Another Day of Life
Waiting out the 1975 Angolan civil war is, for Kapuscinksi, an excuse for some stunningly beautiful character studies.
Samuel Johnson is Indignant
Davis successfully flirts with the outer fringes of prose limits in this wildly creative collection of stories.
Casablanca
A wife says: "I came the office but you were not there, so I took a walk, alone…"
Spaculation
"Sinically depressed" are the hardest to understand when you're not one.
Leopardi clean
With your Rome roommate, there's clean and then there's Leopardi clean.
Comedy Central
Offer pork chops to a whirlwind and you get… a whirlwind.
Foreign policy
Every time we go away, we face the same battle over whether or not to take out insurance coverage.
Meet the parents
The first big meeting can elicit all sorts of similarities, and differences.
Don’t Ask
"You have a complex fistula. We have to operate. You will be able to live a normal life." Time to call the parents.
Non-Babe Shopping
The big ally in wardrobe strategy are small neighborhood shops with savvy owners and buyers.
Travel blues
Knowing I was leaving Italy in two weeks, I began the Sisyphean task of getting Bella her "documents."