Every summer I find myself coming back to Simrane—the family-run Paris boutique known for its vivid, block-printed textiles, sourced from Jaipur, Ahmedabad, and Mumbai. Their colorful offerings include jackets, weekender bags, caftans, and ready-to-wear. But I love their tablecloths best, which get me many compliments while hosting sunny alfresco lunches. Did I mention most are on sale now? I love the Mysore Bleu and the Berry Jalli Pink, but my absolute favorite print is the Guirlande Lavande. Bon appétit! (from $102, simrane.com) —Rachel Lesage

A foundational work of Italian post-neo-realism, L’Avventura is an arresting cinematic study of fickle love. It all starts when friends Anna (Lea Massari) and Claudia (Monica Vitti) join Anna’s paramour, Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), along with two other couples on a pleasure cruise to the Aeolian Islands. Between their champagne problems and flirty tomfoolery, Anna disappears, initiating a futile rescue search. Claudia and Sandro refuse to give up hope of finding Anna, but this doesn’t stop them from soon falling in love. Conflicted with guilt over their growing attraction, they scour Southern Italy for their lost best friend and innamorata. Director Michelangelo Antonioni delivers an unresolved ending that hangs like a melancholic fog over this visually stunning, yet disquieting, two-and-a-half-hour classic. (hbomax.com) —Eve Eismann

Live from New York, it’s The Bowery Review—the city’s self-proclaimed “Best and Only Humor Magazine.” Edited by Tim Latterner, the quarterly print publication features fiction, cartoons, jokes, and essays by various writers, artists, and illustrators whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Mad magazine, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. This issue, we especially enjoyed the comic strip “The Horrible Agony of Actually Raising Clifford, the Big Red Dog.” And there’s plenty more where that came from. Find Issue No. 4 gracing the shelves of McNally Jackson Books, Casa Magazines, Iconic Magazines, and Soho News International. Seriously, who said print is dead? (theboweryreview.com) —Gabriella Maestri

Call me pretentious, but I love natural-wine bars. I’m less in love, however, with the petits plats they usually serve—olives, radishes, artichokes—as they always leave me unsatisfied. At Liar Liar, that’s no issue. A little over a year old, the Gowanus bar is the Brooklyn version of a bistrot de quartier on Canal Saint-Martin, where bartenders simultaneously pour chilled reds and spin vinyl. Amid the laundry list of bottles, their menu holds its own: steak frites doused in a sauce-pan-size serving of peppery au poivre, a crispy fried-chicken sandwich, and a generous shrimp cocktail. Expect to brush knees with whoever’s at the rattan stool next to you and make friends. It’s all an ideal way to savor the back half of summer, if you ask me. (instagram.com) —Maggie Turner

The fisherman sandal has had many lives: seaside essential, grandpa staple, unexpected style-set trend, and, now, a must-have. The Calypso is our favorite. It keeps your toes safely away from hot pavement, questionable metro floors, and the occasional mystery puddle, while still looking right at home anywhere from Nantucket to Portofino. Margaux’s signature comfort means you can walk all day (and I mean all day) without sacrificing style. It’s the rare sandal that works equally well with linen pants, a swimsuit, or the outfit you put together at six a.m. before a flight. A vacation shoe, a city shoe, a “Why didn’t I buy this sooner?” shoe. At this price, get two pairs. ($445, margauxny.com) —Jennifer Noyes

There are grifters, and then there is Paul Skalnik, a charismatic con man of the first rank who married nine times, scammed his wives out of their money, preyed upon young girls, and, in a shocking perversion of the criminal-justice system, made up confessions from fellow prisoners that helped prosecutors in Clearwater, Florida, win cases and even place a man on death row. In return, Skalnik gained his freedom. In Catch the Devil, Pamela Colloff reconstructs Skalnik’s decades-long path of destruction in vivid detail, catching up with him in federal prison when his luck had run out. Her true-detective work focuses on dozens of interviews, archival research, and her own determination to see justice done. It is a narrative tour de force and belongs on your shelf next to this season’s other must-read, Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling. ($32, amazon.com) —Jim Kelly