Archive

January 2025

• Joy of learning 22:

December 2023

• Key under the pumpkin 31:
• “I want to die” 31:
• Viareggio remembered 30:
• A flea eviction 28:
• 27. Father Knows Best: Walter Lord 25:
• Fragments of good things 21:
• Because you can 21:
• Keeping it real 20:
• 26. Father Knows Best: The “Californian” in the Dark 13:
• Beagles in the stars 13:
• On Kissinger 07:
• Pakistan: the low road on terrorism 06:
• 25. Father Knows Best: Home and General 02:

November 2023

• Misunderstanding General Giáp 28:
• How deep is the wound? 28:
• Barbie: beginning to become 26:
• The kidnapped bucket 23:
• Pet tales 22:
• 24. Father Knows Best: Marcia 22:
• Vengeance unleashed 15:
• 23. Father Knows Best: Misunderstandings 13:
• Divorce or un-divorce? 13:
• 22. Female Trouble: Samantha the Wise 09:
• The taste of mustard 06:
• 21. Female Trouble: A Post-mother life 02:
• The lunatic 02:
• Fall snapshots 02:

October 2023

• Of lines and bylines 30:
• Belovid Dad 24:
• The basement war 22:
• The vegan days 18:
• The perfume of roses 11:
• A shell game 09:
• Tutu’s fluke 05:

September 2023

• The great Great Falls mystery 28:
• Film: “It Ain’t Over” 26:
• How many more? 26:
• 20. Female Trouble: Things Fall Apart 22:
• Try this at home 18:
• Humoring depression 12:
• 19. Spain: The End of the Affair 12:
• My tender bar 07:
• The Order of Malta Clinic 07:
• How to botch a mango 04:

August 2023

• Benchmark 31:
• One man’s “ferragosto” 18:
• 18. Spain: General Ohio 17:
• Almond’s conquest 17:
• Amedeo Ciaccheri 14:
• Brave new verbs 11:
• Love in the Isle of Capri 09:
• Books: “Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome” (revisited) 02:
• 17. Spain: A word on bikinis 02:
• Tiger and snake 01:

July 2023

• In the heat of the moment 26:
• Dad’s heroes 24:
• How I finally learned to stop worrying and love the prom 23:
• 16. Spain: Telefonica 23:
• In real life 17:
• Life or death? 16:
• 15. Spain: O Rey 06:
• Heaven in the heavens 06:
• Life with cats (and dogs) 01:

June 2023

• Asunder 27:
• Summer in the city 25:
• Spark plugs 22:
• 14. Spain: Fallen Salt 22:
• Film Review: Triangle of Sadness 18:
• Days of aqua pazza 17:
• Resurrecting denial 08:
• 13. Spain: Batido boy 08:

May 2023

• The joys of southern bureaucracy 21:
• 12. Spain: To catch Entonces 15:
• Roma revisited 13:
• Forbidden Notebook 13:
• The power of sound 10:
• Soundscapes in Garbatella 07:
• 11. Spain: Matalo! 04:

April 2023

• Disaster zone 30:
• Business as usual 29:
• Once upon a footpath 26:
• Buon appetito 25:
• 10. Spain: Noble Notsies 23:
• Death experience 19:
• Seeking ruins and rebirth 12:
• 9. Spain: Rules by the mostest 06:
• The New Mrs. Malaprop 06:

March 2023

• Twilight of an astronaut 29:
• Time for the next wave in cinema 25:
• 8. Travel to Spain: French Pirates in Libya 24:
• A “gentleman” undone 18:
• Street voices of yesteryear 13:
• 7. Travel to Spain: Jolly Good! 12:
• Thoughts on ethical culture 08:
• Springing forward 06:
• 6. Memories of Truancy: Firebug 04:
• Grammar life lessons 03:

February 2023

• Persistence before aptitude 24:
• February sun 15:
• 5. Memories of Truancy: Tom Sawyer 15:
• 4. Memories of Truancy: Tree Lord 15:
• Two Battles of the Bulge 06:
• 3. Memories of Truancy: High-heeled Math 01:
• 2. Memories of Truancy: Pencils 01:
• 1. Memories of Truancy: Mr. Major and His Minor 01:
• Boyhood Empire: An Introduction 01:
• Soup saga 01:
• In deep winter 01:

January 2023

• A day in the life 22:
• Discovering English literature 19:
• Film Review: “RRR” 11:
• Bringer of bread 06:
• Once upon a shoe 06:
• On Christmas carols 01:

January 2025

• Joy of learning 22:

December 2022

• Suicide blonde 28:
• Five stages of Christmas grief 26:
• A traveler’s advice 23:
• Italian pocket change 22:
• Memories of Anne 17:
• Household diplomacy 05:
• Toward the revival of diplomacy 02:

November 2022

• Film: “Everything Everywhere All At Once” 29:
• Words from the darkness 25:
• The spirit of Catanzaro 24:
• Sue, New York, and I 16:

October 2022

• Why actors act 23:
• The Queen’s Suite 22:
• Back to normal 17:

September 2022

• Tomato terror 29:
• Bare male flesh 22:
• A quiet fortune 22:
• Under the rainbow serpent 20:
• Following a thread of Anderson’s 13:
• Solitude in Mustang 09:
• Open letter to James Baldwin 05:

August 2022

• Fire Island 21:
• Cool cooking 20:
• When the U.S. played God 16:
• Gypsies at the fair 03:

July 2022

• Looking for CRAD 27:
• Violet’s letter 26:
• Voices of freedom 23:
• Playground 05:
• Tale of two authors 03:

June 2022

• Many changes 25:
• The last blacksmith 21:
• Keeping it simple 13:
• Bacurau 06:

May 2022

• Behind the tell-tale phases 31:
• Virus woes or a warning? 24:
• The Day of the Puma 21:
• Language of life 15:
• I Found Out 13:
• Day of fears overcome 12:
• Finding hidden shapes 07:
• Solace in a sea of tranquility 07:
• Intimacy of word 04:
• C’mon C’mon 03:

April 2022

• The hypocrite cook 30:
• The last Oscar 30:
• Water in their blood 23:
• Don’t worry, be happy 22:
• The worst of times 18:
• Workout mat’s therapy session 16:
• On Pope Francis and war 16:
• Goodbye, Don Matteo 12:
• When hype mars history 06:
• Unequal compassion 01:

March 2022

• The art of teaching 29:
• La poubelle agréée 26:
• Film: “The Man in the Hat” 24:
• The Ukraine sandlot 23:
• Shovel and broom 19:
• Letter from an enemy friend 15:
• Mooville 13:
• Inside India’s abstention 12:
• Radio days 10:
• Film: Photocopier 08:
• Lost Ruud 07:
• How does your garden grow? 07:

February 2022

• Villainy’s double standards 27:
• A marked man 27:
• The art of seeing 26:
• Hubert’s weather 25:
• A husband too far 25:
• Engendering ragù 23:
• How one war’s legacy endures 18:
• Coffee with glaucoma 15:
• For love of waxing 13:
• All in a name 11:
• Acreage and apocalypse (Hawaiian reflections 2) 11:
• On Maui and change (Hawaiian reflections 1) 07:
• Film: “The Forgotten Battle” 04:
• COVID: It ain’t over 04:
• America, America! 03:
• On Armistice Day 02:
• The Afghan stain 02:
• Love at first bite 02:
• West Side Story 01:

January 2022

• Joe Biden’s war 29:
• Crumbling resolutions 24:
• Not so bad? Think again 23:
• The Power of the Dog 23:
• Cool, calm, hysterical 17:
• Reading back Germany 16:
• Murals in a fix 11:
• Existential terror! 08:
• Why aren’t you a zombie? 06:
• Anderson in the details 06:
• Where are the sands of yesteryear? 04:

January 2025

• Joy of learning 22:

December 2019

• Raging toward a second act 31:
• Shameless sheep 30:
• Call him June 28:
• Conversing with aloneness 28:
• Coming of age, in English 26:
• Behind closed doors 24:
• The steep price of prosperity 22:
• When it doesn’t add up 21:
• Of monks, monkeys, and kids 20:
• Mother’s back 19:
• Waking to a new language 18:
• His adorable shyness 18:
• Passing the bar 14:
• Oops, forgot the berries! 11:
• Hitler was then, not now 08:
• Ford v Ferrari 08:
• Get help! 08:
• In a New York minute 06:
• End of days 04:
• Talking sense to judgment 02:

November 2019

• To the heart of anorexia 30:
• When tourism goes mad 29:
• The research game, alla Italiana 27:
• Pity the rhetorical question 26:
• Book review ‘Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life ‘ 26:
• L’americana’s time to yearn 23:
• The humbled guide 23:
• Embodying a dream 20:
• For love of craft 20:
• And the abyss deepens 16:
• The local mind 11:
• The kisses left behind 11:
• Back to Gilead 09:
• Letting sleeping figs lie 08:
• An amateur scientist named Poe 04:
• Joker 03:

October 2019

• A personal lexicon 31:
• A genuine home 29:
• The man who wasn’t there 29:
• In viaggio con la bimba, or, Julia’s Italy 27:
• A few basic words 27:
• Presto, by hand! 26:
• A note from the late Krissy perf. 25:
• The strongman surge 23:
• Ah, Paris, so typical 20:
• (E)scaping it 20:
• Review: ‘Rocks’ 20:
• A date with destiny 20:
• Never let them see you cry 17:
• Portrait of a Lady 15:
• One beautiful mess 13:
• Menus for chickens 13:
• A time of cleansing 13:
• A brief history of focaccia 09:
• Matthias and Maxime 07:
• Out of the moment 05:
• St. Maud 04:
• The Roman girl and the Gherkin 04:
• Talking in “human” 02:

September 2019

• A Madrid state of mind 29:
• Father Neptune 29:
• Let success be success 29:
• Synchronic 29:
• Irreversible 27:
• Our kid in Moscow 26:
• Jeffrey Epstein and me 23:
• Bob Dylan wants a drink 21:
• A part of me is leaving 18:
• Expressions are served 15:
• Ice-Land 14:
• Getting dirty and educated 13:
• Not a Caravaggio-like summer 09:
• Review: ‘The Load’ 09:
• A very rich man 06:
• A tell-tale sojourn in “The Big Smoke” 03:
• Più lungo della gamba 01:
• Linklater heads south 01:

August 2019

• A guy, a girl, and their AI buddy 31:
• The trap door called drawing 31:
• Where winter is here 30:
• The making of the unreasonable actor 30:
• Apocalypse Now: Final Cut 27:
• When Capricorn equals Naples 27:
• Once atop the Pompidou 25:
• Calling Los Angeles home 24:
• The dirty truth 24:
• Rentals in the afterlife 21:
• Hose 21:
• From Bologna to Iowa City 20:
• A soupçon of summer soups 14:
• Yesterday 13:
• One man’s “socialism” 10:
• So totally cool 10:
• Breaking the rules 09:
• An uncle’s gift 06:
• The last Gandalf 04:
• A plague’s lengthy shadow 03:
• They Shall Not Grow Old 01:

July 2019

• Loving The HU 31:
• Among Satanic servers 28:
• Finding Bob 26:
• Prisoner #174,517 25:
• Europe, U.S.A 24:
• Land of unlikely smiles 23:
• How fireflies came to matter 20:
• Parasite 20:
• Feminism comes to “Toy Story” 18:
• Pulling the strings 17:
• Summer tales from southern Tuscany 14:
• Vendetta in the rearview mirror 10:
• For love of dogs 09:
• Swimming upstream 07:
• Let them eat cake… 06:
• Stop blaming mountains 03:

June 2019

• Home by the water’s edge 30:
• My father, tis of thee 30:
• The great bidet mystery 26:
• Memories of mouse toast 23:
• The kettle to Provence 23:
• The Martian Jew 23:
• Don’t you dare 19:
• Bad times get worse 19:
• The roots of the matter 15:
• A Bard’s Games 12:
• Going native 09:
• Bob Wilson’s Life and Death of Marina Abramovic 08:
• D-Day’s many lessons 08:
• With Billy on the Kapuas River 05:
• Poisoned, again 02:
• The secret life of class reunions 02:

May 2019

• Bitten 31:
• A dress and a friendship 30:
• The Polar Bear Expedition 26:
• The perils of the markets card 26:
• Reckoning with mistakes 26:
• By night in France 26:
• The bonds that tie 21:
• A memoir born of newsprint 17:
• Letter from the Eastern border 17:
• The eccentric food depot 14:
• A toy story 09:
• Home is where…my hairdresser is 08:
• Hardware off Broadway 05:
• In praise of the crummy 04:

April 2019

• Coming of age: a 1960s story 29:
• Kindling 29:
• The confidence drama 29:
• Of stove and screen 25:
• Polly Swims 25:
• Fab fave and rad radishes 23:
• Gloria Bell 22:
• Crash 20:
• My life with the Pill 20:
• Oops (or, literal detachment) 17:
• Chronicles of a worrywart 15:
• Peeling back Peele 12:
• Twice as vice 10:
• Unzipped 05:
• Some love-hate comestibles 05:

March 2019

• I am the champion 31:
• The Americans 31:
• Doomed from within 31:
• Obioma’s colliding cultures 31:
• The hard part 31:
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 30:
• World without history? 28:
• The limits of history 26:
• 93 24:
• The unforgotten soldier 23:
• The twilight of private clinics 23:
• My 21st-century genetic confession 20:
• A “hare” named Loulou 17:
• Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome 17:
• My dump in Paris 16:
• An artist bears witness 16:
• Polenta’s hardscrabble history 10:
• Capernaum 07:
• Ominous palms 07:
• Thursday night, the University Club 06:
• The reluctant gourmet farmer 03:
• From Signorina to Signora 02:

February 2019

• When the paranoid are right 27:
• Diversity detective 24:
• Inspiration as hard work 24:
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? 22:
• Everybody Knows 22:
• The anthem sprinters 21:
• The anxiety of being a device 21:
• Shoplifters 20:
• When rentals go south 17:
• Beasts of the Cretaceous II 16:
• From reviled to revered 16:
• Three Identical Strangers 15:
• The Yellow Brick Road 14:
• Medicine: bad moon rising 14:
• Color cuisine 13:
• Minding the Gap 12:
• Hot blood, cold war 05:
• Love letters to heal the pain 05:
• All the time in the world 03:
• Vice 03:
• The Favourite 01:

January 2019

• If Umbria could swim 31:
• “Civilizing” America’s schools 31:
• Fallacies on immigration 31:
• Pledging to Aten 31:
• Creed II 30:
• Those adoring eyes 27:
• The opposite of help 26:
• Trees, sunsets — and strikes 25:
• Toward a new vision of Europe 24:
• The 60 percent solution 20:
• If Beale Street Could Talk 20:
• The resistance of Maxim Andreevich 19:
• Stan & Ollie 18:
• Cool Whip resolutions 16:
• The Mamma Mission 16:
• “Wisdom born of pain” 14:
• Beasts of the Cretaceous 14:
• The lies expats tell 14:
• Growing into dictatorship 09:
• Revolution in the offing 07:
• The American crown 06:
• What you can and cannot see 04:
• The Straight Story 03:

January 2025

• Joy of learning 22:

December 2018

• The big toss of a small coin 31:
• Dear Uncle 31:
• Last vanity 30:
• Inching the dresser — forever 29:
• The origins of a good “Crafternoon” 28:
• Crashing Black Friday 27:
• Honoring the self 24:
• Lullaby 23:
• Yuletide spacemen 23:
• On the razor’s edge 22:
• Double Nickel 20:
• A homage to Orwell 19:
• Porn and the man 19:
• Green Book 15:
• A most awful circle 15:
• The Turk 13:
• Piano keys and ponies 11:
• The greatest gifts 11:
• What’s to forgive? 08:
• Andrew Carnegie and I 07:
• The House with a Clock in its Walls 06:
• At Dusk 05:
• Driving in the sticks (or, Wonders never cease) 02:
• Ruth 02:

November 2018

• The greening of catalog culture 29:
• Inspirational saffron 29:
• When grades make you sick 29:
• DIY gone AWOL 29:
• Revisions, big and small 29:
• When time stops 29:
• Thus wrote Crilloffer 25:
• Once upon a catwalk 25:
• Roma 24:
• Thoughts on Grindr 23:
• To sexists, my heartfelt thanks 23:
• The sale that wasn’t 23:
• Hazardous ducks 21:
• What dreams may come 20:
• Turning back the clock 18:
• Freeway Flyer 18:
• A genius with food 17:
• A family, coming apart 16:
• On the roof with Alvin 15:
• In praise of nuts 09:
• The Kindergarten Teacher 06:
• Friend of the dead 06:
• Bella Ciao, and memories of a man 06:
• Husband in the grass 04:
• Going “home” again 02:
• Killing Commendatore 01:
• Support the Girls 01:

October 2018

• Holiday 31:
• A tiny dose of reality 28:
• A cold Vienna memoir 28:
• Italy’s phantom money 27:
• Free Solo 27:
• How to choose a good therapist 27:
• All my food in vain 27:
• Foams and “mouses” 26:
• LFF: Only You 26:
• A Star is Born 26:
• Jorge’s first trip (or, the suitcase dialogues) 22:
• LFF:Profile 22:
• The new milkmen 21:
• Here comes Susie 20:
• He did it, but why? 18:
• I Gemelli, an Italian story 16:
• LFF: Widows 15:
• LFF: Destroyer 15:
• LFF: Papi Chulo 12:
• Joy on pointe 12:
• The raging down below 12:
• Catch-22 and the draft 12:
• A Star Is Born 12:
• Venom 12:
• Slow week, slow month, slow decade 09:
• I wait 05:
• Poor brown barnacles 05:
• Los Angeles, south of Rome 05:

September 2018

• The Lamborghini VI (or, Nell’s impermanence) 30:
• Arguing with testosterone 30:
• Games nations play 29:
• Thoughts on the red red cape 26:
• A chilling kind of convenience 26:
• Italian 101 (or, In the beginning) 25:
• Xanax in love 24:
• Too few rooms 23:
• Hereditary 23:
• C U at 8 22:
• Other people’s messes 22:
• The Linden Tree 22:
• Bargain-hunting
 roulette 20:
• Fire escapes 18:
• But it tastes bad… 16:
• The Endless 15:
• Artificial flavoring 15:
• Your friendly curmudgeon 12:
• We, the animals, sue you 12:
• Ready Player One 12:
• In A Quiet Place 11:
• In an immigrant’s words 08:
• Anxious youth 08:
• BlacKkKlansman 05:
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before 05:
• Sleeping with the enemy 04:
• My grandmother’s stew 04:
• After the boardwalk 02:

August 2018

• Crazy rich culture 31:
• Innkeepers of the world, unite! 27:
• A piece of colored fabric 27:
• Philanthropy by any other name 26:
• The secret life of nonnas (or, Jesus’ lost arm) 25:
• T-Rex in your bed 25:
• Swallows and the sea 23:
• Acid 22:
• On Viale dei Ricordi 19:
• Kudos for Cusk 19:
• Hospital histrionics 18:
• Kudos 17:
• The Russiagate challenge 15:
• Genoa, tolling 15:
• Dejà-vous! 12:
• Ascendance complete 12:
• From words to anatomy, and back 12:
• Black man, white voice 09:
• Duck Butter 09:
• Where I come from 07:
• Shoplifters 03:
• Meals with infants 03:
• Fleeing carbonation 01:
• A peril named Davide 01:

July 2018

• A Ciambra 30:
• Up against nature 30:
• Democrazy 28:
• Poems and lucky stars 28:
• Seelenverwandte 28:
• About a boy, and the city around him 28:
• Fortuneteller 22:
• Coffee shop nothings 21:
• Cool dining in Hades 21:
• We exist! 16:
• The Tale 15:
• When violence trumps politics 15:
• Un paio di scarpe 13:
• Mamma memories 10:
• Bodies and bodywork 09:
• Unintended consequences 09:
• Failures to communicate 09:
• Barry Lyndon 09:
• Welcome to the jungle 03:
• A special sundae school 01:
• Flying by numbers 01:

June 2018

• Is Less the new more? 30:
• A jester’s glossary 28:
• A book by its cover 28:
• A ‘mother’ turned affluent 26:
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 26:
• A boy named Zboo 25:
• Cometh the flowers 25:
• To Kri with love 23:
• The great adrenalin sweepstakes 21:
• My love of leftovers 21:
• Dumbing down the nuts 21:
• The fizzle 19:
• Fine dining in a different key 17:
• A large and troubled piazza 16:
• Creature of Habit 13:
• Annhilation 03:
• Whimpers before roars 03:
• Long before Luke 02:
• Paese dei miracoli, redux 01:

May 2018

• Bringing back politics 31:
• With the Tuscan… male 29:
• Honoring words 28:
• In Darkness 27:
• The Emissary 27:
• Good times, and bad 26:
• Puritans like me 26:
• The legacy spell 26:
• Dressing for imposters 25:
• Lock, load, duck 22:
• Peace through Taiko 22:
• The House That Jack Buit 21:
• November 20:
• Lions and tigers, and numbers 20:
• When she falls for her 20:
• Among the child believers 20:
• A garden guru named Jean 14:
• Legends 13:
• Revenge 12:
• Germ warfare all’italiana 12:
• A Touch of Evil 11:
• Attack the Block 11:
• A short history of catnip 10:
• La dolce vita is not so sweet 09:
• Making pulp 08:
• Denis Johnson’s last largesse 08:
• Giarratana’s precious red gold 07:
• A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B. 06:
• Anon 05:
• Sweat forever 05:
• The Awful Truth 04:
• Before We Vanish 04:
• Bombshell: The Life of Hedy Lamarr 04:
• The era of uneven U.S. power 04:
• Scrap speaks 01:
• My lovely Neanderthals 01:

April 2018

• Meet Alice on the warpath 30:
• Glass Elevator 30:
• Dreaming in Umbrian 27:
• Pilgrims, pioneers, and Italians 27:
• My life, your tale 27:
• Antidepressant temperance 27:
• No direction home 27:
• The long goodbye 27:
• Did I say you could sleep with me? 26:
• Rules, Italian-style 21:
• 68 Kill 19:
• The Square 19:
• Black new world 16:
• The white coat 15:
• Thyme on my hands 13:
• Marshall 10:
• The reference letter 09:
• My Cousin Rachel 08:
• You sexy dish 08:
• Bleach and wag 07:

March 2018

• Eco’s populist prophesy 31:
• Always the bridesmaid 31:
• Life and death 31:
• Truths we know 31:
• A sense of public decorum 30:
• Economic hardball 30:
• Tully 30:
• Present arms 29:
• Miss you, Mum 26:
• Red Sparrow 26:
• Picking among disciplines 26:
• Learning from bread 26:
• Sweet as a peach 20:
• Dammi la mano 18:
• Mario and Nikolas 15:
• Stupid tetrapod! 13:
• Zitná Y2K 13:
• Go north, food-lover 12:
• Twin peeks 11:
• The color of power 06:
• Codes of love 01:

February 2018

• Barnes on “Love” 28:
• What dreams may come 28:
• Gold medal art 28:
• Every vote counts 28:
• Game (back) on 28:
• Condominium blues 27:
• Republican journey’s end 27:
• Finish lines 25:
• Watching for a wink 25:
• How you get better 24:
• The rime of the tired medical student 23:
• I, Tonya 23:
• Mudbound 22:
• Lucky 21:
• Darkest Hour 20:
• Reading the tea leaves 16:
• Growing up 11:
• Creature comfort 11:
• The Post 11:
• Indiscretion of an American Wife (Stazione Termini) 10:
• Heart to resist 09:
• Squishing the bogan 05:
• Elmet 02:

January 2018

• Notes from da Lola 31:
• The Bitcoin conundrum 31:
• Nevo’s rules 31:
• Taxes vs. penalties 31:
• The Green Knight 28:
• Cui bono 27:
• Running the mental gantlet 27:
• The pill bottle 27:
• Come ti chiami? 27:
• His way, a requiem 21:
• Annoying at any age 21:
• For love of pigs 19:
• All the Money in the World 16:
• Remember the outhouse 14:
• Sensuously scintillating sauce 14:
• A stone house in a deep dark forest 13:
• Of Brown and muffin mysteries 13:
• Sight at a loss for words 07:
• American Made 07:
• Musical drugs 06:
• Five-inchers 06:
• Phantom Thread 06:
• It never ends 01:

January 2025

• Joy of learning 22:

December 2015

• The Last Stand of Ms. Betty J. Washington 31:
• Euro on the horizon 31:
• The naming game 31:
• Talking a blue streak 30:
• Bridge too far 29:
• It slipped my mind 29:
• If I ran the U 28:
• Día de Reyes, I 28:
• Between the lines 27:
• Dozzy and Caragnano 26:
• Acing the test of time 25:
• Early light 25:
• Superheroes of love 25:
• Doubling down 25:
• Blue cheese 22:
• Bacon 22:
• Dinner 21:
• My happy place 21:
• The malady of fear 21:
• Meet, eat, pour, repeat 21:
• Airy-Man 20:
• Frogs and banks 18:
• Scacciadiavola 18:
• Gratitude’s 10 steps 18:
• Loss of faith 15:
• No way 15:
• Securing the child 15:
• The Gift 14:
• The sumptuous 24th 13:
• The Man in the High Castle 13:
• The insolence of demagogues 12:
• Cooking with the stars 11:
• Feast accomplished 08:
• One Out of Two 06:
• Tyler’s Last 06:
• “Very, very real” 05:
• Room 05:
• Skywalker’s intell 05:
• Life on the Mississippi 05:

November 2015

• Boots 30:
• Faith 30:
• The chameleon 30:
• King of the Gypsies 30:
• Spelunking 30:
• Dreamhouse blues 29:
• After-burger 28:
• Joy? I wonder! 27:
• We at SAD 27:
• Lost, not found 27:
• Two-Spirits 27:
• Off the beaten pasta 27:
• Trojan Horse Christmas 26:
• Memories of Mangiagalli 26:
• In the cloud 26:
• Fat City 23:
• Paris, III 22:
• A shocker 22:
• Once upon a time 22:
• Toothless crime 22:
• Getting underneath 20:
• Truth 19:
• Paris, II 18:
• Hey guys! 18:
• Love, actually 16:
• Body heat 15:
• Paris 15:
• Campania awakens, II 15:
• Bullies and heroes 14:
• The Walk 12:
• The hungry dozen 12:
• Prosperous Friends 12:
• Subversive matchmaking 11:
• The Tsar of Love and Techno 11:
• Ghost town 09:
• Dear Amazon 08:
• Ties worth unbinding 06:
• The unmarked 03:
• Mistress America 03:
• The End of the Tour 02:

October 2015

• Coffee wars 31:
• Billy woes 31:
• Number one 31:
• V-man 31:
• I know you. Or do I? 30:
• Thoughts on fresh meat 30:
• Not so fast 30:
• Getting dirty in “Purity” 29:
• The great divide 29:
• No witch 29:
• Denkmal in Berlin 29:
• Price-sick 27:
• Matchmaker, matchmaker 27:
• Dear Thief 26:
• The brave 25:
• The Detour 25:
• Vraiment? 24:
• Don’t add it up 24:
• The ghosts 23:
• Alchemy’s soundtrack 23:
• Discovering home 23:
• ASAIWBFY 22:
• Jacky Sutton 19:
• A legacy-wrecker 19:
• Dennis the Martian 18:
• 116 16:
• Man From Reno 16:
• Loving the elephant 16:
• Campania awakens, I 16:
• Submission 14:
• The Muse 13:
• The enemy of my enemy 10:
• Bologna, inside out 10:
• A state of doubt 10:
• The English world 10:
• A jury of my beers 06:
• Whatcheeria 04:
• Three Moments of an Explosion 02:
• A Cat, A Man, and Two Women 01:

September 2015

• Endangered strikers 30:
• Quan belongs 30:
• Myth-busting 30:
• Mondo paese 30:
• A tougher pilgrim 27:
• Ice music 27:
• Wanting the best 27:
• Man of few words 27:
• No contest 27:
• Crybaby world 27:
• Mal d’Italie 27:
• Results 27:
• Southern discomfort 27:
• The Sheer Impossibility of Nothingness 24:
• Touching the afterlife 24:
• Un-auntied 22:
• Days of yore 21:
• Postcard from “paradise” 21:
• Carrère polishes Limonov 21:
• Flavia and Maurizio 20:
• Little big man 17:
• Listening and learning 17:
• Watermelon man 17:
• Night moves 14:
• Misprison of modern relief 13:
• It Follows 13:
• Southern gems 13:
• Down the road 12:
• Vege’n it 11:
• The summer of change 11:
• Drink the water 06:
• Sleep and fruit 06:
• The hunger 06:

August 2015

• I raise you a childhood 31:
• Gore and the Glorious Bird 31:
• Which side of the fence? 31:
• Flip-flopped 31:
• Sexy armas 31:
• Smart rules 31:
• Z for Zachariah 31:
• Synth and so much jazz 31:
• H8RZ 30:
• Smart dolls 30:
• My dirty secret 30:
• Duck and run 30:
• A-t-t-e-n-t-i-o-n to me 28:
• Game of loans 28:
• Area B 28:
• The sham 28:
• Waiting to inhale 25:
• Whose Watchman? 24:
• Disappearing water 24:
• Pasture 23:
• Jocasta’s brooch 21:
• A different light 21:
• Loud men 21:
• The Illogic of Kassel 18:
• Women in surgery 17:
• One tick at a time 17:
• Mr. Smith 16:
• In defense of dogs 14:
• Stuff 14:
• Goodbye August myth 10:
• Veering to beer 10:
• 71 09:
• Erectile function 09:
• Yes means risk 09:
• Nectarine of the gods 08:
• Outside city lights 05:
• Voice in the night 01:

July 2015

• Balls away 31:
• Breezes past 31:
• Pelvic adventures 31:
• Going home 30:
• He’ll have the octopus 30:
• Vocal manipulations 30:
• Drama queen 29:
• Apples of memory 28:
• Flying Cloud 26:
• The perils of doing nothing 26:
• The forgotten ones 26:
• The bone boys 26:
• Daydream of the before 26:
• While We’re Young 24:
• The teacher 23:
• War in mind 23:
• No love lost 23:
• Age in motion 21:
• Mezzo Americano 21:
• Hey there! 18:
• Arabian ice 18:
• A man and a woman 18:
• Change-management 15:
• The debt game 13:
• Café anti-society 12:
• Sandy’s world 12:
• The Mersault Investigation 12:
• Cereal killer 11:
• The old writer speaks 10:
• Meet the novelist 10:
• Rediscovering Lazio 10:
• Sacred eating 10:
• Greece 05:
• Teaching tolerance 05:
• Ghosts of the southern wild 05:

June 2015

• It’s hard to love a chicken, II 30:
• News of his death 30:
• Working the muscle 30:
• Turner’s Venice 30:
• The Making of the Zombie Wars 30:
• A sheep story 29:
• Sacred eating 28:
• Sexual combat 28:
• Feeling Irish 26:
• The emotional superhighway 26:
• Standing up 26:
• Drinking up the morning 25:
• On being participantly observed 25:
• Market watch 22:
• Noroc! 22:
• Greek to them 22:
• Mrs. Townsend 21:
• Smitten 19:
• Klieg lights 18:
• Red Army 17:
• The consultant 17:
• Feasible felines 17:
• Cup half-full 17:
• A lesson from Woody 14:
• The Country Road 14:
• Footfalls 13:
• Cultural competence 13:
• New dawn for Daughn 13:
• Slow West 13:
• Chickens Eat Pasta 13:
• Hot plates 10:
• Small wonders 08:
• Curse me till I’m dead 07:
• Red summer 07:
• An American nightmare 07:
• Hardening into normal 05:
• Animal Mother 04:
• Leviathan 02:
• Chilling sips 02:
• American Sniper 01:

May 2015

• The Long Good Bye 31:
• The thrill is gone 31:
• See no evil 31:
• 9/11 at the dinner table 31:
• Our disappearing fish 30:
• Little Oscars 30:
• North slope hots 28:
• Josephine 28:
• The nostalgic nomad 28:
• Dignity 27:
• The man 25:
• Roman Tales 25:
• Time Lapse 25:
• Mortality is so passé 25:
• Stella and Giusy 24:
• Checking on the water lilies 24:
• Cooling down 24:
• Something in the air 23:
• Into Mediterranea 23:
• Motherland 20:
• Kid questions 18:
• Morata’s choice 17:
• The mind of the gut 17:
• Captain of all 17:
• Broken codes 17:
• Whatever Eva wants 15:
• Silver (screen) linings 15:
• Black Sea 13:
• A Love Affair 13:
• 12 Edmonstone Street 12:
• Happy accidents 12:
• BFF 10:
• Done got old baby 10:
• An easy roe to hoe 09:
• Having it once 07:
• Scarred Hearts 06:
• A sense of Venice 06:
• Blood to wine 06:
• Big Eyes 05:
• Hollywoodland 04:
• Three kings and an old lady 04:
• New kid; new words 04:
• All thumbs 03:

April 2015

• Anticipation 30:
• A new me 30:
• In charge 30:
• The Lamborghini, V 29:
• Momentous moment 29:
• Barbera and Red 28:
• Who’s laughing now? 27:
• My Documents 27:
• The Comedians 27:
• Siding with the sea 26:
• Ventures and gains 26:
• Al fresco 26:
• Gone, Baby, Gone 26:
• The Unknown Known 25:
• Bacon’ me crazy 25:
• Barracks, lamb and beer 25:
• Domino effect 25:
• Love Eternal 24:
• The calming unknown 22:
• The damage done 21:
• The End of Days 21:
• Aquarium 20:
• Pulling the Tigger 19:
• Pantry peeping 18:
• All grown up 17:
• Exile’s return 17:
• Christine 15:
• Looking to heal 15:
• The Roman admonishment 15:
• Robinson, Lila, and God 13:
• Wooly mammoth 12:
• The Chandor chokehold 12:
• Eye to eye 12:
• A Girl Walks Home at Night 11:
• The Canal 10:
• Rabbit, run 10:
• As Good As Dead 10:
• Race and marketing 09:
• House of Cards 09:
• Pope and presidents 07:
• Young Skins 06:
• Brooch 05:
• Adventures in Immediate Irreality 05:
• Some like it hot 05:

March 2015

• Crime wine 31:
• Brandi and Bridget on hold 31:
• Washington George 30:
• Two countries 30:
• The Dream of My Return 30:
• The Duellists 29:
• The Italia dream 29:
• It’s hard to love a chicken 29:
• Wild Canaries 28:
• Katagiri’s folly 27:
• A human condition 27:
• Little list of wonders 27:
• Mommy the Martyr (retired) 26:
• Snap, crackle, words 26:
• The FATCA follies 24:
• Inherent Vice 23:
• Banshees 22:
• The Buried Giant 21:
• “Weigh your actions carefully” 21:
• Unconditional surrender 21:
• The right to write 21:
• Snow and the man 19:
• The survival argument 19:
• Doerr’s luminous light 16:
• Exhausting intimacy 16:
• Completely still 15:
• One good relationship 15:
• Pumpkin man 15:
• The Homesman 15:
• Noir as night 15:
• Duplex 14:
• Re-used, with love 12:
• A Minor Apocalypse 09:
• The vanishing 08:
• Fifty Shades of Grey 08:
• The creative knife 08:
• March-ing orders 07:
• No love lost 07:
• Whiplash 04:
• Blurt 01:

February 2015

• Woman’s best friend? 28:
• The Danish phase 28:
• Red side of the tracks 28:
• Chips must fall 28:
• “To the U.S.A. commander…” 28:
• Memories of power 28:
• Splitting cheese hairs 27:
• Lucifer’s treat 26:
• Keep the belly 26:
• Memories of migration 26:
• Ego and perseverance 23:
• A proper mayor 23:
• Après nous 22:
• Butterscotch candy 21:
• The special one 21:
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 21:
• Wool! 20:
• Munro’s damaged lives 19:
• The home front 18:
• I also have a saw! 17:
• Giver & Mass 16:
• The God tax 15:
• Shaky comparisons 15:
• Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes) 14:
• Unplanned 12:
• A delicate uptick 12:
• Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal 10:
• Super-marketers 09:
• Brian Williams 08:
• Slices of life 08:
• Growing up boys 08:
• I Refuse 06:
• Keeping it simple 05:
• Trois couleurs: Blanc (Three Colors: White) 03:
• Blame the insurgents 01:

January 2015

• Cordy 31:
• Don’t mind the gap 31:
• Parmesan, uncut 31:
• Zeroing in 29:
• Super sized desperation 29:
• Life without Tyler 29:
• A world of hurt 29:
• Flavia’s passion 28:
• Winter oddities 27:
• Chocolate chip 27:
• Multiple moons 25:
• All Days Are Night 25:
• Doctor talk 25:
• Bloody Teroldego 24:
• “In other news…” 24:
• 47th & Mohammad 23:
• The Babadook 22:
• Eden Lake 21:
• A mother’s Sherlock 21:
• Jacobson’s Final Solution 19:
• Human warming 18:
• Coccole 18:
• A night to remember 17:
• Bro 16:
• Snake and tail, repeat 15:
• St. Nick’s Bar & Grill 15:
• The hospital illusion 13:
• Franny and Zooey 11:
• Tossing out the book 11:
• At peace with terror 11:
• Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation 09:
• Frank 09:
• Unfriended 08:
• Charlie Hebdo’s blood 07:
• There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In 05:
• Memex to the present 05:
• Hoppin’ peas 04:
• I Origins 04:
• Moons past HAL 04:
• Night Moves 02:
• Picking and choosing 01:

January 2025

• Joy of learning 22:

December 2014

• Oh, Roger Churchill! 31:
• Another year 31:
• Home cooking 31:
• Three and out 30:
• Brain and music 30:
• Breakdown 29:
• All for Niños 29:
• Live bread 29:
• My flood 28:
• Thoughts on rape 27:
• The case for home 27:
• Eggnog 25:
• Death in Venice 25:
• Hail and farewell 25:
• Ice, baby, ice 25:
• Pro as in secco 22:
• Twilight of the Eastern Gods 22:
• P-/retty p-/lease 21:
• The Laughing Monsters 21:
• Palo Alto 21:
• E.R. alla Romana 21:
• Keeping things whole 19:
• Holiday Spiit 18:
• Cross your fingers 15:
• The walker 15:
• La Vita Ingrata 14:
• Under the bed 13:
• To Bio or not to Bio 13:
• Sinister 11:
• Ulysses in Australia 11:
• Blue Ruin 10:
• The damage done 09:
• ‘Breaking shit’ 07:
• Merry Magic Cow 07:
• The Book of My Lives 06:
• Emotional baggage 04:
• Mr. Nolan, we have a problem 03:

November 2014

• La zingara 30:
• Capeesh? 30:
• Summers on Mars 30:
• Anger management 30:
• You can’t go home again 30:
• The Heart Machine 29:
• A Most Wanted Man 28:
• The moon-chaser 28:
• House of the heart, III 28:
• Wizards of Umbria 27:
• Cruel nourishment 26:
• Where the heart is 26:
• Hello to ‘Over There’ 25:
• Let Me Be Frank With You 25:
• The condominium meeting 24:
• The Prisons 24:
• Girlfriend Studies 23:
• “The will of the commander…” 23:
• About Howard 23:
• Veritas à la Jingdezhen 22:
• Pregnant, paused 20:
• Stonehearst Asylum 19:
• Mopping up 19:
• No place for a pony 16:
• Marring the rainbow 16:
• Still Alice 14:
• A human challenge 14:
• Glutenus Maximus 13:
• How, not why 12:
• Here and there 12:
• The Betrayers 11:
• The Voice Imitator: 104 stories 10:
• X+Y 10:
• Silent running 09:
• Back to Club Tropicana 09:
• The essence of comfort 09:
• Shun Li and the Poet 09:
• Bulls and apes 07:
• Mixed blessings 06:
• Snowdrops 05:
• Under the skin 04:
• Inky 02:
• Trash 02:
• Gone Girl 01:

October 2014

• Awesome Africa 31:
• Gone girl 31:
• Catcalled 31:
• Marketplace rules 31:
• Guarded 30:
• Toby and Pico 30:
• Mr. Erotic Pea 29:
• Coming of age 29:
• House of the heart, II 29:
• The fifth sense 27:
• Zitti! 26:
• The trunk 26:
• Father of invention 25:
• The Signal 25:
• “The pen is paralyzed…” 24:
• Trois couleurs: Bleu (Three Colors: Blue) 24:
• The vanishing act 23:
• Zeno’s Conscience 22:
• Little engines that do 22:
• The copper tip-off 20:
• Meet Pete 19:
• Out of Africa 18:
• Not quite Armageddon 18:
• Pain by any name 17:
• Real cool 16:
• Edge of Tomorrow (Live Die Repeat) 14:
• Godzilla 13:
• The Fairly Good Policeman 13:
• Dining with Columbus 13:
• Ebola 12:
• Currying flavors 12:
• Kindled 12:
• Angel’s rise 11:
• The complaint department 09:
• Barbie’s vagina 08:
• Scusi 05:
• Starred Up 05:
• The Underground Man 04:
• Kat Zet, née Auschwitz 04:
• Jamie Marks is Dead 03:
• How it all began 03:

September 2014

• Uncomfortable injustices 30:
• The longing 30:
• Synth man 30:
• Hard core 29:
• Wish you were here! 28:
• House of the heart, I 27:
• “A sizeable rat…” 27:
• Lies and grit 27:
• From insides out 25:
• Fretting and fennel 25:
• Swept away 25:
• Felony 23:
• The Two Faces of January 22:
• Leaving the Atocha Station 22:
• Sister Marta 21:
• Newbie frage 21:
• Forza rosa! 21:
• More than a horse 20:
• Soccer mom 19:
• Roman housewife 19:
• The biggest hurt 17:
• Sullivan’s Travels 16:
• Dial M for Murder 15:
• Sound the bell 15:
• Must be jelly 15:
• Holes 14:
• “Us” barbarians 13:
• Statehood in flux 13:
• The Third Policeman 11:
• Shock, awe, and sadness 10:
• Locke 09:
• The Zero Theorem 08:
• Another free trial 07:
• Feeling the shoes 07:
• La Rentrée 07:

August 2014

• Slippage 31:
• Finding lost time 31:
• Brandina! Criceto! Imposta! 31:
• Rotation 31:
• Under the Skin 31:
• Hawthorn & Child 31:
• Satanic majesties 31:
• Lust for luster 30:
• War Story 30:
• Italian love 30:
• Brightness and rust 29:
• Testaccio minus innards 29:
• “Take a decisive step…” 27:
• A stranger, less strange 27:
• Only Lovers Left Alive 27:
• Wine and memory 26:
• War games 24:
• Acting in, acting out 24:
• Self-censorship 24:
• Look at me! 23:
• Reign of terror 22:
• Coherence 22:
• Slutty meccas 21:
• The hypocritic oath 20:
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage 20:
• Il kid paese 19:
• August 17:
• The Congress 17:
• Dead-end clichés 17:
• Blaze of glory 16:
• A place for mud 15:
• Vanishing act 14:
• The Dog 13:
• Loose lips sink ships 13:
• Robin Williams 12:
• Investor beware 12:
• To Catch a Thief 11:
• Motherland 10:
• Sleep Dealer 10:
• Scenes From Village Life 10:
• Blue genes? 09:
• No dinner in Gaza 06:
• Unhappiness 06:
• A mother in the room 05:
• Never Love a Gambler 04:
• Kid Napoleon 03:
• The One I Love 03:
• Open City 02:
• Snowpiercer 02:
• Transcendence 01:
• Learning the ropes 01: