Digital Demi-Gods of Dice
The digital quest to conquer backgammon, a game dating back to ancient times, has been won. What now?
Writer’s Woes, According to Ottessa Moshfegh
The Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation author has a new short story reflecting her old frame of mind
The French Connection
What is it about gentleman-thief Arsène Lupin, Maurice Leblanc’s answer to Sherlock Holmes, that makes him so endlessly appealing?
Mystery Woman
Eight questions with crime writer Laura Lippman, whose new collection of psychological suspense stories is out this month
Witches and Wizards and Wonders, Oh My!
Illustrations old and new bring the world of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to life
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
A Word from the Wiseguys
Twenty-two years after The Sopranos premiered, a new oral history revisits the gritty mobster universe the show created
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
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?
Behind the Couture Curtain
A writer reveals the sketchy details of an incident Coco Chanel went to great lengths to hide
AIR MAIL’s 10 Best Books of 2021
Hustlers, hippies, artists, transcendentalists: holiday reading for every type
