Daniel Barenboim at La Scala
June 15, 2026Drama number three was the presence on the podium of Daniel Barenboim, the child prodigy born...
Notes From Italy: Some Old Envoys
June 13, 2026Counts who stank of garlic–as did the whole country–had sponged on him for seats in his...
The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
June 12, 2026This long, well documented book by Rick Atkinson is one of the best accounts of any...
Notes From Italy: The Oversized Embassy
June 12, 2026Nor, it seems, do Americans get out of their diplomatic fortress the way they used to....
Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
June 10, 2026The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south...
Notes From Italy: Running, Rome, and Red Brigades
June 7, 2026I knew what was coming but it was always a thrill. Suddenly to our left the...
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
June 4, 2026Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
Notes From Italy: Cimitero Acattolico
June 4, 2026In 1738 came the first burial by the Pyramid that we know of, that of a...
Notes From Italy: Dawn in the Suburra
June 3, 2026In early June, the best time in Rome is dawn. A little after first light the...
Notes From Italy: Sunday With the CAI
June 1, 2026This is not Labrador. We are fifty miles northeast of Rome and a mile above sea...




