Behind the Couture Curtain
A writer reveals the sketchy details of an incident Coco Chanel went to great lengths to hide
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 …
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
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
A Merry Coronavirus Christmas
A warning from Santa Claus before he climbs onto his sleigh
Tye Sheridan
The 25-year-old stars opposite Ben Affleck in George Clooney’s coming-of-age film, The Tender Bar
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
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
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 Only Podcast You Need
Tune out the noise and tune in to Morning Meeting
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)
