Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor

Of stove and screen

By Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor| 2019-04-29T10:55:43+02:00 April 25th, 2019|"Notebook"|

Working at my desk the other day, I felt the house cool as dusk fell. But since it's officially spring [...]

By Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor| 2019-04-15T19:22:04+02:00 April 10th, 2019|"Notebook"|

Not a day goes by that I don't notice an example of an American trend I wasn't aware of during [...]

As a reviewer, I've read a lot of entries in what I might call the “foreign woman living in Italy [...]

By Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor| 2019-03-10T13:07:56+02:00 March 6th, 2019|"Notebook"|

For columnist Madeleine Johnson, thinking back to long ago Midwestern evenings means card games and music, Lottie and Mildred presiding.

By Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor| 2019-02-07T12:10:57+02:00 January 31st, 2019|"Notebook"|

Whenever I used to tell people that I lived in Italy, the response was almost inevitable. "Oh, that's always been [...]

By Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor| 2019-01-07T12:00:09+02:00 January 4th, 2019|"Notebook"|

The highlight of my 2018 was a trip to France to commemorate the centenary of the World War I Armistice, [...]

By Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor| 2018-12-07T14:35:45+02:00 November 29th, 2018|"Notebook"|

When columnist Madeleine Johnson was young, one Christmas catalog fit all. Not so in 21st-century America, a nation of tribes.

By Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor| 2018-11-06T14:37:17+02:00 November 2nd, 2018|"Notebook"|

More than a year ago, I moved to rural New Hampshire from Milan, where I had lived for 30 years. [...]

By Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor| 2018-09-02T22:54:37+02:00 August 31st, 2018|"Notebook"|

One of the delights of director John M. Chu's comedy "Crazy Rich Asians" is hearing the reasons viewers worldwide are [...]

By Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor| 2018-08-07T13:52:51+02:00 August 3rd, 2018|"Notebook"|

The other day, after speaking at a conference and going out for dinner, I happened to pass a noisy and [...]

By Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor| 2018-07-01T18:57:55+02:00 June 28th, 2018|"Notebook"|

Everyone knows that learning a foreign language exposes you to another culture. New words open doors to new ideas and [...]

By Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor| 2018-06-21T13:09:43+02:00 May 26th, 2018|"Notebook"|

It's commencement speech season. I have never been under the illusion that any educational institution would ever ask me to [...]