
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.

Multinational Keats
The Keats-Shelley Memorial House is currently celebrating a six-year centenary that began in 2003.

Viaggio Segreto
If dad didn't do it, who did? And why are Leo and Ale making eyes at each other?

A moveable feast
The verbal cataloging of one's meal is part of the pleasure of eating in Italy.

Pet travel blues
Columnist Erica Firpo says that taking your pet on a trip depends on its passport. Getting one is the hard part.

Equinox
Matthew Lebowitz: "When Michael is doing his best to forget about Clara, he will decide finally that she looked more like an extraterrestrial..."