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Issue No. 126

The View from Here My lunch with a love-addled suicide bomber. Welcome to life in the new Afghanistan

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The Man in the Lineup Alice Sebold’s best-selling account of her own rape was headed for the big screen. Then the film’s unlikely producer started asking questions

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Battle of the Butt-Dialing Billionaires This family war makes Succession look like The Brady Bunch

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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Merry Coronavirus Christmas A warning from Santa Claus before he climbs onto his sleigh

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Guest Edit

My Favorite Things Ceramic artist and former fashion model Carey Lowell—who’s appeared in films and TV shows from License to Kill and Law & Order to Sleepless in Seattle—lists the products winning in her wardrobe and topping her wish list

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Linguine, with a Side of Sinatra At Patsy’s, a motley crew of Frank Sinatra singers meets once a year for chicken parm and shoptalk

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George Clooney Is Happy to Pour You a Drink He’s 60 and his hair is more salt than pepper now, but the actor–director–tequila baron still has plenty to say

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Eye of the Beholder AIR MAIL’s new columnist reflects on her lockdown skin-care regimen, peeling back the layers to reveal its true value

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Small Talk
“Mooom! Billy is founding a multi-national tech company!”

Hallmark Endings The Hallmark Channel has transformed Christmas into countless variations on one winning formula. Herewith, a few plot-twist suggestions to keep things interesting

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Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman in Licorice Pizza, 2021 Watch Licorice Pizza In his latest film, Licorice Pizza, director Paul Thomas Anderson returns to his youth: the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s Send Paperless Post’s Letters to Santa Ever have to reassure a child that her Christmas wish list will, in fact, reach the North Pole? NO CHARGE NO CREDIT Travel Globe-Trotter x Warm & Wonderful The “black sheep” sweater notoriously worn by feisty Diana, Princess of Wales, several times in the 80s Sparkle Mish Fine Jewelry It’s fine-jewelry season, and whether you’re giving, getting, or just admiring the stuff, we have some important news. Designer Mish Tworkowski Read South of Somewhere Southern Italy is as much a character in Robert V. Camuto’s South of Somewhere: Wine, Food, and the Soul of Italy as are the wine and food… NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 29: A passenger reads the front page of the Wall Street Journal reporting on tech company executives testifying to a congressional committee investigating monopoly policies on October 29, 2020 in New York City. The executives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google are shown on the newspaper’s front page. Listen The Journal I know everyone listens to The Daily, the podcast from The New York Times. It’s terrific. Listeners should also try The Journal Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman in Licorice Pizza, 2021 Watch Licorice Pizza In his latest film, Licorice Pizza, director Paul Thomas Anderson returns to his youth: the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s Send Paperless Post’s Letters to Santa Ever have to reassure a child that her Christmas wish list will, in fact, reach the North Pole? NO CHARGE NO CREDIT Travel Globe-Trotter x Warm & Wonderful The “black sheep” sweater notoriously worn by feisty Diana, Princess of Wales, several times in the 80s Sparkle Mish Fine Jewelry It’s fine-jewelry season, and whether you’re giving, getting, or just admiring the stuff, we have some important news. Designer Mish Tworkowski Read South of Somewhere Southern Italy is as much a character in Robert V. Camuto’s South of Somewhere: Wine, Food, and the Soul of Italy as are the wine and food… NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 29: A passenger reads the front page of the Wall Street Journal reporting on tech company executives testifying to a congressional committee investigating monopoly policies on October 29, 2020 in New York City. The executives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google are shown on the newspaper’s front page. Listen The Journal I know everyone listens to The Daily, the podcast from The New York Times. It’s terrific. Listeners should also try The Journal

Charge of the Minutemen Before The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight, there was Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris’s “brain-changing” news-radio satire, On the Hour

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“And best of all, it’s meat-free.”

The Only Podcast You Need Tune out the noise and tune in to Morning Meeting

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Disney’s World

Back in the day, Walt Disney’s animators were meticulous about their research. To get the deer and other animals in Bambi right, they trooped off to the zoo for observation and sketching, then wrangled fawns, does, rabbits, and who knows what else into the studio for more of the same. Disney’s fairy-tale features didn’t aspire to quite that level of naturalism—no one at the studio was dissecting pixie anatomy—but neither did they lack for real-world grounding. READ ON

At the Met, in New York, a charming new show explores the 18th-century French decorative objects that inspired the Disney classics Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Beauty and the Beast.

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Small Talk
“It’s technically a milkshake, but if I call it a ‘smoothie,’ I can have it for breakfast.”

House Beautiful How to live smashingly in the French countryside, according to Dior’s Cordelia de Castellane

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Tye Sheridan The 25-year-old stars opposite Ben Affleck in George Clooney’s coming-of-age film, The Tender Bar

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Small Talk
“I’m afraid your test results came back with a frowny face and a rain cloud.”
Open Book

Object Lesson A new book traces India’s history and future through 100 objects

Books

Face the Music: A Memoir

by Peter Duchin with Patricia Beard
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Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War

by Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman
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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

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See for Yourself

A collection of songs that will help you consider whether you are—or are at least part of—a work of art

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Hold tight and carry on skating. You’ve got just a few more weeks to skate at the ice rink at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London—the museum’s expanding Wildlife Garden will take over the rink space early next year.
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In Memoriam

Richard David Story (1952–2021)

Issue No. 126
December 11, 2021
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Issue No. 126
December 11, 2021

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