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A Wild Adventure Awaits in 2022

Give yourself the gift of good conversation, with Morning Meeting

Joe McKendry’s Sketchbook

Forever Elizabeth

Photographers Douglas Kirkland, Gered Mankowitz, Norman Parkinson, Milton Greene, Terry O’Neill, and Gary Bernstein offer different looks at Hollywood’s brightest star

Clock Wise

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

Celluloid City

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?

Have Yourselves a Larry David Christmas

Tune out the noise and tune in to Morning Meeting

Better by Design

Jim McMullan’s Sketchbook

Behind the Couture Curtain

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

At Christmas, You Tell the Truth

The romantic-comedy king Richard Curtis reveals never-before-heard details about the making of the holiday classic Love Actually

A Very Larry David Christmas

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

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 …

The Date That Lives in Infamy

Piano Man