Boll & Branch might be best known for its buttery-soft bedsheets, but this year’s Holiday Shop collection makes all-things-cozy equally tempting. Enter the Sunday lounge robe. When waffle feels too thin, Turkish plush too heavy, and a simple cardigan not quite enough, this thick-gauge ribbed-knit number made of 100 percent organic cotton is Goldilocks’s “just right.” Wear it before bed, or right after waking up, or all day—we won’t judge. ($199, BollandBranch.com) —Jimena Elmufdi

Sixty years ago this week, the Arno flooded Florence and thousands of young volunteers from Italy and abroad descended on the city to rescue its books, documents, and paintings from the mud. They became known as “the mud angels.” To mark the anniversary, Santa Maria Novella, the famed Florentine perfumer, has created a limited-edition eau de cologne, Angeli di Firenze. The handsome box is worth keeping long after the bottle is empty. The fragrance is available only at select Santa Maria Novella boutiques, not online, so acquiring it requires a little effort. Somehow, that feels right for this occasion. Most anniversaries get a plaque. Florence gets a perfume. ($380, smnovella.com) —Jennifer Noyes

Set in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, The Last Metro—directed by François Truffaut four years before his death—follows the members of the Théâtre Montmartre company as they prepare for their first performance without their esteemed Jewish director and playwright, Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent), who has gone into hiding in the theater’s cellar. His wife, Marion (Catherine Deneuve), a film star turned actress, must take over management of the theater in addition to performing with the company, including her newly hired co-star, Bernard (Gérard Depardieu). The onstage production mirrors the characters’ private lives, creating a psychologically complex story exploring the contradictions of beauty, survival, loyalty, and art. Winner of 10 César Awards, including Best Film, this layered romantic drama contains the sentimentalities of an epic, while never losing sight of its political and deeply human essence. (hbomax.com) —Eve Eismann

Yes, yes, I know many folks are transfixed by a certain hockey love story now filming its second season, but The Intangibles is a better hockey love story, albeit without the thrusting sex. Or any sex at all, for that matter, since this is a love story about fathers and sons and friends who bond on the ice rink. This is Nick Paumgarten’s first book, and it is a winner, taking the reader from his days in a youth hockey league to being one of those men, some young, some middle-aged, who play hockey two or three nights a week and then return to off-ice jobs during the day, which in the author’s case is as a writer for The New Yorker. Why Paumgarten and others do this to themselves (crutches and slings are not uncommon consequences) is a mystery he explores in this poetic book, including by interviewing other members of his beer-league team called the Intangibles. His father skated, and his mother had been a competitive figure skater, so one supposes ice ran in his veins. His two sons take up the sticks, which affords Paumgarten the chance to see how much the game has changed for five-year-olds in Manhattan since he was a kid. This book works on several levels, about family and parenting and marriage (his patient wife becomes a hockey mom of sorts), and its wisdom remains long after the ice melts. ($32, penguinrandomhouse.com) —Jim Kelly

Launched in 1977, Elie Tahari has dressed sophisticated women from the age of disco—his first runway show was held at Studio 54—to today, coming up with timeless essentials such as the tube top. (You read that right!) Fifty years on, Elie Tahari enters a new chapter with his 25-year-old son, Jeremey, at the helm. His Fall in Tribeca collection celebrates the brand’s history, re-conceptualized for the modern woman, with luxurious fabrics, rich colors, and, naturally, a strong shoulder. The pieces—perfect for the office, Thanksgiving dinner, or even a late-night dirty martini—are on view at the Elie Tahari installation on Madison Avenue, now through November 20. (elietahari.com) —Gracie Wiener

Today, Ordinary People is probably best remembered for Robert Redford’s 1980 Academy Award–winning directorial debut starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, and 20-year-old Timothy Hutton as the tragedy-struck suburban family. (Fun fact: Hutton remains the youngest-ever recipient of the Academy Award for best supporting actor, which he won for his portrayal of the anguished son, Conrad.) But the film was adapted from a book that had come out four years prior, an instant best-seller that made first-time novelist Judith Guest—a Midwestern schoolteacher and mother of three—a household name. Guest’s book inserted mental health and therapy (Judd Hirsch’s bedraggled Dr. Berger certainly inspired Robin Williams’s performance in Good Will Hunting) into the literary mainstream, so it’s fitting that psychotherapist Amy Bloom writes the foreword to Penguin Classic’s 50th-anniversary edition. ($18, penguinrandomhouse.com) —Paulina Prosnitz