Dante’s Suburbia
Novelist Tom Perrotta, our poet laureate of high-school angst, revisits his best-known character in his latest book, Tracy Flick Can’t Win. Decades have gone by, he says, but Tracy’s small-town torments (and ours) still haven’t changed
Murder, They Wrote
This month’s crime novels take readers around the world, from Boston and Edinburgh to islands in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean
Crooked Teeth and Dodgy Leaders
Though it came as a shock to many, Brexit was nothing more than the latest round in an argument as old as the British Isles themselves
The Clown Prince
Post-Jubilee, Harry reports back to Netflix*
Women Beware Women
Gillian Anderson and Lily James chew the scenery in All About Eve
Creature of the Night
The former director of the 90s’ hottest nightclubs reveals the work behind the parties
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
A retired C.I.A. officer gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case
Paradise Found
Grandi Giardini Italiani, which works to protect and manage Italy’s best gardens, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a heavenly new book
The Shot Heard Round Russia
The little-known story of how Catherine the Great conquered her fear of doctors to inoculate herself and her country against smallpox
Flight Songs
If you can’t get enough of our winged friends’ melodious music, you just might love these tunes that pay tribute to them, from Jimi Hendrix, Regina Spektor, Townes Van Zandt, and more
Political Clout
After a nine-year hiatus, the prescient Danish drama Borgen and its lead character, Birgitte Nyborg, have a lot to say
The Coaster Correspondence 2.0
Ned Coaster, brother of Ed, gives AIR MAIL’s editors some invaluable advice
A Cold War Spy Caper
Moviemaker Whit Stillman on the story behind his story. Plus, Errol Morris stops by
