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Ross MacDonald’s Sketchbook

Trump in Exile

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

What If … Peter Morgan’s Sequel to The Crown Were The Trump?

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

Artful Dodger

A Little Knowledge …

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”

Zeina Durra

With Luxor, the British filmmaker brings romance to the ruins of the Egyptian Pharaohs

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

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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

Then and Now

Luis Gerardo Mendez

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

Jean-Luc Godard at 90

The New Wave director pokes the artificial veil of Instagram

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Ralph Steadman’s Sketchbook

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