Landolfi’s Method
Landolfi's Italy is a demented kaleidoscope — De Chirico, Tissot, Toulouse Lautrec, Daumier and maybe Van Gogh.
Draft
Iraq is the first American war whose casualties threaten neither government leadership nor siphon from the ruling class.
Debiti
"You have all these syndicated shows about doctors and cops and lawyers, and we were thinking: Isn't it our turn?"
Cover letter
I manage anger; I am sensitive; I train others to kneel. My faith is yours, an adaptation.
Moonfog
Saddam Hussein’s inevitable death sentence comes as Nero fiddles.
My Favorite Things
When I'm feeling bad, I just remember the best Milan things, including bats and trams...
To Have & To Hold
Home is where I've had a mailing address. A bungalow in Karachi, a flat in Dubai, a West Village walk-up.
Dominoes
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Vietnamese sugar threat and Indonesian pillows...
Fallacy
American interventionism wants to tease David from Michelangelo's marble.
Izzy
The Department of Historical Fallacy was the brainchild of pamphleteer I.F. Stone — and my father.
At Face Value
I've faced prejudices that come with what a friend described as my "country club face."