Memory Lane - The American Mag

Waking to a new language

By Will Keppler Robinson| 2019-12-20T16:20:49+01:00 December 18th, 2019|

I don’t think the memory ever went away. It did [...]

By Kristine Crane, Associate Editor| 2019-11-26T12:16:18+01:00 November 23rd, 2019|

Columnist Kristine Crane got her moniker when she fist moved to Rome. Now, deep into the Trump era, recollections have turned into wistfulness.

By Christopher P. Winner| 2019-11-11T19:33:25+01:00 October 27th, 2019|

At age 12, grazed by the early scintilla of puberty, [...]

By Susan Levenstein| 2019-10-23T11:25:21+02:00 October 20th, 2019|

For Goethe, Italy was the idyllic land of golden oranges. [...]

By Henry Bennett| 2019-09-29T14:21:32+02:00 September 26th, 2019|

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly [...]

By Christopher P. Winner| 2019-09-15T18:13:34+02:00 September 15th, 2019|

When I was five and a half and had just [...]

By Madeline Klosterman| 2019-08-10T15:41:23+02:00 August 6th, 2019|

Yesterday, I got a call informing me my Uncle Tom [...]

By Joe Scott| 2019-07-31T23:17:34+02:00 July 26th, 2019|

Columnist Joe Scott's memories of his father were few and harsh, until a box of letters brought pieces of a dark past into better focus.

By Kristine Crane, Associate Editor| 2019-08-06T21:05:14+02:00 July 20th, 2019|

It's summer, high time for columnist Kristine Crane to turn the clock back to small-city Iowa life and the mysteries of youth.

By Elaine Luti| 2019-05-09T20:00:39+02:00 May 4th, 2019|

I was in Berlin the other weekend to visit my [...]

By Joe Scott| 2019-05-04T14:25:21+02:00 April 29th, 2019|

A trip down memory lane with columnist Joe Scott includes taking stock of "planetaty gents" and much ado about "Paris Match" and pistons.

By Joe Scott| 2019-01-24T22:02:18+01:00 January 19th, 2019|

A few years after I moved into the building at [...]