Angela Montgomery's novel of Milan in the 1990s is an indelible Italian portrait.
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Borrowed time
North African leaders are discovering that old-school nationalism no longer works.
The Social Network
The strength of David Fincher's Facebook movie is how it "gets" elitism.
Vinum + mustum
Making your own vinegar can mean browsing antique stores and spices.
Shrines
Rome's smaller food stores work to parry the supermarket onslaught.
Sheffield, burning
Sunjeev Sahota's debut novel delves skillfully into homegrown British terrorism.
Blood Meridian
Nearly three decades later, the American Iliad still rises up and oozes.
Somewhere
Sophia Coppola uses Coppola's sleeping pill style to get at the contours of celebrity.
Marta’s fear
A first trip to New York City triggers sudden worries for a Sicilian.
Caffésito
Both home, Rome, and home-away-from-home, Miami, come with pros and cons.
The Fall
Tarsem's self-indulgent adventure is the best and most gorgeous of failures.
The rhino
Shrewd and thick-skinned, Silvio Berlusconi continues laughing at embarrassment.