Warren 77
Officially, this new spot is a sports bar, but if you want to catch the Jets game, you’d be better off at Mudville 9, a few blocks away, where, no matter what seat you have, there’s a clear view of the...
View ArticleThe Lieutenant
Grenville’s novel, based on the true story of William Dawes, who was among the soldiers accompanying the first prisoners sent to Australia, concerns Daniel Rooke, a lonely, introverted sort whose skill...
View ArticleJuliet, Naked
Hornby’s books are almost shamefully readable. They can suffer from simplistic premises and too many corny jokes, but his characters are always richly, sympathetically drawn. In this novel of aging,...
View ArticleCivetta
Ron Suhanosky, the chef at this new Italian spot in Nolita, also helms two other restaurants, both named Sfoglia (after the term for an uncut sheet of pasta)—the original, on Nantucket, and a popular...
View ArticleQuinto Quarto
At Quinto Quarto, everything is taken as a sign of authenticity. There are tables full of Italian speakers; the manager sends off regular customers with a kiss on the cheek and “Buona sera!” If the...
View ArticleThe Lacuna
In Kingsolver’s capacious historical novel, Harrison Shepherd, the son of a Mexican flirt and a stolid American bureaucrat, has a remarkable life: cook for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, secretary to...
View ArticleThe Vanderbilt
The name of this new Prospect Heights restaurant implies synonymy with its neighborhood, which, when you are opening up not far from several well-established joints, could easily misfire. Luckily, the...
View ArticleThe Hidden
The metaphorical resonances of an archeological dig are put to fine use in this tense novel. Ben Mercer has fled his failed marriage and his studies at Oxford, and a chance encounter brings him to an...
View ArticleJoseph Leonard
This new restaurant takes the pose of a shabby-chic apartment: it’s furnished with distressed bookshelves stocked with weathered volumes, a vintage typewriter, a blue seltzer bottle, and beat-up...
View ArticleThen Came the Evening
When Bandy Dorner returns to Lake Fork, Idaho, after eighteen years behind bars, he finds the former mill town transformed into a vacation retreat for affluent outsiders: “He wondered where these new...
View ArticleThe Swan Thieves
Kostova’s second novel, following her vampire-hunting début, “The Historian,” attempts to imbue the sedate world of art with a similar aura of time-spanning suspense. After Robert Oliver, a well-known...
View ArticlePiccola Cucina
This new Italian restaurant in SoHo lives up to its name, and, with only a handful of tables and just two waiters taking orders and tending bar, things get cozy quickly. On a recent evening, the...
View ArticleThe Ticking Is the Bomb
Flynn’s memoir, his second after “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City,” covers impending fatherhood, his mother’s suicide, revelations of torture, and his father’s alcoholism and dementia. The...
View ArticleThe Breslin
After the Spotted Pig débuted, in the West Village, with its crowded bar scene, ambitious menu, and coveted burger, a fever for its formula seemed to infect restaurateurs. Every neighborhood suddenly...
View ArticleThe Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
Charyn’s novel breezily chronicles the chaotic emotional life of Emily Dickinson. Unfazed by the challenging lack of event in his subject’s biography, Charyn recasts her life, from the early years in...
View ArticleFebruary
Drawing on a nonfictional disaster in which an oil rig off Newfoundland capsized, killing eighty-four men, Moore’s novel captures the consequences of grief in one family. Helen discovers that she is...
View ArticleColicchio & Sons
Tom Colicchio closed his Craftsteak flagship in New York earlier this fall and vowed to make its revamp personal: he’d be there, behind the stove, doing what he loves to do. The other night, a waiter...
View ArticleA Week in December
Set in London during one week in December, 2007, this panoramic satire of modern urban life follows a hedge-fund director who is about to set off an implosion of the global banking system for his own...
View ArticleRoman’s
This new spot, from the mini-moguls behind the Brooklyn restaurants Marlow & Sons, Diner, and Bonita (a branch of which formerly occupied this space), has a first-New-York-apartment affect:...
View ArticleVillage Tart
This new restaurant may have the name of a strumpet, but it has the mien of a prim maiden aunt, with its marble-topped tables, dusky pink seats, cut-glass lustres, and ornately framed mirrors. In a...
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