Category: Letter

They eat the city, but they do not feed it. —Local official   Dear H,   What is it about the word Partition? Singularly clean and tidy. Surgical even, for an event that undammed tides of blood, changing what may have...

Dear H,   At the end of January, two hundred new students arrived for the spring semester at NYU Florence, and another hundred were continuing from the fall semester. We held orientation sessions in the ballroom of Villa La...

As I write in the second week of April, the coronavirus pandemic has swept aside virtually every other topic not only from the media, but from daily life and domestic chat. The government has taken powers to control our...

Dear H,   On the third Wednesday in January, the last Wednesday before the lunar Chinese New Year, the city of Wuhan, with eleven million people, was placed under quarantine with flights and trains to the city all canceled...