Italy's recent lockdown forced many of us to come up with something to occupy our time. Northern Italy was the [...]

Why is it that being bullied as a kid can stay with you for a lifetime? I'd had a cappuccino [...]

Our 25-year-old friend Nicolo came to dinner a couple of weeks ago. Suddenly, over pasta, he told my husband Alberto [...]

Play is the way that intelligent animals learn. It's also the way children discover who they are and how they [...]

It’s Saturday evening and I’m hanging out with my English speaking "Meet Up "group on Milan's Via Lecco. By midnight, [...]

I’m sitting with my friend Fabrizio in a shabby chic cafe that charges more for table fees and service than [...]

A common lament among expats, outsiders and newcomers to Italy — as well as from some who have lived here [...]

Facing an increasingly hostile Italian political environment, one whose bias extends to the Roman Catholic Church, established social norms, and [...]

Gay literature is a testimony to love, pain and suffering. As with any group, particularly a minority group, it is [...]

It's a big deal in the gay community when a film that deals directly with homosexual desire makes it to [...]