Built to Last
It sputtered at the box office, but 50 years on it’s clear that Two-Lane Blacktop is the great American road movie
Out of the Blue
A century after Gainsborough’s Mona Lisa–esque Blue Boy left the U.K. for California, it’s back on show in London. So who was the boy in blue?
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
A Very Larry David Christmas
The man behind Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm breaks down his holiday routine
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
Holiday Tips
A guide to coronavirus-season gratuities
Have Yourselves a Larry David Christmas
Tune out the noise and tune in to Morning Meeting
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
The world-premiere telecast of Gian Carlo Menotti’s evergreen Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors resurfaces
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
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 …
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