Gravity
While special effects minus monsters are a joy to behold, "Gravity" lacks gravitas.
命運
Just what mìngyùn, or fate, lies China's future, no Westerner can pinpoint.
Ghosts With Shit Jobs
Turning the outsourcing paradigm upside down makes for subversive science fiction.
Nathalie Grenon
Nathalie Grenon and Piero Sartogo have helped change the "look" of Rome's faith.
Fall’s funghi
A bumper crop has slashed prices on Italy's most delicious commodity: truffles.
Nonno
There's no proof anyone serves lasagna in the afterlife, but if so, it'll be toweringly good.
The Heart of a Dog
In 1925, Mikhail Bulgakov riffed off a botched operation to slice into communism.
Call me Julianne
Walking Sweden's rugged King's Trail can bring out the soul's inner Melville.
Messing with time
Rachel Joyce's "Perfect," set in the 1970s, takes two tiny seconds for a troubling ride.
Ordinary and safe
Sometimes true love can "err" on the quieter side of all things spectacular.
Lotus-eaters
Read all about it — Italy, that is — but Luigi Barzini, Jr.'s 1964 vision still reigns supreme.