Other Work by Christopher Winner
In the heat of the moment
It is 11 a.m. on what has for days been billed as Rome’s hottest summer day so far. This is [...]
Twilight of an astronaut
Many moons ago I imagined myself an astronaut. I was then in my teens, but my head was in the [...]
Persistence before aptitude
There I was again. Hunched over my paperback Bible, stricken with doubt and eager for inspiration. But this Bible offered [...]
Bringer of bread
In the dog days of early July, when all cooling breezes resolve to leave the city, the aging screenwriter who [...]
Toward the revival of diplomacy
A war is child’s play with morosely adult consequences. A bully tries to snare a weakling as a means to [...]
The spirit of Catanzaro
Italy has long been modern Europe’s foremost repository for offhand clichés. Italians, according to other Europeans, simply could not (and [...]
A husband too far
Birthdays feed on ghosts. Sifting through an antique chest I come upon the 86-page manuscript of a play written by [...]
Too deep
When Alfredo Rampi was trapped in a well near Rome in June 1981, Italy came to a halt.
Rome: Not with a bang but a whimper
What, you ask, is it like to live in a diminished Rome in which a disruptively contagious virus has been [...]
Memex to the present
Personality cults may be dead, but there's a new tyranny — that of the "I" — and it matters.
Robin Williams
The alien within us has limits, at least when hundreds of personalities vie for attention.
Devil’s advocate
Vladimir Putin may be a barbarian to the West, but his Crimea move wasn't premeditated.
Author
Christopher P. Winner
Paris-born Christopher P. Winner began his long journalistic career as sports editor of the now-defunct Rome Daily American in 1975.