Arguing with testosterone
My testosterone is in a funk. Gnome-like, it trolls through stories of extravagantly untoward male behavior and wants to know [...]
Games nations play
The North Korea negotiation show is back on the road, with the latest developments in the Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un saga [...]
Thoughts on the red red cape
Columnist Madeleine Johnson had a father who warned her about the perils of male aggression, and those warnings endure.
A chilling kind of convenience
Novelist Sakaya Murato's "Convenience Store Woman" (Portobello Books, 2018), a huge Japanese hit only recently translated into English, has quickly [...]
Italian 101 (or, In the beginning)
I’m teaching Italian at the University of Florida this fall. The course is called Beginning Italian II, which was my [...]
Xanax in love
She said I should forget it. All of it. Everything she'd just said. I didn't know where to start forgetting. [...]
Too few rooms
When it came to men, my late mother was always quick with this axiom: “Just remember that they can’t be [...]
Hereditary
Annie's aging and demented mother has just died, in some respects not a moment too soon since mother and daughter [...]
Other people’s messes
Can you live with other people's messes? It's a question I've pondered with my husband, usually after being at the [...]
The Linden Tree
This pensive little memoir by the Argentine fantasist César Aria deals with remembrance as a child might handle a hamster, [...]