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Many acts of generosity have propelled me in my career, but few as big as when Malcolm Jones, the longtime Newsweek feature writer, took me under his wing years ago to work on The Daily Beast’s book section. Now, his generosity continues by deigning to write a travel piece now and again for the section. He turns hotel reviews into prose and is great at resurfacing overlooked Americana. His author page should keep you busy for a while. I still am working my way through his best summer reads of all time.

So it is with great joy on my part that the second It’s Still a Big World (our twice-monthly feature on underrated destination) for June was by Malcolm. The subject? Memphis, Tennessee. He opens in classic Malcolm fashion with a reference to a song called “Memphis Women and Chicken” and while I don’t want to say too much, let’s just say fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches make an appearance.

— William O’Connor, Travel Editor

“The devices used for their torture, which include spike-lined closable sarcophagus cages and stretching frames, are located in the nearby medieval torture museum of San Gimignano.”

— Rome correspondent Barbie Latza Nadeau on the Italian hill towns with a macabre past involving witches.

Down the white rock road and through the whimsical salmon wall—protected by the oh-so-secret password “margaritas!” of course—you will find a magical chateau ready to set an outrageous standard for all your vacations to come. For $430 a night, you and your seven closest friends can spend your days surfing and swimming and sunning on the Riviera Nayarit, which is no less fabulous for being self-named, and your evenings ensconced in a world of bright colors and sumptuous accommodations.

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The nodpod Weighted Sleep Mask Is The One Thing That Helps Me Get a Good Night’s Sleep

Using polyethylene beads, nodpod molds to the contours of your face, creating a custom, light-blocking effect that’s much more effective than the dozens of eye masks I’ve tried over the years. No one product has done more to help me fall asleep and stay asleep than the nodpod, so much so that I now always travel with it wherever I go.

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Since starting Just Booked, our series on gorgeous travel-related coffee table books, we've featured a number of tomes with covers that have made passersby dawdle.

But we've never seen a book cause everybody who passed to stop in their tracks and caress it in the way they have with Phaidon's new book, Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century.

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