Lunch with André Balazs
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the hotelier behind the Chateau Marmont recalls when a bouncer wouldn’t let Andy Warhol into Keith Haring’s party
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
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
Reel Treasure
Anthony Quinn, Gregory Peck, and Omar Sharif battle it out in the forgotten film version of an Emeric Pressburger novel
A Christmas Mitzvah
From movie outings to crispy egg rolls, a guide to the yuletide season, the Jewish way
Candid Camera
Inside the 1972 trial that pitted Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis against New York’s most unrelenting paparazzo, Ron Galella
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
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
Analyze This, Bella Freud
On this week’s podcast, the designer reflects on her hit podcast, Fashion Neurosis
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 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
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
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 …
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
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
Rock v. Wade
Singing and abortion rights converge in 1972, a new rock opera from the musician and activist Chadwick Stokes, produced by Laurie David and Sybil Gallagher
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
