s Black Sheep With more than 200 archival works, an exhibition in Chicago honors Bruce Goff, the Frank Lloyd Wright protégé whose eccentric midcentury houses broke free of modernist restraint

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Gifts for Yourself There’s only one way to make sure you get what you want this holiday season. Buy it yourself with AIR SUPPLY’s guide to delightfully selfish gifts

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At Christmas, You Tell the Truth The romantic-comedy king Richard Curtis reveals never-before-heard details about the making of the holiday classic Love Actually

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