In Mike Nichols' classic, a bored housewife does it with a younger Benjamin and ends up losing her religion.
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Any Human Face
Charles Lambert's new novel puts a modest man on a collision course with Italy's dark side.
Che riccccoo!
Be careful when you get a "military" man to run your Rome workouts.
Varie ed imprevisiti
The maxi-posters in Rome's historic center speak for a cash-hungry city that exists outside time.
Tripe artists
Trippa alla Romana hails from "garbage"-days Testaccio and poor man's Rome.
SPTCRMA
Ethan Joella: "Songs should not hurt; puddles should not break me."
The Birds
Hitch turns birds into the menacing, lethal agents of blonde ambition gone wrong.
The corrections
Fiction about Italy owes the country accuracy and the chance to be itself.
American potty
Not even wartime in Bosnia can prepare you for Italian bathroom tumult.
The third place
The American Dream is gradually losing a spoke: a sense of community.
Wearing red
Online meetings can be haphazard, but some chances are worth taking.
The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman's balleyhooed novel about an English-language paper in Rome is true to its title.