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FICTION: Suzanne Dottino’s “Ice-Land”
A pollo says, “Red and green baby, you have to use red and green gumdrops. It’s Christmas!” I look down at the double row [...]
Not a Caravaggio-like summer
Almost every year, toward the end of summer, I have sauntered out into whatever garden I had at the time (there have been many) [...]
A tell-tale sojourn in “The Big Smoke”
This summer — August 1 to be precise —marked the 200th birthday of one of the most influential literary figures of modern times: Herman [...]
The making of the unreasonable actor
I come from a reasonable family. Until recently, this would have been the kind of comforting remark I could say in passing to just [...]
Expressions are served
When I was five and a half and had just arrived in the United States, I was one [...]
Linklater heads south
Imagine this: You're a little hungry, so you step into a small Italian trattoria for a meal. You [...]
Where winter is here
I’m on an extended vacation back home in Australia, and I’m feeling my age. Not my literal age [...]
When Capricorn equals Naples
What often struck me when I lived in Italy was the way people identified themselves as from Tuscany, [...]
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Getting dirty and educated
When it comes to true rigors of farm life, the Italian agriturismo is pure fiction. Maybe a compromise would better serve both sides, writes Nora Hartmann.
Not a Caravaggio-like summer
Almost every year, toward the end of summer, I have sauntered out into whatever garden I had at the time [...]
Review: ‘The Load’
It is 1999. Serbian troops that have invaded Kosovo at President Slobodan Milošević's behest are under bombardment by NATO aircraft. [...]
A very rich man
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. [...]
A tell-tale sojourn in “The Big Smoke”
This summer — August 1 to be precise —marked the 200th birthday of one of the most influential literary figures [...]
Linklater heads south
Imagine this: You're a little hungry, so you step into a small Italian trattoria for a meal. You have modest [...]
A guy, a girl, and their AI buddy
Ian McEwan’s darkly whimsical 15th novel is “Machines Like Me” (Jonathan Cape, 2019), a speculation on Artificial Intelligence that overflows [...]
The trap door called drawing
Human beings are rarely the neat sum of neat parts, something columnist Elaine Luti began to understand when she first learned to draw.
Where winter is here
I’m on an extended vacation back home in Australia, and I’m feeling my age. Not my literal age but my [...]