How Two Cops in 80s Miami Set the Mold for The Sopranos
On this week’s podcast, Josh Karp looks at Miami Vice on its 40th anniversary, and how it changed TV
A “Modern-Day Casablanca”
How Miami Vice brought Hollywood-size ambition to the small screen—and sold a lot of Ray-Bans
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
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 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
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
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
Candid Camera
Inside the 1972 trial that pitted Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis against New York’s most unrelenting paparazzo, Ron Galella
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
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!
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
A Christmas Mitzvah
From movie outings to crispy egg rolls, a guide to the yuletide season, the Jewish way
Analyze This, Bella Freud
On this week’s podcast, the designer reflects on her hit podcast, Fashion Neurosis
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
AIR MAIL’s Best Coffee-Table Books of 2024
Dazzling volumes on Rosario Candela’s New York City penthouses and David Hockney’s works on paper, plus photography collections from Ernest Cole, Eve Arnold, and Ruth Orkin and a look inside an Italian home or two
The Place to Be
For a few short years in the 1970s, New Times magazine punched way above its weight, tackling the big issues of the day while elevating a new generation of writers