Behind the Couture Curtain
A writer reveals the sketchy details of an incident Coco Chanel went to great lengths to hide
Movie City
Songs from films set in Gotham, from the Ronettes, Harry Nilsson, the Bee Gees, Public Enemy, and more
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?
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
Holiday Tips
A guide to coronavirus-season gratuities
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 …
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
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
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
Tye Sheridan
The 25-year-old stars opposite Ben Affleck in George Clooney’s coming-of-age film, The Tender Bar
A Merry Coronavirus Christmas
A warning from Santa Claus before he climbs onto his sleigh
