Kristine Crane, Associate Editor, Author at The American Mag

For love of waxing

Columnist Kristine Crane again turns back the clock to her Italian days, but this time the emphasis is on vanity and cultural expectations.

A few mornings ago, just before I awoke from a dream, I told myself this: No one wants to move [...]

I’m spending the fall in Iowa as part of my doctoral degree program. It’s like study abroad — but in [...]

I became a health reporter in Rome years ago. Not officially. That would come a couple of years after I [...]

Every time I return to my father’s house in Iowa, I try to whittle down my childhood belongings. I’m down [...]

Every once in a while, my graduate journalism school posts an article about the Italian aristocrat Beatrice Borromeo Casiraghi, a [...]

When I got pregnant nearly four years ago, I was at a crossroads in my life. I’d just been accepted [...]

I’ve never been a thrill-seeker. I’ve even been called a stick-in-the-mud. As a fourth grader at my school’s annual carnival, [...]

It’s often said that women become their mothers. Ever since my mother died twelve years ago, I’ve noticed how I’ve [...]

Since the start of the pandemic, an Italian phrase has been on my mind: abbiamo soltanto gli uni e gli [...]

One year, I got a Snicker’s bar for Christmas. I’m sure my mother gave me other gifts, as did my [...]

The 1989 movie “Field of Dreams” plays out in my home state of Iowa and at the time gave the [...]