Night-table Reading

Joel Silver (producer): "I rarely read, but I try never to miss Unsolved Mysteries [NBC]."

Claudia Cohen (journalist): The Alienist, by Caleb Carr (Random House). "A detective novel crackling with historical detail as Teddy Roosevelt tracks a serial killer through sumptuously rendered turn-of the-century New York."

Fiamma Ferragamo (designer): Elisabetta II d'lnghilterra, Donna e Regina, by Paolo Filo della Torre (Mondadori). "We're living a very particular moment in our history right now, and comparison with the past is especially important."