On Halloween, Piccola Cucina Osteria Siciliana in SoHo served one last dinner in the little house that it built on Spring Street during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. Lila Barth for The New York Times The next morning, the owner, Philip Guardione, took everything he could save from the structure: 11 tables, chairs, live palms and ZZ plants, …
On The Shelf Four Summer Thriller Debuts The Other Black Girl By Zakiya Dalila Harris Simon and Shuster: 355 pages, $27 Arsenic and Adobo By Mia P. Manansala Berkeley: 336 pages, $16 Walking Through Needles By Heather Levy Polis: 320 pages, $26 People Like Them By Samira Sedira Translated by Lara Vergnaud Penguin: 192 pages, $17 If you buy books …
The Story of the Lost Child One of the biggest global best-sellers of the last couple of years, the final work in Italian writer Elena Ferrante's Naples quartet recently saw its Chinese translation released. As the title suggests, the book promises a heartrending read as the two leading female characters Lila and Lenu-or Raffaella Cerullo and Elena Greco-enter the third …