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Night and Day

The centenarian Eddie Jaku, who survived Kristallnacht and Auschwitz, considers himself “the happiest man on Earth”

The Female Gaze

Alongside a show at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery, a book re-evaluates the history of photography through the lens of the New Woman

Artful Dodger

On Thin Ice

Confessions of a hockey dad

Strength in Numbers

Hollywood Ending

History forgot Arthur Calder-Marshall, the popular writer whose novel was picked up by Orson Welles. Now his grandson plays Welles in David Fincher’s Mank

AIR MAIL’s 10 Best Books of 2020

Music, film, history, and its bad boys: holiday reading for every type

Then and Now

Coyote Ugly

Among the stars of animation’s golden age—Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig—Wile E. Coyote is the most relatable of the bunch

Yesterday

Hide and Seek

Will Maclean added a single extra word to each of the first 1,000 copies of his debut novel. Together, they tell a short story—one which readers are eagerly piecing together

Subterranean Writer’s Block Blues

Having trouble putting pen to paper (or fingers to keys)? Believe it or not, taking the subway might offer salvation

There and Back Again

A never-before-published collection of essays by J. R. R. Tolkien will reveal new details about The Lord of the Rings

A Day in the Life

Lady Anne Glenconner discusses her friendship with Princess Margaret, her abusive husband, and finally finding happiness

Pakistan on the Edge

Murder, They Wrote

Birthplaces of Cool

A new book explores masterpieces of architecture by Gio Ponti, Luis Barragán, and Lina Bo Bardi, and the people who live in them

The Game Is Afoot

Netflix and the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle are butting heads over Sherlock Holmes’s true identity

Ashamed Shamans

Ex Dysmorphia

All bets are off when your ex-boyfriend has a new girlfriend

Gossip Girl Grows Up

Gossip Girl creator Cecily von Ziegesar sets her sights on the parents of Cobble Hill, Brooklyn

Back to the 70s

Bill Flanagan’s new novel is a music-inspired riff on time-travel classics. In an interview with the author, Tom Freston discusses going back in time—and the best age to do it