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A Quietly Subversive Novel About Renewal on the Italian Riviera
Recognizing oneself as one really is and not as one appears to others is the major theme of Elizabeth von Arnim’s work. Von Arnim, an Australian brought up in...
A Thrilling Italian American Joint Points Backward and Forward
JR & Son is a new-old establishment that conjures the past while deliciously disrupting expectations. Source link
Richard Price’s Street Life
When I arrived at the novelist Richard Price’s five-story, nineteenth-century brownstone, in East Harlem, in December, the doorbell was broken. Price and his wife, the writer Lorraine Adams, had...
Sink or Swim
He was surprised by what he found in California: “I guess in your imagination you see four or five people wandering around, where in reality it’s piles, crowds of...
Far-Flung Local Gems
In the spirit of summer travel, we’ve asked some of our writers living outside New York City to share a few of their favorite local spots. Read Lauren Collins...
The Tragedy of the Diddy Trial
Sean Combs mouthed “thank you” to the jurors, his hands clasped in prayer. The intricacies of their deliberations will be revealed later on, in the requisite television interviews, but,...
“Dedication,” by Karan Mahajan
“After my father stopped breathing, God bless his memory, I covered his body up in blankets—and kept studying.” Source link
Lorde Strips Down to Start Over
Lorde is contemporary pop’s greatest demystifier, and also its greatest mystic. This contradiction has animated her music from the beginning. “We aren’t caught up in your love affair,” she...
Curzio Malaparte’s Shock Tactics
“You’re a born Fascist, one of the authentic ones,” the Italian writer Piero Gobetti wrote to his friend Curzio Malaparte in 1925, three years into Mussolini’s dictatorship. Gobetti, twenty-four...
Donald Trump, Zohran Mamdani, and Posting as Politics
On June 24, at 6:50 A.M., Donald Trump posted a message on Truth Social that might otherwise have been reserved for a diplomatic cable or at least a highly...
