Elena Clavarino
When Eisie Met Loren
“She was the most captivating and the nicest and the most hardworking actress I’ve ever met”: a new coffee-table book collects the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt’s timeless pictures of the Italian cinema icon Sophia Loren
Cast Away
On the Caribbean island of Bequia, Mustique’s quieter sister, a cliffside compound likened to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and Antoni Gaudí’s Park Güell offers a different kind of luxury
The View from Here
Why the next Winter Olympics may be hosted in the desert
The View from Here
An investigation has been launched into the Swiss nightclub fire that left 40 dead—many of them teenagers—but trust in the European system remains shaken
Modern Times
A new coffee-table book gathers the work of 300 designers—among them Florence Knoll, Lina Bo Bardi, and Charles Eames—whose creations shaped midcentury style around the world
If Having a Boyfriend Is Embarrassing, What Does That Mean About Husbands?
A viral Vogue article has our newly married editor in a tailspin
Calabria’s Mafia Buster
Today, the ‘Ndrangheta brings in six times as much money as Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel does. One Italian public prosecutor has made it his life’s mission to take them down
Vincent Lo Brutto and Pablo Stahl
With their Parisian gallery and its unconventional outpost at Basel’s private airport terminal, the French gallerist duo is moving beyond the bounds of traditional curation
Harmonia Rosales
Known for re-creating Renaissance paintings with Black characters, the artist is now making her authorial debut to preserve African myths for future generations
Beware Calabrians Speaking Greek
Nestled among the mountains at the tip of Italy’s boot is a constellation of villages that still speak a Greek dialect dating back more than 3,000 years
Chuck George
The Filipino-American chef is taking the smashburger craze across the Atlantic with Chuck’s
A Library Grows in Tuscany
Beatrice Monti della Corte has been welcoming writers to her villa outside Florence for years. Now she’s unveiling a two-story library next door
Face Time
From Whitney Houston to Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Louise Bourgeois to Kate Moss, a new coffee-table book collects a lifetime of portraits by the photographer Bruce Weber
Back from the Dead
Jim Marshall’s Grateful Dead photos, capturing the calm and chaos of the 1960s rock ‘n’ roll scene, are collected in a new coffee-table book
Tenn out of Tenn
Svenskt Tenn, the Stockholm-based design company shaped by Estrid Ericson and Josef Frank, celebrates its centennial with an archival coffee-table book
Rage and Ravioli on Lake Garda
Italy’s Rana family, of the global pasta empire, is rumored to be in hot water with locals over renovations to a historic estate on Lake Garda better suited to Las Vegas than to Como’s quainter cousin
The Secret Gardens
From Stephen Sills’s retreat in Westchester to Veere Grenney’s oasis in Tangier, a new coffee-table book showcases the private sanctuaries of celebrated interior designers
A Hungarian in Paris
A new coffee-table book collects Brassaï’s photographs of the City of Light, his adopted home and muse for more than 50 years