A good time as any to re-read ‘The Gift of the Magi’, amirite?
Scent & Stockings by William Klein for British Vogue, 1956. And read this old Vogue piece, ‘In the Spirit’, in which former holiday cynic Salman Rushdie talks about how his blended family taught him to tolerate Christmas.
Somewhere Around Christmas by John Smith
The New Regime by Wendy Cope
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