Kristine Crane, Associate Editor, Author at The American Mag

About a dog

The story of a dog often has much in common with the story of a human life and its passages.

Mother's Day is powerful day when it triggers a flood a memories, and with it a sense of loving loss.

Mulling over a return to poetry takes you back in time, some of it informed by Rome.

Zenobia can legitimately lay claim to the best Middle Eastern restaurant in Rome.

Lucy Grealy transcends victimization in her cancer narrative. She fought the disease for 18 years.

Khaled Hosseini's second effort outstrips his best-selling first novel, delving into pained father-son ties.

"When I was a child, coffee was a luxury in Italy. Only a few people bought it, and for special occasions, a wake, say..."

Jill Ker Conway's recalls her journey from Australia to the halls of American academia.

With your Rome roommate, there's clean and then there's Leopardi clean.

Ann Patchett's recounts her friendship with the doomed writer Lucy Grealy.

Enzo Ceci was unable to cope with competitive pressures; he was one of Rome's 2006 closures.

"[Only] five percent of breast cancer tumors and 10 percent of intestinal tumors are 'genetic,' meaning hereditary."