Hell no, we won’t stay
We wouldn't have stood for it. A week maybe, tops. We had no internet. We had no cable TV news. [...]
Home, sick home… maybe
Italians are flexible, resourceful, and sensible. These are the traits that are serving them well as the coronavirus crisis continues, [...]
The fall of Lombardy
The wildfire spread of the coronavirus pandemic in northern Italy is still not fully understood. The return of many Chinese [...]
Wash before looking
Based on a name applied to an infectious lung disease caused by a pandemic virus in the year 2020, Covid [...]
With Underwood aforethought
A not especially subtle American president made a very shrewd move the other day. Breaking from his immoveable optimism about [...]
An Eastertime dirge
The meaning of life is that it ends. • Franz Kafka, dead of tuberculosis at age 40. It is the [...]
The never-ending sickness
Scientists around the globe are scrambling to find a pharmacological fix for COVID-19, the disease caused by the world-stopping coronavirus [...]
You are not alone
They say that counting and other typical obsessive-compulsive symptoms are elicited in all of us in situations of danger. No [...]
Gold in a strange time
From her American vantage point, columnist Madeleine Johnson hails Italy's virus resolve and wishes she were in Milan to help.
My midlife car
One of the adjustments I made in moving back to America after a near-decade in Italy was driving again. I [...]
18 years after 28 days
Danny Boyle's plague-driven 2002 film "28 Days Later" comes with an alternative ending. In the first, the sole survivors of [...]