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The American is an online magazine featuring essays and first-person pieces about life in Italy and Europe. It also publishes general interest columns by writers based in other countries, including the U.S.

In the poker game of psychological warfare on which terrorism depends, the September 11 plotters cleaned out the house. ...
02/01/2025

In the poker game of psychological warfare on which terrorism depends, the September 11 plotters cleaned out the house. In attacks greater than the human imagination could fathom, the kamikaze terrorists enslaved an entire population (the world also), with images of destruction and horror that would soon come to unhinge all who saw them, and they were incessantly repeated. This in turn created a kind of collective post-traumatic stress disorder, for the terrorists a masterstroke come true....

In the poker game of psychological warfare on which terrorism depends, the September 11 plotters cleaned out the house. In attacks greater than the human imagination could fathom, the kamikaze terrorists enslaved an entire population (the world also), with images of destruction and horror

Originally published in 2007 and praised for its layered, Kafkaesque surrealism, The Vegetarian by Han Kang received the...
31/12/2024

Originally published in 2007 and praised for its layered, Kafkaesque surrealism, The Vegetarian by Han Kang received the 2016 Man Booker International Prize the year after it was translated into English from Korean by Deborah Smith. Kang was the first Asian woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 2024. Needless to say, her work has rallied readers and, in the process, won well-deserved acclaim....

Originally published in 2007 and praised for its layered, Kafkaesque surrealism, The Vegetarian by Han Kang received the 2016 Man Booker International Prize the year after it was translated into English from Korean by Deborah Smith. Kang was the first Asian woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Liter...

Life is a dot-to-dot. After graduating from an East Coast university in 1987 where I studied journalism, I found myself ...
30/12/2024

Life is a dot-to-dot. After graduating from an East Coast university in 1987 where I studied journalism, I found myself moving to a far-flung pinpoint on the U.S. map, the town of Cody, Wyoming, some 50 miles from the eastern border of Yellowstone Park. It was here that I had secured an internship on a bi-weekly local newspaper called The Cody Enterprise....

Life is a dot-to-dot. After graduating from an East Coast university in 1987 where I studied journalism, I found myself moving to a far-flung pinpoint on the U.S. map, the town of Cody, Wyoming, some 50 miles from the

You may consider the Christmas season a time of fun, and while most Christmas traditions are sweet, especially the ones ...
28/12/2024

You may consider the Christmas season a time of fun, and while most Christmas traditions are sweet, especially the ones for little children, like sipping hot chocolate in pajamas while watching Disney movies, there is one tradition in the mountains of northeast Italy which is reserved exclusively for the naughtiest of naughty little kids. The night of the Krampus. According to legend, one day early in December, a figure half-goat, half-demon arrives....

You may consider the Christmas season a time of fun, and while most Christmas traditions are sweet, especially the ones for little children, like sipping hot chocolate in pajamas while watching Disney movies, there is one tradition in the mountains of northeast Italy which is reserved exclusively fo...

Billiards, or the game of pool, is a matter of utmost seriousness, and so young Jesuit ascetics in San Francisco do not ...
28/12/2024

Billiards, or the game of pool, is a matter of utmost seriousness, and so young Jesuit ascetics in San Francisco do not consider a Christmas spent in the pool hall to be wasted time....

Nestled between a cannabis dispensary and a Celtic dive bar in a particularly seedy corner of San Francisco’s culturally diverse Richmond District is Family Billiards, which first opened its doors in 1966. Although it is widely known for hosting touring professionals who compete year-round in glob...

Medical advice for a devastating illness turns spiritual in the world's most pagan Catholic city....
24/12/2024

Medical advice for a devastating illness turns spiritual in the world's most pagan Catholic city....

Italy long ago backed away from Catholicism as its state religion, but the faith remains fundamentally important, even in the practice of medicine. And Italian medical culture can differ so dramatically from that which is standard in Anglo-Saxon nations as to seem a universe apart. Take my own case....

In Walden, Henry David Thoreau writes “If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious de...
23/12/2024

In Walden, Henry David Thoreau writes “If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” While this could be taken as a precaution against solicitors of all kinds, it implies a deeper meaning, that one’s own inner truth requires guarding from those who would displace it....

In Walden, Henry David Thoreau writes “If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” While this could be taken as a precaution against solicitors of all kinds, it implies a deeper meaning, that one’s own

I was never a “bah humbug” kind of person. I can string colored popcorn along with the best, and carol with joy even at ...
22/12/2024

I was never a “bah humbug” kind of person. I can string colored popcorn along with the best, and carol with joy even at Bocelli’s oor. I know how to make ornaments out of pine cones and rag dolls out of scraps and can turn out sugar cookies faster than you can say adeste fidelis. But things have changed....

I was never a “bah humbug” kind of person. I can string colored popcorn along with the best, and carol with joy even at Bocelli’s oor. I know how to make ornaments out of pine cones and rag dolls out of scraps and can turn out sugar cookies faster than you can say adeste fidelis.

One of the most durable phrases in the Pentagon’s Vietnam War–era arsenal of euphemisms consisted of two words, protecti...
17/12/2024

One of the most durable phrases in the Pentagon’s Vietnam War–era arsenal of euphemisms consisted of two words, protective reaction. A “protective reaction” was any action, including air strikes, the spreading of na**lm and chemical defoliants, or the razing of a village by American ground troops, that could legitimately — in Pentagon eyes — be considered necessary to “protect” the military interests of the United States....

One of the most durable phrases in the Pentagon’s Vietnam War–era arsenal of euphemisms consisted of two words, protective reaction. A “protective reaction” was any action, including air strikes, the spreading of na**lm and chemical defoliants, or the razing of a village by American ground t...

As columnist Eleonara Saravalle knows from her own personal experience, being an actress often means standing at street ...
16/12/2024

As columnist Eleonara Saravalle knows from her own personal experience, being an actress often means standing at street corners, dispensing flyers, hoping someone will come to the show....

I remember standing on a corner in Edinburgh handing out flyers for my one-woman show, hoping people would take these damp pieces of paper, while I stumbled over my pitch. That they might accept my silly little advertisement and, for whatever reason, actually read it and let themselves be intrigued....

In pondering dichotomies of class, social circle, and background, has Mia Levy “found a way to live to the side of my na...
10/12/2024

In pondering dichotomies of class, social circle, and background, has Mia Levy “found a way to live to the side of my name,” as described by philosopher Judith Butler?...

I’ve started to think more deeply about what identity comprises. For me, it is made up of many things: one’s spirituality and faith, social circle, upbringing, and background. Recently, though, I’ve started to question class and what meaning it holds for me. In my university courses in sociolo...

In this new column, "About That Book," Gabrielle Giannone reflects on Italian author Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Frie...
30/11/2024

In this new column, "About That Book," Gabrielle Giannone reflects on Italian author Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend," a book that has won much praise for its mystery author, who sets much of her fictional work in Naples and the Italian South....

Recently ranked number one on the "The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century" by "The New York Times Book Review," Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, or, to give it its Italian title, L'amica geniale, has gained spirited recognition in the literary world since its publication in 2011, and its subs...

I was bitten by the blacksmithing bug late in my twenties. It was during a visit to a lovingly restored blacksmith shop ...
27/11/2024

I was bitten by the blacksmithing bug late in my twenties. It was during a visit to a lovingly restored blacksmith shop in Bethlehem, Connecticut, where I first swung a hammer at the anvil, a coal fire crackling at my side. And I was hooked. In following decades, smithing became a serious hobby. I attended conferences and classes whenever possible, and travelled to different blacksmith shops in order to learn the craft, and discovered an extended family in the blacksmith community....

I was bitten by the blacksmithing bug late in my twenties. It was during a visit to a lovingly restored blacksmith shop in Bethlehem, Connecticut, where I first swung a hammer at the anvil, a coal fire crackling at my side. And I was hooked. In following decades, smithing became a serious hobby. I a...

Every time I go to the doctor and have to fill out my medical history, one question gives me pause: Have you ever been a...
27/11/2024

Every time I go to the doctor and have to fill out my medical history, one question gives me pause: Have you ever been a smoker? I usually look around the waiting room, furtively, as if making sure that no one will catch me in the lie that I am about to tell: No. In reality, I smoked so little, and it was so long ago, that my little white lie probably has no real bearing on any of my current medical assessments....

Every time I go to the doctor and have to fill out my medical history, one question gives me pause: Have you ever been a smoker? I usually look around the waiting room, furtively, as if making sure that no one will catch me in the lie that I am about to tell: No. In reality,

My father had a favorite phrase when coming upon people and situations that defied all common sense. “Cloud cuckoo land,...
27/11/2024

My father had a favorite phrase when coming upon people and situations that defied all common sense. “Cloud cuckoo land,” he’d say, nostrils arched upward in anger, usually looking up from a newspaper or listening to a television news report. I think of him and of his phrase often these days, which seem at times to honor both clouds and their cuckoos....

My father had a favorite phrase when coming upon people and situations that defied all common sense. “Cloud cuckoo land,” he’d say, nostrils arched upward in anger, usually looking up from a newspaper or listening to a television news report. I think of him and of his phrase often these days, ...

Discrimination while apartment-hunting abroad leads to cross-cultural kinship between Colombian student Valentina Salced...
24/11/2024

Discrimination while apartment-hunting abroad leads to cross-cultural kinship between Colombian student Valentina Salcedo and Italian expats....

Until last year, I never thought Colombians and Italians had much in common. Then I met an Italian for the first time, in February 2023. I was in Málaga, Spain, on a desperate house hunt. I had arrived for an exchange program (Erasmus, as Europeans call it) and paid two months’ rent in advance. T...

The lame-duck Biden administration’s position toward embattled Ukraine is now cynically clear: provide that country with...
21/11/2024

The lame-duck Biden administration’s position toward embattled Ukraine is now cynically clear: provide that country with as much authorized military hardware as possible, so that it finds itself in a better strategic position to negotiate with Russia, should President-Elect Donald Trump persuade Vladimir Putin to give serious negotiations a go. Where, you rightly ask, is the cynicism, since Russia was the original aggressor and has now even enlisted North Korean soldiers to help it fight this war?...

The lame-duck Biden administration’s position toward embattled Ukraine is now cynically clear: provide that country with as much authorized military hardware as possible, so that it finds itself in a better strategic position to negotiate with Russia, should President-Elect Donald Trump persuade V...

Fall is haunting. The Hesperian depression can grab you before you've had a chance to turn on your lift-your-mood lights...
19/11/2024

Fall is haunting. The Hesperian depression can grab you before you've had a chance to turn on your lift-your-mood lights or find that little spot of sun in a piazza each day for your Vitamin D. But still, it is turkey month, and a past Thanksgiving is on my mind. I am thinking to myself, a self that, by the way, is more or less agnostic but also schizophrenic in that I, more and more, after having moved to Europe, give daily thanks for this or that without really knowing to whom I am speaking....

Fall is haunting. The Hesperian depression can grab you before you've had a chance to turn on your lift-your-mood lights or find that little spot of sun in a piazza each day for your Vitamin D. But still, it is turkey month, and a past Thanksgiving is on my mind. I am thinking to myself, a

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