Mystery Woman
Eight questions with crime writer Laura Lippman, whose new collection of psychological suspense stories is out this month
The French Connection
What is it about gentleman-thief Arsène Lupin, Maurice Leblanc’s answer to Sherlock Holmes, that makes him so endlessly appealing?
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 …
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
Object Lesson
A new book traces India’s history and future through 100 objects