When tourism goes mad
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. • Confucius Last year, Conde [...]
The research game, alla Italiana
Throughout 1980, when my Rome medical practice was just getting under way, money barely trickled in — those were the [...]
Pity the rhetorical question
Dear readers: I’m a rhetorical question, and I’ve hit upon a bit of a crisis. Why do I exist? If [...]
Book review ‘Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life ‘
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]bigail Thomas's book is like comfort food. Through her spare, elegant prose — at once poetic and conversational — she [...]
L’americana’s time to yearn
Columnist Kristine Crane got her moniker when she fist moved to Rome. Now, deep into the Trump era, recollections have turned into wistfulness.
The humbled guide
As sure as April showers bring May flowers, spend enough time traveling in Europe and someone’s going to pick your [...]
A tale of different deaths
I was sitting on the red couch in the side room we call the den, when my mother came in [...]
Embodying a dream
How I came to be a London escort is much ado about a farm. Not a comfortably conventional opening gambit [...]
For love of craft
Film critic Max Oxley sees Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" as yet another demonstration of the aging director's devotion to character-rich storytelling.
And the abyss deepens
Things are bleak in Afghanistan these days, bleaker perhaps than they have been in quite some time. Given the relentlessly [...]
The local mind
Early into what would become a lengthy Rome sojourn I asked a man standing alone at a bus stop for [...]