Short List
What to read this week, from Roger Rosenblatt’s new essays to books on Venice and the origins of humankind
French Leave
Nearly ten years ago Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of rape but managed to avoid jail. A new documentary recounts the incident and its aftermath
The Female Gaze
Alongside a show at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery, a book re-evaluates the history of photography through the lens of the New Woman
Zeina Durra
With Luxor, the British filmmaker brings romance to the ruins of the Egyptian Pharaohs
Night and Day
The centenarian Eddie Jaku, who survived Kristallnacht and Auschwitz, considers himself “the happiest man on Earth”
He Keeps 007 in Gear
Good news: Ben Whishaw returns as Q in the new James Bond. Not good news: the film is still delayed
Trump in Exile
Where on earth can a defeated, disgraced president go when his White House stint is finished?
On Thin Ice
Confessions of a hockey dad
Candice Bergen Is No Dummy
What it’s like to work with Meryl Streep. And the man who turned her “to goo”
Home for the Holidays
Art, ballet, operas, carols: a cultural guide to a holiday season spent socially distanced and (mostly) at home
Away with Words
Everybody’s talking, but what’s the point when we have these songs from Charles Mingus, Art Farmer, Teddy Wilson, Coleman Hawkins, and more
AIR MAIL’s 10 Best Books of 2020
Music, film, history, and its bad boys: holiday reading for every type
Hollywood Ending
History forgot Arthur Calder-Marshall, the popular writer whose novel was picked up by Orson Welles. Now his grandson plays Welles in David Fincher’s Mank
Just When You Thought He Was Out…
Francis Ford Coppola is pulling us back in with a new edit of The Godfather Part III, timed to the film’s 30th anniversary
Coyote Ugly
Among the stars of animation’s golden age—Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig—Wile E. Coyote is the most relatable of the bunch
Breakfast Nook
Feeling ambushed in the A.M.? These tracks—from Dion, Alan Jackson, Nancy Sinatra, Little Eva, and more—will help you find the high ground
How Does It End for Trump?
Graydon Carter discusses what awaits the grifter-in-chief
