A “Modern-Day Casablanca”
How Miami Vice brought Hollywood-size ambition to the small screen—and sold a lot of Ray-Bans
The World in Watercolor
Adam Van Doren’s paintings, inspired by J. M. W. Turner and John Singer Sargent, go on show in Boston
Maeve Brennan’s New York
The collected stories of a mid-20th-century Irish writer in Manhattan recall a bygone era of Truman Capote and 50-cent martinis
Bunkers on Broadway
The playwright Patrick Marber has long struggled with tackling the Holocaust onstage. But now he’s happily directing a revival of Mel Brooks’s The Producers—complete with high-kicking storm troopers
Crafting Modernity
An exhibition of tapestries by Joan Miró, Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder, and others celebrates the craft’s 20th-century shift from classicism to modernism
Poetry in Motion
A new coffee-table book pays homage to Alexander Calder’s kinetic sculptures with a selection of works from the American artist’s most prolific period
The Lie Before Christmas
The Holiday, starring Jude Law, Cameron Diaz, and Kate Winslet, has become the quintessential yuletide film—but it’s built on a web of lies and deceit!
Gracie Lawrence
The 27-year-old Sex Lives of College Girls actress has a second life as a musician, which includes opening for the Rolling Stones
I’m Dreaming of a … Pink Christmas?
The holidays in Oaxaca, Mexico, bring cheer, gifts, and a fierce, century-old competition involving radishes, of all things
The Last Jazz-Manouche Bar in Paris
The dying art of Gypsy jazz is alive and well at La Chope des Puces, a historic bar tucked behind the 18th Arrondissement
The Dame with the Game
She stole Christopher Nolan, wooed Tom Cruise, and had Ice Cube praising the size of her cojones. How Donna Langley became the most powerful woman in Hollywood
Candid Camera
Inside the 1972 trial that pitted Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis against New York’s most unrelenting paparazzo, Ron Galella
Analyze This, Bella Freud
On this week’s podcast, the designer reflects on her hit podcast, Fashion Neurosis
A Christmas Mitzvah
From movie outings to crispy egg rolls, a guide to the yuletide season, the Jewish way
Past and Presents
Dollhouses, paper angels, fir trees … A new coffee-table book looks back at a century of holiday photographs from around the world
All in the Family
Not much is as it seems in Ingmar Bergman’s late, great, very spooky Yuletide bonbon Fanny and Alexander
The Queen of Caricature
Before Nora Ephron and Gay Talese, there was Kate Carew, a cartoonist who sat down with everyone from Mark Twain to Picasso
AIR MAIL’s 10 Best Mystery Books of 2024
Death and deceit in Ireland from Tana French and John Banville! An L.A.P.D. cold case! A wicked widow! And much more …
Ignacio Mattos’s Guide to Punta del Este
The Uruguayan chef and restaurateur behind New York’s Estela, Lodi, and Altro Paradiso shares his favorite spots in the seaside city
