A count's hotel-residence in Tuscany strives to take visitors into Italy's rustic past.
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The night bus
When John Turturro isn't around, Rome's early hours can lose their mind.
The International
Despite Owen and Watts, German Tom Tykwer's anti-banking screed falls flat.
Not heard
For ever-child Michael Jackson, maturity was always a rumor.
Mediterraneo
Gabriele Salvatores goes soft on war — on a Greek island.
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Dinaw Menestu's first novel beautifully understates the obviousness of human complication.
Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained
August Kleinzhaler revels in the luminous mess that is America.
Moth Smoke
Mohsin Hamid's debut novel is a darkly funny look at late 90s urban Pakistan.
Jam Tarts
Elizabeth Evans: "Marcie tried to heat herself up, become a golden lamp, project golden beams of goodness..."
Mio fratello è figlio unico (My brother is an only child)
Daniele Luchetti examines two brothers coming of age in 1960s and 70s Rome.
Don of the fishes
In 1978, a young fish-lover got a taste of Calabrian adulthood.
Troppo buono!
When the two Christs and their Ritz crackers come calling, wouldn't you know it was Mom's idea.