Some bitter words lead Veronika Nomad to want to usher in 2022 not with similar bitterness but a love story, her own.
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Home sweet homes
A few mornings ago, just before I awoke from a dream, I told myself this: No one wants to move [...]
Cave-car Rome
A cardiologist is interrupted mid-visit with a patient by an incoming call she says she must take. The electrocardiogram is [...]
Recipes for redemption
On my desk is a treasure, my mama’s Recipe Box, earning capital letters because it is priceless. No doubt there [...]
The frosting first manifesto
To: Eat the Cake First and Save the Frosting, the Best, for Last, to the attention of the party chairperson [...]
Tannenbaum for the migrant
Living in a time and place in which religious faith is unfashionable, France-based columnist Will Robinson decides to believe anyway.
Film: “Pig”
A genuinely sublime film is like discovering a true truffle, deep in the forest. Unfortunately, “Pig” is more of a [...]
American Alfie
Columnist Madeleine Johnson, pestered by Italians over how she spends her days in America, responds in non-Hollywood style.
Cracks in the half-full glass
Italy’s glass-half-full status in managing the COVID assault is beginning to spring notable leaks. And unlike Britain, the country has [...]
My daughter the eco-warrior
Rebecca, the exceptional daughter of columnist Joel Stein, learns that plastic is a great peril to birds, and so becomes the next great child eco-warrior.
An Apulian love story
One late spring day in 1940, a day on which the southern Italian sun was already pounding down, Rocco came [...]
Come back, Good Humor Man
Strange times indeed when virus hysteria makes fear fashionable and leads moderns to forget how lucky they really are, argues John Freidlander.