THE PROBLEM SOLVER
The former Godfather’s pizza boss died from coronavirus complications after famously refusing to wear a mask at the president’s re-election rally.
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Parallels
The president’s niece, whose tell-all book about her family appears next month, fell in love with the Nobel Prize-winner’s fiction in college. Then things got really interesting.
ARMCHAIR TRAVELER
Walking used to be something you did once you traveled somewhere. Now, it opens up the world outside my front door.
A-WOP-BOM-A-LOO-MOP
Light years ahead of the rest of us, Richard Charles Penniman erased the boundaries between the sexes and blurred the lines between religious ecstasy and rock and roll.
ARMCHAIR TRAVELER
Most travel writers gloss over their misfortune while traveling, but the best parts of Fenton’s iconic book are often when he tells us how things went wrong.
LIKE A FINE WINE
The music on The Band’s second album has always been great, and now thanks to a remix tune-up, it sounds even better.
HERO
The Arkansas author wrote five comic novels that are like nothing else in American literature, and they will last as long as people read books.
EAT IT UP
The sprawling Barnsley Resort in Georgia has an exceptional culinary reputation—and one hell of a family history.
WE’RE MAKING A LIST
From major awards to stocking stuffers, we’ve got lots of suggestions for the bookworm, the art lover, the baker, and every other reader on your list.
ROOM KEY
Were you to walk by the hotel, you’d be forgiven for not recognizing that it only opened earlier this year.
