Childhood
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A Madman’s Tale
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« I guess it all began, » he said, « because of that weak-headedness my father sometimes had. It just rubbed me the wrong way. »
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Carry The Prophet In Your Coat Pocket
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When you’re fifteen and you read Kahlil Gibran’s mystical bestseller for the first time.
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My untranslatable name
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When my parents went to register my name after I was born, they carried out an especially elaborate plan. They acquired a chocolate bar
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Let’s enjoy the moon
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Eight young women live in a college run by nuns in Rome; an excerpt from Alba de Céspedes’ There’s No Turning Back (Nessuno Torna Indietro).
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Miracle & yonder
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Paul Simon’s Graceland & country music’s global history. «The idea of anti-apartheid country music is counter-intuitive but profound.»
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The Barren Nothing-Place
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On growing up in the creases of bilingual versions of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
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Animal game
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A story about family. « ‘A woman of few words,’ he smiled. ‘How refreshing.’ »
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Doom is in the details
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Floods, hailstorms, plague, fire, children lost on a mountain or trapped for years in a ruined villa. On the stories of Adalbert Stifter.
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The pulverization of memory
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Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.
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No man’s land
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On Edda Mussolini & fashionable fascism. Can a woman be dangerous yet powerless?