Is it because my father always maintained that there were a few Greek corpuscles floating around in our Italian blood that I have long had a special affection for Greece?…
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Call me Ishmael. I’ve long nursed a desire to go to sea. But, alas, most of the sailing I’ve done is through the pages of the voyages of…
There’s a photograph that I can recall very vividly, although I haven’t seen it since I was a young boy. In it, my Uncle Nick Bianchi is standing in…
All novels have a bit of biography in them. But some are suspiciously very biographical. Samini Ali’s biographical information – a Muslim Indian woman raised in both India…
The true believer has a relatively easy time of it. Unshakable, uncompromising faith, buttressed by the congregation, and the authority of dogma, relieve the credulous of much heavy intellectual lifting.…
In a article in Harper’s several years ago Tom Wolfe argued that the reality that we see on the news every day was getting so bizarre and extreme that it was outstripping…
Morely Safer has always been my favorite 60 Minutes correspondent. It wasn’t just that taciturn expression, which seemed only to crack that craggy visage for a moment to display amusement or…
Even a hack jazz pianist like myself cannot go too long without sitting down to a keyboard and seeing what one can do with the chords and melody lone of…
As Chinese youth besiege the Japanese embassy in Beijing, venting their rage at the prospect that Japan might be admitted to the UN Security Council I can only wonder what…
After I had made several trips to China in different capacities an Asian friend commented that I was getting to be a “China hand.” There was more flattery that…