New York
The Restaurant Life
Salad Days As Union Square Cafe celebrates its 40th anniversary, owner Danny Meyer recalls its nail-biting opening phase
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It’s a Very Merry Morning Meeting James Wolcott joins the podcast this week to discuss the pleasures of the solo Christmas
The Imperfect Ending
Dan White The debonair conjuror and star of The Magician chooses a few of his least favorite things
Best
Barbour x Paul Smith
Food and Wine
Super Mario From New York to Hong Kong, Mario Carbone’s restaurants are multiplying. It’s still impossible to get a booth
Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss an homage to Siena’s artistic golden age, a new collection of Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels, and a charming exploration of why we gossip
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A Study in Scarlett Learn the source of Scarlett Johansson’s dirty mind, how she ended up marrying someone from the outer boroughs, and much more, in our new podcast, Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi
Publishing
Harper Lee, Lost and Found Eight short stories by the To Kill a Mockingbird author, discovered after her death in 2016, are being published for the first time
Open Book
Rodney Everlasting With the magic of Wes Anderson, the imagination of René Magritte, and the mystery of Alfred Hitchcock, Rodney Smith’s photographs—collected in a new coffee-table book—create a fantastical world untouched by time
