April 2017 - The American Mag

Embers

While there are many Italian peculiarities I've grown accustomed to — moody public transport, lack of peanut butter, and disdain [...]

Israeli novelist David Grossman uses the act of a stand-up comedian to get to the heart of Jewish doubt.

A friend's decision to change her given name brings the past front and center.

A translator's job can be enormously rewarding (and hard), but lack of representation undermined fair compensation.

When it comes to extremes of narcissism, all it takes is one sick bird to drive the flock.

For gay couples in a marriage, one man is forced into the role of "wife," at least in Italy.

When you stand a chance of becoming an Italian first lady, everyone has advice.

In her latest novel, Rachel Cusk can't enough of playing disappointment's biographer.

In the United States and Europe, elections held and elections to come are ensuring the global political balance remains in flux.

Amid unexpected wonder of nature — California wildflowers — it helps to use your eyes.

Mulling over a return to poetry takes you back in time, some of it informed by Rome.