Other Work by Christopher Winner
It’s nevicating!
Rome's one and only 20th-century blizzard struck in February 1986.
And the cradle will rock
Italy may want to be Europe's "good guy," but much stands in the way.
Morzica la coda
Despite rumors of change and rhetoric, Italy is masterful at standing pat.
Italy as Daley-town
Like Richard J. Daley in old Chicago, Silvio Berlusconi is a man with a machine.
Read all about it
The Rupert Murdoch scandal aside, media ethics have fallen into tatters.
The wolf and the lamb
The death of Osama Bin Laden is the culmination of his failures and those of his enemies.
Vermi d’inchiostro
Italo Calvino was a monk, a scribe, a transcriber of Gamma Rays.
Fred and Barney
When Muammar Qaddafi vanishes from the scene, despotism will lose plumage.
The Days of Abandonment
Few European writers do better than Ferrante in getting to the cold and snarling heart.
State of play
Sympathy for the devil helps assess what's occurring in the Middle East.
Flash and burn
The absence of leaders-in-waiting makes Middle Eastern dissent into much ado about rage alone.
Dissolute, resolute, in charge
If Berlusconi falls, what comes after? For now, more of the same.
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.