My father, tis of thee
I made an interesting discovery a few weeks ago while searching for photos of my father to share on Facebook [...]
The great bidet mystery
Author Henry Miller associated it with women and sex, but the purpose of a bidet remains a secret as guarded as nuclear fission, writes columnist Susan Levenstein.
Memories of mouse toast
Once upon a time, as a young American in Rome, columnist Kristine Crane stood out from her housemates in more ways than one.
The kettle to Provence
Funny how everyday household items can become totemic, suddenly taking on new meaning well beyond their original utilitarian design. So it [...]
The Martian Jew
A couple of months ago I found myself at a Passover table in Los Angeles feeling entirely out of place. [...]
Don’t you dare
Pet peeves are personal by nature. They make waves at a gut level. Restaurant peeves develop over time and usually [...]
Bad times get worse
There is reason to believe that 2018's “Bad Times” could have been a very good film. The contained, isolated setting [...]
The roots of the matter
Uno tira l’altro, or “One pulls another.” While this Italian expression may sound like an Iron Curtain slogan —“One pulls [...]
A Bard’s Games
There's a telling moment in the fourth season of the recently concluded HBO medieval fantasy series "Game of Thrones" in [...]
Going native
I have lived in Italy for more than a decade, which seems like an incredibly long time to someone who [...]
Bob Wilson’s Life and Death of Marina Abramovic
In “Bob Wilson’s Life and Death of Marina Abramovic,” one of the world’s leading performance artists — the Belgrade-Born Abramovic [...]