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On Thin Ice

Confessions of a hockey dad

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

Candice Bergen Is No Dummy

What it’s like to work with Meryl Streep. And the man who turned her “to goo”

Strength in Numbers

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

AIR MAIL’s 10 Best Books of 2020

Music, film, history, and its bad boys: holiday reading for every type

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Elliott Erwitt’s Paris

Photographs capture the romance of the City of Lights but also the whimsy of life on its streets

Crown Jewels

Luis Gerardo Mendez

The actor made it big in Mexico. Now he’s bringing diversity and humor to Hollywood

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

Yesterday

Then and Now

Schlock and Awe

Confessions of a male Hallmark-Christmas-movie addict

Groucho’s Dinner with T. S. Eliot

Comedy meets tragedy over roast beef in London

Jean-Luc Godard at 90

The New Wave director pokes the artificial veil of Instagram

The Populist and His Flock

The rise and fall of Father Coughlin, the Depression-era version of the departing president

Ralph Steadman’s Sketchbook

How Does It End for Trump?

Graydon Carter discusses what awaits the grifter-in-chief

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

Hypnotized by Chess

Beth Harmon’s doe-eyed gaze reflects centuries of chess in art history

In Love and Song

In Vienna, a new exhibition showcases the lives of Jan Kiepura and Marta Eggerth, husband-and-wife stars of opera and operetta on both sides of the Atlantic