Innkeepers of the world, unite!
At last, you said to yourself. At last you found a bit of time on your hands so you pounced [...]
A piece of colored fabric
Why, my new friend Paige asked, were American flags hanging out and about in abundance on a quiet summer day? [...]
Philanthropy by any other name
In April, Rome cheered the opening of a new museum of 20th- and 21st-century Italian art. According to the Italian [...]
The secret life of nonnas (or, Jesus’ lost arm)
It’s 11 a.m. on a Thursday and I’m pushing the tiny purples sills on my bingo card back up for [...]
T-Rex in your bed
Pets are a relationship mainstay, right? What's a love affair without a dog or a cat? I'd taken pets for [...]
Swallows and the sea
High summer is a good time to relax into something different. Here is a page from a journal I keep [...]
On Viale dei Ricordi
My earliest childhood memories are sensory. Restaurant meals played a big part in their shaping. For social and financial reasons, [...]
Kudos for Cusk
Rachel Cusk’s recent “Kudos” closes a brilliant trilogy of novels —beginning with 2014’s “Outline”— that was dubbed “Faye” by some, [...]
Hospital histrionics
Fraud is a global sport, but in Italy, land of Verdi and Puccini, melodrama can intercede to embellish it. Some years [...]
