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The View from Here There’s a clear line from Bush v. Gore, 25 years ago, to the January 6 insurrection

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Raiders of the Lost Arcade Dick and Jeannette Seaver befriended Samuel Beckett in Paris, marched with Allen Ginsberg in Chicago, and introduced readers to radical books of all stripes

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The $158 $170 Million Question: Part III As the Senate investigation into Leon Black and his ties to Jeffrey Epstein intensifies, the billionaire financier’s son joins the Trump administration

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AIR MAIL’s Annual Over-Under List From Yorgos Lanthimos and Labubus to King Charles and the mold at Bathhouse, this year’s most overhyped and underhyped things

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Small Talk
“We had to reschedule his surgery, it was interfering with our holiday party.”
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read The Jane Austen Collection For the Janeite in your life, there can be no greater gift than the Folio Society’s sumptuous, 250th watch The Family Stone Is your significant other bringing you home to meet the in-laws for the holidays? Watching The Family Stone the night before… order Seremoni Hosting a Feast of the Seven Fishes as seen in The Bear? Seremoni has your back. The company modernizing the Japanese ike light Jo Malone Candles have long developed the bad reputation of being a middle-aged woman’s favorite low-effort gift to regift, as seen… decorate John Derian The holidays are all about enjoying life’s little luxuries. Luckily, John Derian knows how to make that feeling—of hope and unapologetic… see It’s a Wonderful Life! For a fresh take on Frank Capra’s classic holiday film, head to the Irish Repertory Theatre in… read The Jane Austen Collection For the Janeite in your life, there can be no greater gift than the Folio Society’s sumptuous, 250th watch The Family Stone Is your significant other bringing you home to meet the in-laws for the holidays? Watching The Family Stone the night before… order Seremoni Hosting a Feast of the Seven Fishes as seen in The Bear? Seremoni has your back. The company modernizing the Japanese ike light Jo Malone Candles have long developed the bad reputation of being a middle-aged woman’s favorite low-effort gift to regift, as seen… decorate John Derian The holidays are all about enjoying life’s little luxuries. Luckily, John Derian knows how to make that feeling—of hope and unapologetic… see It’s a Wonderful Life! For a fresh take on Frank Capra’s classic holiday film, head to the Irish Repertory Theatre in…
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Dinner-Party Math The calculations behind an evening that looks effortless, costs too much, and—despite everything—works

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Open Book

The Best Coffee-Table Books of 2025 Dazzling volumes on the Beatles, Blondie, the French New Wave, panoramic tennis courts, and palazzos, plus photography collections by Weegee and Larry Fink—and a cookbook or two


AIR MAIL’s Mystery Christmas Grab Bag A John Banville thriller set in Venice! A murder at the opera! A con man gets his comeuppance! And more mysteries to curl up with this holiday season …

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Ben Radcliffe From Masters of the Air to a John Travolta–led film set in 1957, the 27-year-old has shown a taste for the old-school. His latest role, in the Downton Abbey–meets–Monty Python spoof Fackham Hall, is no exception

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Around the World in Culture

Gerald Finley’s Long Game At 65, Canada’s star bass-baritone is cruising through another annus mirabilis

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Architecture with the Power of Art Frank Gehry, more than anyone since Frank Lloyd Wright, made cutting-edge buildings that were genuinely popular

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Issue No. 335
December 13, 2025
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Issue No. 335
December 13, 2025

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