Category: Features - Page 11 - The American Mag

Monster or wizard

In the festive weeks leading up to Christmas, I was approached by a number of friends and acquaintances eager [...]

When Hamas carried out a bloody assault on Israeli citizens just outside Gaza, killing hundreds and taking hostages, veteran cynics [...]

There is no knowing why they picked that house, little more than a shy yellow cottage recessed from Wilmington Avenue [...]

Israel says war, and so it is. The retaliatory invasion of Gaza has by now become the Sherman’s March of [...]

In 1856 soon after graduating from Williams College, my maternal great-great grandfather John Stoneman left the upstate New York farm [...]

My daughter’s iPhone has gone rogue. As in Manchurian Candidate rogue. As in Darth Vader rogue. As in AI (read [...]

If books end, so do phases of life, though they refuse to stop blending, one with another. The London excursion [...]

My latest cleaning lady is like a heavy-load truck with slashed tires that keeps on coming. She’s Bulgarian by birth, [...]

My daughter Julia sprang out of bed the other morning declaring that she’d had a dream that we’d taken our [...]

Language is at its best when it spits at by-now universal idioms. France of another era insisted it would never [...]

My much-anticipated VC-10 adventure did not go quite as planned, and yet again, it was my father’s uncanny sense of [...]