I first read Pnin as a teenager. It was my father’s recommendation that I start exploring the scintillating world of Vladimir Nabokov’s novels with this […] Read More
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Last summer we went to Benin in West Africa to visit our French friends who have moved there for their work — they are malaria […] Read More
Last time Flo evoked her Italian American father. Now she talks about the role her Italian heritage has played in her own existence. How it […] Read More
Ending up talking to someone in a call center, half a world away, about a lost package or a flight cancellation, is as trivial an […] Read More
We are back from our first trip to France in two years. We caught up with our family and with our friends; with urban France […] Read More
Last week was the first time I traveled to New York in nearly a year and a half, due to the pandemic. The main purpose […] Read More
It happened to me fairly often when I lived in New York. I would spot two or more people from a distance, walking on a […] Read More
Sometime at the very end of the 20th century I moved from Geneva, Switzerland to Almaty, Kazakhstan. It was my first leap into the “far […] Read More
I have lived long enough in the United States to know for a fact that Americanness is a many-faceted thing. Along with inspiring facets, disturbing […] Read More
This year Minette has become an amateur and eager practitioner of literal jokes. It all began when my friend Tomoko gave her an Amelia Bedelia […] Read More