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Have Yourselves a Larry David Christmas

Tune out the noise and tune in to Morning Meeting

Better by Design

Holiday Tips

A guide to coronavirus-season gratuities

Behind the Couture Curtain

A writer reveals the sketchy details of an incident Coco Chanel went to great lengths to hide

Behind Enemy Lines

A new play revisits the bellicose 1968 Gore Vidal v. William F. Buckley Jr. presidential-nominating debates with the benefit of hindsight

Celluloid City

A Very Larry David Christmas

The man behind Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm breaks down his holiday routine

Movie City

Songs from films set in Gotham, from the Ronettes, Harry Nilsson, the Bee Gees, Public Enemy, and more

The History of Mr. Wells

Jim McMullan’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Magic of Jan Morris

Will we ever have another like the Welsh writer extraordinaire who managed to write as beautifully on Che Guevara as she did on the virtues of sneezing?

Theater Pick of the Week

From Shakespeare’s Globe, in London, an Elizabethan Twelfth Night for the ages

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

Opera Pick of the Week

The world-premiere telecast of Gian Carlo Menotti’s evergreen Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors resurfaces

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 …

Tye Sheridan

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

The Only Podcast You Need

Tune out the noise and tune in to Morning Meeting

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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

Paul Cox’s Sketchbook

Object Lesson

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