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Pattie Boyd’s Life in Pictures

She married George Harrison and then Eric Clapton, was a muse for Mary Quant and David Hockney, and was photographed by David Bailey and Norman Parkinson, among others. Now the English model is publishing a book about it all

Jess Walter’s Rules for Writing

Eight Questions with the author, who discusses inspiration, his process, and the moment he realized Obama was a fan

Practice, Practice, Practice

Fighting Spirit

For World Opera Day, seven companies join forces to showcase Ukraine’s Golden Crown

Searching for Spain

Earl’s-Eye View

Danielle Kosann’s Sketchbook

An Artist of the Changing World

In an interview, the Nobel Prize–winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his new screenplay, for Living, a British spin on a Japanese classic

A Study in Scarlett

Learn the source of Scarlett Johansson’s dirty mind, how she ended up marrying someone from the outer boroughs, and much more, in our new podcast, Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Good Fight

Life Imitates Bruce Wagner

The true oral history of a fake oral history—and an audiobook that would make Pirandello proud

Suzanne Vega Is Watching You

The singer-songwriter performs her folk-pop hits at City Winery in Greenwich Village

Vicky Krieps

The Phantom Thread actress stars as Empress Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria, a role previously inhabited by Romy Schneider and that hints at Princess Diana’s struggles, in Corsage, out next week

AIR MAIL’s Best Coffee-Table Books of 2022

Dazzling volumes on Black cinema, Pattie Boyd’s Swinging London, and Elsa Schiaparelli’s surreal designs, plus photography collections from Janette Beckman, Saul Leiter, and Gordon Parks, and a cookbook or two

Where to Eat in Paris This Winter

Plus, what you need to know about the new AIR MAIL podcast

Fetch Me Her Slippers

From Frankfurt, Rimsky-Korsakov’s shaggy-dog Christmas Eve, a tranche of tsarist holiday cheer that resembles Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker not at all

Sleep Talking

Leading Light

Borodino or Bust

Sergei Bondarchuk’s monumental 60s film series, War and Peace, is as relevant than ever

The Next Step

Published just before the pandemic, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse captured the world with its message of kindness and went on to become the all-time best-selling U.K. hardback. Now the illustrated tale is headed to the big screen on Christmas Day

Cathy Graham’s Sketchbook

Beatrice Grannò

The Italian actress discusses her American-TV debut: The White Lotus, Season Two