A “well-integrated” Italian?
When I first applied for my residence permit in Italy, I signed an agreement stating that I would commit to [...]
Suicide by ferry
In the movie masterpiece “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” the two outlaws have been fleeing Pinkerton mercenaries who have [...]
Photo essay: Sticking to tradition
Raised on the Upper West Side of New York City, daughter of a Jewish mother and Anglican father, both [...]
Bruised and battered
Being asked what superpower I wanted used to really stress me out as a child. “Only one?” I’d bemoan. How [...]
One beautiful montage
Among film connoisseurs, one of the most abhorred techniques is the montage. Some critics consider it a cardinal sin, an [...]
Trail of Tears to Palestine
• The colonist makes history. His life is an epic, an odyssey. He is invested with the very beginning: “We [...]
Photo essay: Home at the forge
My husband, Simon, is a Master Artist Blacksmith; he began learning the craft in England from his father, and [...]
Warrior culture
Michael Paris, a historian at the University of Lancashire, whom I met during my high school history class, has been [...]
At war’s end
Like a character in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, I recently joined a British pilgrimage in “April, when its showers are sweet.” [...]
Blackbirds of May
A shiny, blue-black merle is drinking from our terrace birdbath, throwing back his little orange beak, and enjoying the cool [...]
Making good trouble
Fighting incessant wind, I hold my homemade sign high above my head as I yell into the highway, “Show me [...]