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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

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

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

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

Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch

Hunker down with the holiday season’s best mysteries

Lunch with Ted Sarandos

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the Netflix co-C.E.O. tells host Bruce Bozzi how the idea for the streaming company all started with a $40 late charge for an Apollo 13 rental

Inside AIR MAIL’s 2024 Over-Under List

On this week’s podcast, Jeanne Malle tells us about the people and things that were over- (and under-) hyped this year

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

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Nicholas Knucklehead

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

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

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

Going, Going … Godard

Centered around Jean-Luc Godard’s last works, an exhibition in London honors the French New Wave filmmaker’s final years

The Anti–Mitford Sisters

AIR MAIL’s 10 Best Books of 2024

Percival Everett’s twist on Huckleberry Finn; biographies of Reagan and Isherwood, Didion, and Babitz; and more holiday reading for every type

Sebastián Faena’s Guide to Buenos Aires

The filmmaker and photographer shares his favorite spots in his home city

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook