Tag: personal essays

When my home burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires last January, I felt bereft of not just my belongings ...

It was after midnight on the icy slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. A frigid wind sliced across my cheeks as I ...

Ten years ago, I left Italy with a suitcase full of olive oil and tears streaming down my face, and ...

That first gloomy evening, roving the city with no reservations, we had dinner at a nondescript dine-in bakery. We couldn’t ...

It was a late fall afternoon when I arrived in Contrada Noce. I stood on the tiled veranda of the ...

To this day, few things help me slip into sleep. When I was younger, though, my father came to the ...

Near the beginning of the 1999 movie Notting Hill, the character of bookseller William Thacker (Hugh Grant) spins round a ...

Sunset descends like a dream in Kenya’s Lamu archipelago: Each evening, the channel separating the islands of Manda and Lamu ...

I picked Mimi up from school on a Friday afternoon in June. In the pitch-dark dortoir, or nap room, I ...

Last summer, my dad was diagnosed with cancer. I’d just moved to Milan from Rome, where my family is based, ...