Long Live La Latteria
Over six decades, the couple behind this quaint Milanese spot served spaghetti al limone to Kennedys, Agnellis, artists, and locals alike
Playing Hardball
Separating the man from the myth of Pete Rose, one of baseball’s most fabled—and controversial—stars
Lunch with Michael Mann
On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the Ferrari director and action-film master discusses the importance of surrounding oneself with strong characters, writing Heat 2, and how Miami Vice defined a decade
Murder, They Wrote
The settings for this month’s best mystery books range from the Las Vegas underworld to cosseted suburban London
Divided We Fail
Alex Garland’s Civil War hurtles through the ravaging violence and chilling anomie of a Disunited States
What Woody Allen Told Me
On this week’s podcast, Sam Wasson takes us inside his conversation with the writer-director
“All the Romance of Filmmaking Is Gone”
Woody Allen on Paris, cancel culture, retirement, and “the whole mortality question”
A Place in the Sun
Eighteen months and 35,000 sheets of gold leaf later, Louis XIV’s prized Apollo Fountain sculpture returns to Versailles in a sparkling restoration
Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Here? Not One?
No, no, not one in Sasha Regan’s well-traveled all-male The Pirates of Penzance
Renaissance Women
A new book spotlights four forgotten female writers who were contemporaries of Shakespeare’s but cut out of history
What the Hell Is Gwyneth Cooking Up Now?
On this week’s podcast, Jensen Davis taste-tests Goop Kitchen
Around the World with Steve McCurry
Refugee camps in Pakistan, civil wars in Cambodia, religious ceremonies in India … A new book collects more than 100 images by the American photojournalist
Godsmacked
Weeding out the Garden of Eden
Flappers to the Wings!
The Great Gatsby made F. Scott Fitzgerald’s name, but the Broadway play of his book made him rich. A copy of the long-lost script has finally been found
A Publisher of One’s Own
For 25 years, Persephone Books has been turning the works of forgotten female writers into unexpected best-sellers
Katana and Crumpets
The new hit TV mini-series Shōgun has re-ignited interest in the rollicking life of the Englishman William Adams, Japan’s first foreign samurai
Against the Grain
The Museum of Modern Art exhibits New York’s first-ever retrospective on Käthe Kollwitz, one of history’s greatest graphic artists—and one of its most outspoken pacifists
From the Metropol Hotel to Hollywood
In an interview, Amor Towles discusses adapting A Gentleman in Moscow for the screen and the inspiration behind his newest book, Table for Two