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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

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

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

Jim McMullan’s Sketchbook

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

Tye Sheridan

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

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

Disney’s World

Paul Cox’s Sketchbook

The Only Podcast You Need

Tune out the noise and tune in to Morning Meeting

A Merry Coronavirus Christmas

A warning from Santa Claus before he climbs onto his sleigh

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