Scenes like this from Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus" (1966) sit uneasily beside the idealized Rome so often invoked as a civilizational model—a tension at the heart of Curtis Dozier’s "The White Pedestal."
A debut novel set in a Hudson Valley town caught between nostalgia and reinvention, "Town & Country" traces the emotional lives of locals and newcomers learning to live side by side.
