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.
A Lazio primer
Sermoneta, Circeo, Gaeta, Sperlonga — Lazio's jewels are easy to reach from Rome.
Last Night
James Salter's stories are brilliantly composed and shockingly sad.
Hearthing It
Why am I nuts about winter spots in Umbria? It's a short hop from Rome and generally offers high quality at good prices.
In the Miso Soup
Kenji does Tokyo sex tours — until he meets American Frank. Ryu Murakami saves the best for last.
Supersized revolutions
Eating defines a nation’s identity far more than other single activity.