July 2020 - The American Mag

Forwarding the past

By Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor| 2020-08-03T11:18:42+02:00 July 30th, 2020|"Notebook"|

Last tine around I wrote about the pain of performing triage on a lifetime of possessions and my fear that [...]

By Katrina Kent| 2020-07-30T21:28:41+02:00 July 30th, 2020|Katrina's Dreams|

On the platform I use to attract virtual clients there's a woman who makes a pretty penny pretending she's a [...]

By Jeff Schweers| 2020-07-27T22:22:54+02:00 July 27th, 2020|Let's Get Lost|

The tiny principality of Andorra inadvertently wound up in the news over a recent controversy stirred up by President Donald [...]

By Kristine Crane, Associate Editor| 2020-08-11T15:52:12+02:00 July 27th, 2020|Recent Reviews|

I resisted reading this book when it was first released to much fanfare in 2016. The idea of an established [...]

By Elaine Luti| 2020-07-30T13:07:50+02:00 July 25th, 2020|"Psych Dept."|

A lot of people, many of them otherwise solid and reasonable thinkers, have seized on the coronavirus to suddenly come [...]

By Will Keppler Robinson| 2020-07-23T12:02:52+02:00 July 23rd, 2020|Robinson's Way|

For as long as I can remember, the Thursday morning farmer's market has been a weekly institution, a hive that [...]

By Kristine Crane, Associate Editor| 2020-07-26T03:34:35+02:00 July 23rd, 2020|L'Americana|

Last week, I took my two-year-old daughter Julia to her first dental appointment. We’ve been brushing her teeth now for [...]

By Aldo Magagnino| 2020-07-23T12:00:44+02:00 July 19th, 2020|Apulian Days|

July was the month. I used to wait for it, yearn for it, dream and daydream of it. July was [...]

By Shaula Villadoniga| 2020-07-19T12:33:02+02:00 July 19th, 2020|Anthropos|

With all the turmoil besetting the virus-stricken planet during a year in which it was forced to reckon with vulnerability [...]

By Anish Goel| 2020-07-19T12:34:32+02:00 July 16th, 2020|Asia Unlimited|

What do the snowy peaks of the Himalayas have in common with the balmy waters of the South China Sea? [...]

By Suzanne Dunaway| 2020-07-16T12:12:57+02:00 July 16th, 2020|"Suzanne's Taste"|

So where do we go from here? And where is "here" anyway? Are you stuck in a country you cannot [...]