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Home for the Holidays

Art, ballet, operas, carols: a cultural guide to a holiday season spent socially distanced and (mostly) at home

Candice Bergen Is No Dummy

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

On Thin Ice

Confessions of a hockey dad

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

Ross MacDonald’s Sketchbook

Night and Day

The centenarian Eddie Jaku, who survived Kristallnacht and Auschwitz, considers himself “the happiest man on Earth”

Trump in Exile

Where on earth can a defeated, disgraced president go when his White House stint is finished?

Strength in Numbers

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

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

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

Jean-Luc Godard at 90

The New Wave director pokes the artificial veil of Instagram

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Populist and His Flock

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

Groucho’s Dinner with T. S. Eliot

Comedy meets tragedy over roast beef in London

Hypnotized by Chess

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