Modern Times
A new coffee-table book gathers the work of 300 designers—among them Florence Knoll, Lina Bo Bardi, and Charles Eames—whose creations shaped midcentury style around the world
Fran Lebowitz Lays Down the Law
In an interview, the author and wit casts her judgment on Labubus, leaf blowers, and needless expressions of love
Love Child
Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid is the centerpiece of a new exhibition in London, marking the first time the 17th-century painting—a visionary work that helped usher in the Baroque—has gone on public view in the U.K.
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part I
How the unlikely, tumultuous partnership of Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller produced the true-crime masterpiece The Executioner’s Song
Architecture’s Black Sheep
With more than 200 archival works, an exhibition in Chicago honors Bruce Goff, the Frank Lloyd Wright protégé whose eccentric midcentury houses broke free of modernist restraint
The Sarkozy Redemption Tour
The former French president has turned his 20 days in prison—Soggy baguettes! Plastic pillows!—into a 200-page best-selling memoir
“Area Loser Wants Job”
The longest-serving editor of The Onion on how a group of “unemployable” twentysomethings created America’s foremost satirical publication
Everybody Loves Emily in Paris
Darren Star, the mastermind behind the hit Netflix show, reveals how he writes about women, won over the French—and what Emily could do next
Christmas in Black and White
From Santas protesting on Fifth Avenue to plastic Nativity scenes, a new coffee-table book collects Lee Friedlander’s pictures of the holidays in America
The Dickens of Detroit
On the centenary of Elmore Leonard’s birth, a look back at how the American novelist redefined the crime genre with his colorful characters and unvarnished prose
Harold Koda’s Guide to Honolulu
The former curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute shares his go-to spots in his hometown
Gerald Finley’s Long Game
At 65, Canada’s star bass-baritone is cruising through another annus mirabilis
AIR MAIL’s Mystery Christmas Grab Bag
A John Banville thriller set in Venice! A murder at the opera! A con man gets his comeuppance! And more mysteries to curl up with this holiday season …
Raiders of the Lost Arcade
Dick and Jeannette Seaver befriended Samuel Beckett in Paris, marched with Allen Ginsberg in Chicago, and introduced readers to radical books of all stripes
The Best Coffee-Table Books of 2025
Dazzling volumes on the Beatles, Blondie, the French New Wave, panoramic tennis courts, and palazzos, plus photography collections by Weegee and Larry Fink—and a cookbook or two
Ben Radcliffe
From Masters of the Air to a John Travolta–led film set in 1957, the 27-year-old has shown a taste for the old-school. His latest role, in the Downton Abbey–meets–Monty Python spoof Fackham Hall, is no exception
When Ulysses Came to New York
How Bennett Cerf, the co-founder of Random House and famed publisher of Eugene O’Neill and Truman Capote, brought James Joyce’s controversial novel to the U.S.
AIR MAIL’s 10 Best Mystery Books of 2025
A pub trivia night gone wrong! A post-Brexit government conspiracy! A drug-kingpin granny! And much more …
Nick Cave’s Guide to Chicago
The American sculptor shares his go-to spots in the city he calls home
