It’s Robert Welch’s World—We’re Just Living in It
How the relatively unknown American conservative shaped our society more than anyone else
Forever Elizabeth
Photographers Douglas Kirkland, Gered Mankowitz, Norman Parkinson, Milton Greene, Terry O’Neill, and Gary Bernstein offer different looks at Hollywood’s brightest star
A Word from the Wiseguys
Twenty-two years after The Sopranos premiered, a new oral history revisits the gritty mobster universe the show created
Behind the Couture Curtain
A writer reveals the sketchy details of an incident Coco Chanel went to great lengths to hide
The Magic of Jan Morris
Will we ever have another like the Welsh writer extraordinaire who managed to write as beautifully on Che Guevara as she did on the virtues of sneezing?
AIR MAIL’s 10 Best Books of 2021
Hustlers, hippies, artists, transcendentalists: holiday reading for every type
AIR MAIL’s Eight Best Mystery Books of 2021
Anthony Horowitz, Sarah Moss, Val McDermid, and more …
Object Lesson
A new book traces India’s history and future through 100 objects
The Call of the Wild
A mountaineer spent his life scaling the world’s great heights. Then he lost a friend in an avalanche, and everything—well, most everything—changed
Tough Luck
Revisiting Lucky Jim, which Kingsley Amis wrote in collaboration with Philip Larkin before the friends fell out, a writer uncovers equal parts humor and spite
Crown of Thorns
A new book reveals the identity of the royal whom Meghan and Harry called out in their Oprah interview. Hint: he’s next in line to the throne
Nanny Diaries
A new book tells the story of Vivian Maier, the 20th-century nanny who led a secret life as a street photographer
Boeing’s Double Game
Why was a sole Boeing employee criminally charged in the 737 MAX debacle that cost 346 lives and at least $21 billion?
