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Opera Pick of the Week

Tesla sings! Les Éclairs at the Opéra Comique, in Paris, takes liberties with the biography of the Serbian visionary, to electric effect

AIR MAIL’s 10 Best Books of 2021

Hustlers, hippies, artists, transcendentalists: holiday reading for every type

AIR MAIL’s Eight Best Mystery Books of 2021

Anthony Horowitz, Sarah Moss, Val McDermid, and more …

Hallmark Endings

The Hallmark Channel has transformed Christmas into countless variations on one winning formula. Herewith, a few plot-twist suggestions to keep things interesting

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Tye Sheridan

The 25-year-old stars opposite Ben Affleck in George Clooney’s coming-of-age film, The Tender Bar

George Clooney Is Happy to Pour You a Drink

He’s 60 and his hair is more salt than pepper now, but the actor–director–tequila baron still has plenty to say

Piano Man

Disney’s World

The Only Podcast You Need

Tune out the noise and tune in to Morning Meeting

A Merry Coronavirus Christmas

A warning from Santa Claus before he climbs onto his sleigh

Linguine, with a Side of Sinatra

At Patsy’s, a motley crew of Frank Sinatra singers meets once a year for chicken parm and shoptalk

Charge of the Minutemen

Before The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight, there was Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris’s “brain-changing” news-radio satire, On the Hour

The Call of the Wild

A mountaineer spent his life scaling the world’s great heights. Then he lost a friend in an avalanche, and everything—well, most everything—changed

Paul Cox’s Sketchbook

The Date That Lives in Infamy

See for Yourself

A collection of songs that will help you consider whether you are—or are at least part of—a work of art

Object Lesson

A new book traces India’s history and future through 100 objects

Opera Pick of the Week

From Adolphe Adam, composer of the tragic ballet Giselle, an operatic soap bubble starring a postman with a knockout high D

Tough Luck

Revisiting Lucky Jim, which Kingsley Amis wrote in collaboration with Philip Larkin before the friends fell out, a writer uncovers equal parts humor and spite

Miami Vice

Downtown New York’s cool set and crypto bros decamped to Miami for a weekend of parties (and some art, where they could fit it in)

Eric Hanson’s Sketchbook

And Five, Six, Seven, Eight!

Lovers of Sondheim bolted to this gritty piano bar in Greenwich Village to grieve—and sing!

The Full Jeff Dazzle

He’s 69 and has two kids under the age of 7, but Jeff Goldblum is busier than ever, thanks to a new Disney+ show