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Recapturing a childhood Christmas

For many people, the Christmas season is one of melancholy rather than the expected joy. There are people who feel [...]

Christmas is right around the corner! And what better way to get into the spirit of the yuletide season than [...]

In August 1988, my mother died in Washington, D.C. — her second home after Rome — and made a very [...]

The Living Infinite: A Novel, by Chantel Acevedo, crafts a historical fiction story based on Eulalia, the nineteenth-century Spanish daughter [...]

When I finished my dissertation last summer, surreptitiously becoming a doctor of philosophy, I reposted the Facebook announcement sent out [...]

During the thirty years I lived in Italy, at dinner parties, there was one statement that was sure to shut [...]

This is a love story that could easily slip through the cracks if you let it. I won’t and can’t, [...]

Just before the COVID-19 pandemic flooded the planet, my job was supporting people with learning disabilities to live and build [...]

Some Americans who volunteer to fight in foreign wars are remembered as heroes. Many others are lucky to be remembered [...]

Three years after Benjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World debuted as a bestselling translation of historical metafiction [...]

Acquaintances of mine sold a longtime family property in a midsized rural city in the American South. The house, which [...]