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French Leave

Nearly ten years ago Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of rape but managed to avoid jail. A new documentary recounts the incident and its aftermath

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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

Artful Dodger

On Thin Ice

Confessions of a hockey dad

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

Ross MacDonald’s Sketchbook

Zeina Durra

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

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

A Little Knowledge …

Trump in Exile

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

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

Home for the Holidays

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

Night and Day

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

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

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

Groucho’s Dinner with T. S. Eliot

Comedy meets tragedy over roast beef in London

Luis Gerardo Mendez

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

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