11 of Our Best Weekend Reads

11 of Our Best Weekend Reads

Saving Notre-Dame. John Paul Stevens dies. 16,000 Readers on “go back.” 16 black chefs changing food in the U.S. Generation Spice Girls. And more.

Moscow’s Metropol: Elegance to Revolution and Back Again

In 1991, as the Soviet Union collapsed around him, Alexander Mishakov was summoned to a place that was off-limits to most citizens — the Metropol Hotel.