Gustavo Dudamel, conductor and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, checks himself in a mirror before a performance at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Feb. 9, 2023. Dudamel, 42, the rare maestro whose fame transcends classical music, finds himself at a crossroads: not only planning to move to a new orchestra, but also into a new phase of his career. PHILIP CHEUNG/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Asale Angel-Ajani’s debut novel is “A Country You Can Leave.”(Courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The elaborate ice carvings of the Hotel de Glace extend to rooms like this one, with its Jules Verne theme and arctic-strength sleeping bag.