Understanding cod — a mission of salty love and fishy understanding.
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New York ice
In Brooklyn and Manhattan, tasty soupçons of the mezzogiorno.
Casanova
A "stylish and sexy comedy for grownups" ... Yawn.
Million Dollar Baby
Has its moments, sure, but boxes itself into a maudlin corner.
Baccalà Assailed
The beast — still in its vacuum wrapping — sprang back, smelling like the family dog.
Wedding planner
"My Big Fat Calabrian Wedding" doesn't look so appealing close up
Speed bump
My husband is Neapolitan. He has been biologically programmed to drive like a maniac.
Match@Italy.com
My curiosity was piqued by “Bruno” — actually, it was the brown eyes that did it.
Thomas Barrack Jr.
"Environmentalists are my allies because they’re right… if you don’t blend a consensus vision you have a real problem."
Bel Canto
Opera and terrorism snuggle comfortably in Patchett's impossible but lovely somewhere-in-South America story.
My Name is Red
Nobel novelist Orhan Pamuk uses 20 narrators to offer up a layered, personal history of Istanbul.
Beast of No Nation
Uzodinma Iweala gets into the head of an African child soldier and keeps himself there to relentless effect.