The New Statesman’s choice of the year’s essential fiction and non-fiction.

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By Scott Tobias Does a Christmas movie have to be about Christmas? If it merely takes place around Christmas, how prominently does the holiday have to feature for it to qualify? And really ...

There are Christmas classics, and then there are the twists and plays on old tropes and plots that arrive to add to the holiday’s expanding catalog every year. Netflix has a new Christmas-themed ...