Suzanne MacNeille

Notable offerings at K60 Japanese Steak House, which has a lively hibachi room and a quiet sushi bar, include steak teriyaki and an arrangement of sliced white tuna.

Go on a restaurant crawl through downtown, starting with a new spot that’s spiced with intriguingly weird ideas and ending with a classic place where formality is leavened by a lighthearted spirit.

Follow a photographer to Mexico and Hunter S. Thompson to South America, then head to Brazil for culture and the Galápagos for nature in this survey of four recent books.

From the hardscrabble South to cemeteries in Japan, books on places both distant and close to home from Patti Smith, Truman Capote, Paul Theroux and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Come fall, when the crowds and cars and high-season glamour fade, turkeys, like so many other things in the Hamptons, come into their own.

In the fall, off-season Hamptons is a quieter place, teeming with very noticeable wildlife. Here are just a few places you might want to check out.

There’s more to this maritime city than great food: gracious parks, Victorian architecture and a thriving arts scene.

With its urban forests, glassy downtown and undulating coastline, it’s easy to be infatuated with this city in British Columbia.

Revered in British Columbia, little known in the U.S., the artist Emily Carr, born in Victoria in 1871, may be from another era, but amid environmental concerns, her words and images resonate.

One is an opulent palazzo, the other a combination hostel and budget hotel. One has 18 rooms and suites, the other nearly 1,000 beds. Which would you choose for a night in Venice?