In Italy, a popular fruit can get a gay man into quick and tart linguistic trouble.
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Forks in a row
Our food writer picks her top choices in Rome's many food categories.
France
With Sarkozy, it's Gaullism through the looking glass, but deftly.
I can hear music
Buskers and summer go together, but the pickings are getting slimmer.
2012
Camp rules Roland Emmerich's end-world, but here's the sad news: It's not funny.
Twin-edged blade
Despite the hype, travel abroad can occasionally tell you how wrong you were.
Lo yum
A Rome food critics pulls out the stops and damns all waistlines.
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
Nobel-winner V.S. Naipaul, master of "suppressed history," takes his vivid subversion to Africa.
Satanic verses
When commemorating 9/11 is its own reward, something is wrong with the picture.
Wordmonger
Paul Harding's brilliant "Tinkers" does just that to a universe of his own making.
In your dreams
When it comes to getting your child to sleep, parental power can be bloody murder.
Collio fever
The rugged Collio is home to a group of tough men (and women) who know their wines.