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The American Magazine | In Italia The American | InItalia is an independent general interest online magazine produced in Rome, Italy. and UK.

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.

The essays on the magazine come up here automatically, but still, I'd like to draw your attention to two new pieces. On...
05/04/2025

The essays on the magazine come up here automatically, but still, I'd like to draw your attention to two new pieces. One, by Christopher Winner, about the tariffs imposed by President Trump, and the other, by Steve Piazza, is a review of the documentary film "No Other Land."

https://theamericanmag.com/cutting-the-first-stone/
https://theamericanmag.com/film-no-other-land/

A film cannot, of itself, save the world. But sometimes a film can go a long way in holding the world together. At the very least, the making of such a film can provide hope for those making it. As the people of the occupied West Bank have attempted to defend their land for generations against

A film cannot, of itself, save the world. But sometimes a film can go a long way in holding the world together. At the v...
04/04/2025

A film cannot, of itself, save the world. But sometimes a film can go a long way in holding the world together. At the very least, the making of such a film can provide hope for those making it. As the people of the occupied West Bank have attempted to defend their land for generations against Israeli development, getting the message out to the world has become vital to their struggle....

A film cannot, of itself, save the world. But sometimes a film can go a long way in holding the world together. At the very least, the making of such a film can provide hope for those making it. As the people of the occupied West Bank have attempted to defend their land for generations against

Playing Borgia pope has always come easily to child of money Donald J. Trump, who expects deference if not reverence, ti...
04/04/2025

Playing Borgia pope has always come easily to child of money Donald J. Trump, who expects deference if not reverence, tithes, and gilded tax breaks for himself in return....

It was coming. It was always coming for those who chose to see it. In New York City was a massively arrogant real estate developer with gold-gilded ambitions as determined as they were ostentatious. He could be president, he confided to friends. Why not? But he would no more say this in public than....

I remember food, or I think I do. Tastes of raspberries in Wales, picked fresh that morning on the farm near our little ...
01/04/2025

I remember food, or I think I do. Tastes of raspberries in Wales, picked fresh that morning on the farm near our little rental cottage and left with a sign, "Take what you need and leave the money here" next to a little cardboard box. I remember my first taste of oysters (doesn't everyone who encounters that odd little puddle of the sea in a shell?) and asparagus (my mother masked it with hollandaise and we children were won over to vegetables) and what I took to be, long ago, grilled dog livers on skewers in Piraeus served with hot mustard....

I remember food, or I think I do. Tastes of raspberries in Wales, picked fresh that morning on the farm near our little rental cottage and left with a sign, "Take what you need and leave the money here" next to a little cardboard box.

Although she has become a doctoral candidate — the penultimate stepping stone to a Ph.D. — Kristine Crane ponders whethe...
30/03/2025

Although she has become a doctoral candidate — the penultimate stepping stone to a Ph.D. — Kristine Crane ponders whether a M.D. degree might still be in the cards....

In mid-January, I became a doctoral candidate. Formally, this means that I passed the dissertation proposal, plus the qualifying exams on material that informs the dissertation. Informally, candidacy is an even bigger deal to many people than becoming a doctor: The research that follows is the “fu...

My mom thinks time stopped when I took that plane. But it hasn’t. I’m closer to my mid-twenties than to my teenage years...
29/03/2025

My mom thinks time stopped when I took that plane. But it hasn’t. I’m closer to my mid-twenties than to my teenage years. I’ve made sacrifices along the way, and now, I’m building the life I once dreamed of as a little girl. I’m living la dolce vita — with everything that comes with it. Coffee is a must in my sweet breakfasts....

My mom thinks time stopped when I took that plane. But it hasn’t. I’m closer to my mid-twenties than to my teenage years. I’ve made sacrifices along the way, and now, I’m building the life I once dreamed of as a little girl. I’m living la dolce

Views are like faces I have gotten to know over the years. Living in the region of the Normandie Bocage, hedged farmlan...
28/03/2025

Views are like faces I have gotten to know over the years. Living in the region of the Normandie Bocage, hedged farmland or mixed woodland and pasture, since 2008, I have walked past the same places and the same scenes so many times that they’ve become as familiar as neighbors. Walking my son to up the hill to the village school, we’ve stood hand in hand and looked at the pasture which lies at the crest of the bend in this road....

Views are like faces I have gotten to know over the years. Living in the region of the Normandie Bocage, hedged farmland or mixed woodland and pasture, since 2008, I have walked past the same places and the same scenes so many times that they’ve become as familiar as neighbors. Walking my son to u...

Associate Editor Madeleine Johnson suggests that, perhaps, if people had read and paid more attention to nursery stories...
28/03/2025

Associate Editor Madeleine Johnson suggests that, perhaps, if people had read and paid more attention to nursery stories, such as Aesop's Fables, they would be better equipped as citizens....

Anyone — parents, teachers, policy-makers — who has kept up with the changes U.S. education in the last decade will have noticed the obsession with STEM: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. STEM was promoted as the cure for everything — everything from rising Chinese power to po...

For those who believe history is cyclical and teaches that warlike periods cannot be averted, even in ostensibly enlight...
28/03/2025

For those who believe history is cyclical and teaches that warlike periods cannot be averted, even in ostensibly enlightened times, here is cake and icing. This stage of this century is fast turning into a conjuring of most of the nineteenth century and part of the twentieth, a reality that bodes ill among the sane, whose numbers may well be decreasing in times seemingly at peace with colonial-style bullying....

For those who believe history is cyclical and teaches that warlike periods cannot be averted, even in ostensibly enlightened times, here is cake and icing. This stage of this century is fast turning into a conjuring of most of the nineteenth

Voices have the power to enlighten, allure, and enrapture. Christopher Winner explores writing as music, through the med...
24/03/2025

Voices have the power to enlighten, allure, and enrapture. Christopher Winner explores writing as music, through the medium of audiobooks and their various readers....

To revel in the words of a good author is like taking in the aroma of fresh coffee. Instantly, the timbre and flow wed you to the narrative, your mind’s appetite whetted, and even before the book’s end leave you craving more. You make a mental note of the

We are spotted as natives, most likely because we are not burdened by backpacks and we don’t stare dumbly into cellphone...
23/03/2025

We are spotted as natives, most likely because we are not burdened by backpacks and we don’t stare dumbly into cellphones at busy street intersections. This means that we are asked directions. . . . usually to the Golden Gate Bridge. “Go west, young man, and stop at water’s edge. You can’t miss it.” Jogging is popular here. “Can you direct me to a store called The Runner’s Mind?” inquired one sweat-drenched stumblebum....

We are spotted as natives, most likely because we are not burdened by backpacks and we don’t stare dumbly into cellphones at busy street intersections. This means that we are asked directions. . . . usually to the Golden Gate Bridge. “Go west, young man, and stop at water’s edge. You can’t m...

Although in America, winter officially starts on December 21st, the feeling of winter often begins in October, when the ...
21/03/2025

Although in America, winter officially starts on December 21st, the feeling of winter often begins in October, when the skies become darker and the wind becomes wild. Just in case spring sees you missing winter's benefits, here are nine photographs that tell the story of my experience of winter in New York over the past few months....

Although in America, winter officially starts on December 21st, the feeling of winter often begins in October, when the skies become darker and the wind becomes wild. Just in case spring sees you missing winter's benefits, here are nine photographs that tell the story of my experience of winter in N...

Sports writer Joseph Karbousky, like American Major League Baseball in 2025, makes his debut, contending that the Bronx ...
17/03/2025

Sports writer Joseph Karbousky, like American Major League Baseball in 2025, makes his debut, contending that the Bronx Bombers and Shohei Ohtani's Los Angeles Dodgers look to dominate this season....

I’ve been a sports fan seemingly since birth, but American Major League Baseball has always been my favorite. Whether it’s a spring training game or Game 7 of the World Series, baseball keeps me on the edge of my seat, at home or in the stands. Although my

Take a metaphorical jaunt around the globe with author, travel writer, and former syndicated columnist Jane Lasky, who d...
08/03/2025

Take a metaphorical jaunt around the globe with author, travel writer, and former syndicated columnist Jane Lasky, who debuts with her origin story....

When I told my mom I wanted to be a foreign correspondent, she said, "You might get into dangerous situations," and so I changed my mind, and then and there vowed to become a travel writer. I was 12. Fulfilling that goal, however, was not simple. There was a long, winding road involved. During the s...

President Donald Trump's nasty dressing-down of his Ukrainian counterpart may owe at least some of its origin to a man n...
04/03/2025

President Donald Trump's nasty dressing-down of his Ukrainian counterpart may owe at least some of its origin to a man not even in the room, former President Joe Biden....

Contrary to many commentaries, the poisonous diatribe directed by American President Donald Trump to his Ukrainian counterpart did not materialize simply because Trump is a bully who treats the White House like a board room in which he can play pitiless CEO. No. Rarely is the act of vindictiveness t...

Compared with other games, chess is rather staid. But even chess has some drama. The latest scandal in the chess world h...
01/03/2025

Compared with other games, chess is rather staid. But even chess has some drama. The latest scandal in the chess world has to do with the International Chess Federation (FIDE) dress code. Magnus Carlsen, a renowned thirty-four-year-old chess player, was seen wearing blue jeans at the 2024 World Rapid Chess Championship/World Blitz Championship in New York. He walked out, uttering profanities about FIDE's dress code, which requires proper trousers....

Compared with other games, chess is rather staid. But even chess has some drama. The latest scandal in the chess world has to do with the International Chess Federation (FIDE) dress code. Magnus Carlsen, a renowned thirty-four-year-old chess player, was seen wearing blue jeans at the 2024 World Rapi...

On the morning of my son’s tenth birthday, we rose early to catch the first train to Paris, just over a two-hour ride, w...
27/02/2025

On the morning of my son’s tenth birthday, we rose early to catch the first train to Paris, just over a two-hour ride, where we were to collect and bring home the birthday present of a lifetime! As we pulled in slowly along the platform of Gare Montparnasse, we saw her — the splendid, fawn-colored Chienne Creole — or Caribbean street dog (also referred to throughout the English-speaking islands as a Potcake)....

On the morning of my son’s tenth birthday, we rose early to catch the first train to Paris, just over a two-hour ride, where we were to collect and bring home the birthday present of a lifetime! As we pulled in slowly along the platform of Gare Montparnasse, we saw her —

An addiction to chaos, empty boasts, and revenge guides the hand of America's once and future ruler, Donald Trump—in thi...
26/02/2025

An addiction to chaos, empty boasts, and revenge guides the hand of America's once and future ruler, Donald Trump—in this, he is not alone among world leaders....

The postwar world order is definitively over, at least in the West. Donald Trump and his minions of upheavalists — a new word for a raw time — are busy ripping apart alliances that have held for eighty years. You are on your own,

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