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Violet’s letter
A hiking boot tramples a violet, apologizes, and then has the naivete to think that is an end of the matter, but the violet [...]
Many changes
Let me turn the clock back four months, to a midwinter day in January. It’s a snowy morning in New York. Actually, it’s not [...]
The last blacksmith
Over the last 20 years, I have been living in Presicce, a village in Salento (in the far south of Apulia), whose old town [...]
FICTION: “I found out”
I managed to return to my apartment just as curfew was beginning. The alarms produce such a dreadful sound — but what else can [...]
Film: “Bacurau”
The fictional town of Bacurau, Brazil is not found on any map. It's appropriately named because the Portuguese word bacaru means nightjar, a bird [...]
Behind the tell-tale phases
Of the many memorable images to have emerged from American involvement in World War II, a handful stand out in […]
Virus woes or a warning?
China’s total lockdown, ostensibly to control the spread of the Omicron variant, seems at times to be aimed at making a far more important global point.
The Day of the Puma
Some forty May moons ago, when balding Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi held monied sway over suddenly booming Italy and his foreign minister paused [...]
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Keeping it simple
By now I am sure you know that frou-frou cooking, as I call it, is not my gig. I went [...]
Film: “Bacurau”
The fictional town of Bacurau, Brazil is not found on any map. It's appropriately named because the Portuguese word bacaru [...]
Behind the tell-tale phases
Of the many memorable images to have emerged from American involvement in World War II, a handful stand out in […]
Virus woes or a warning?
China’s total lockdown, ostensibly to control the spread of the Omicron variant, seems at times to be aimed at making a far more important global point.
The Day of the Puma
Some forty May moons ago, when balding Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi held monied sway over suddenly booming Italy and [...]
Friend of the dead
Contributo Corinna Amendola joins a friend on a compassionate road trip into the American southlands and gets mfar more than she bargained for.
Language of life
Like many people, I started riding a Peloton exercise bicycle during the pandemic. I’m not a huge fan of indoor [...]
Day of fears overcome
America is obsessed with “National __ Day” celebrations. When I first heard of one, National Ice Cream Day, I thought, [...]
Finding hidden shapes
The lights are regulated correctly, there is a perfect distance between my bass and the amp, between my mouth and [...]