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21 Sep
I first went to Capri when I was 6. A family friend lived on Via Tuoro, and we rented a modest house just above the Marina Piccola from Laetizia...
20 Sep
In 1902, one Otto Bierbaum, midway through his Grand Tour to Italy’s South, wrote, “A hotel, that is not a hotel, but offers every...
19 Sep
The towns and villages of the Amalfi Coast are strung like beads along one of the most remarkable chains in the world – the Amalfi Drive....
18 Sep
Caesar Augustus made his painful way toward the island of Capri, comforted by the sea air and the familiar shape of this coastline he knew and...
14 Sep
On Thursday I will be leaving on a ten-day whirlwind trip to Italy, a country I know well. My Father’s sister married a Sienese. We...
7 Sep
Everyone is talking about the pocket store Monocle has opened in Manhattan’s West Village with its carefully (and, thus far, sparsely)...
4 Sep
The Ace Hotel on West 29th Street is all the buzz..indeed, the lobby at any time of day or night looks like a version of Apple’s Genius...
2 Sep
What happens when three of New York’s most beloved Italian-American restaurateurs team up with the founder of a gourmet food and wine market...
29 Aug
It’s a sign of my intellectual laziness – and equally of my savability, I think – that I am so captivated by Hitch-22: A...
27 Aug
It’s interesting how some great talents are born in the stillness of a moment rather than in the heaving passions we often hear about....
21 Aug
I spend some of my favorite days in a rural village in Uruguay. I have written about the special magic of Garzon before – how it manages...
20 Aug
Say the word, bridge, and what comes to mind? It might be a beautiful span like the one that links the Rhode Island mainland to Newport....
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