A powerful day
Mother's Day is powerful day when it triggers a flood a memories, and with it a sense of loving loss.
L’Americana
Mulling over a return to poetry takes you back in time, some of it informed by Rome.
Rome Zenophobia
Zenobia can legitimately lay claim to the best Middle Eastern restaurant in Rome.
Autobiography of a Face
Lucy Grealy transcends victimization in her cancer narrative. She fought the disease for 18 years.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini's second effort outstrips his best-selling first novel, delving into pained father-son ties.
Joseph Tusiani
"When I was a child, coffee was a luxury in Italy. Only a few people bought it, and for special occasions, a wake, say..."
The Road from Coorain
Jill Ker Conway's recalls her journey from Australia to the halls of American academia.
Leopardi clean
With your Rome roommate, there's clean and then there's Leopardi clean.
Truth and Beauty
Ann Patchett's recounts her friendship with the doomed writer Lucy Grealy.
Goodbye to all that
Enzo Ceci was unable to cope with competitive pressures; he was one of Rome's 2006 closures.
Umberto Veronesi
"[Only] five percent of breast cancer tumors and 10 percent of intestinal tumors are 'genetic,' meaning hereditary."
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris trawls for and finds hilarious anecdotes in family misadventures.