PRAGUE — As I walked down Avenue René Coty on a sunny day in late May, everything was like a Paris postcard — except that my glasses were fogging up over my facemask. But I knew the ...
SAINT-BLIMONT — Two years ago, my partner and I set off across Europe in our campervan. We called it Foxy — and it was our home on wheels and ticket to freedom. In France, they still call ...
-Essay- MEXICO CITY — I notice some are still touching surfaces, grabbing a pole to hold onto on the bus or the handrails on escalators. With reckless abandon. For me, no sniffle nor sneeze ...
Our writer finds the destruction of the natural world, and his own money problems, far more distr...
VAL D'ARAN — It wasn't until I'd made may way clear through to other side of the village that I finally crossed paths with another human: A man about my age returning from a walk in the hills ...
MONTE CASTELLO DI VIBIO — "Sei la figlia di Satana! Gesù non ti ama!" It was 1989 and I was 8 years old — and my teacher was screaming at me in front of my classmates, telling me I was ...
No, no...not one of *those Yankees! But this lifelong American baseball fan (Milwaukee Brewers wa...
Shifting questions of belonging and identity in the shadow of Brexit and EU elections.
A Colombian-American deals with different misconceptions in different parts of the world. Ask him...
A nation became so attached to a nasty word that it has lost some of its edge, but not all of it.
Three Colombians ended up in Atena Lucana, Italy, instead of Atenas, Greece.
From Madrid to Cork to Shanghai, some of the most revered old bookshops are closing doors as they...
NAPLES — It was the last game of 2018, and I was looking forward to it. I had planned to go with my brother, a staunch Napoli fan, my soccer-loving Argentine husband and a bunch of old ...
The author of "Infinite Jest" and "The Pale King", who took his own life 10 years ago, saw a high...
PARIS — Soon after arriving in Boston for my university studies, I began to notice people in wheelchairs and others with physical disabilities struggling to use the city's public ...
-Essay- PARIS — This is not news, but dating today is a completely different animal than it was even five years ago, as new apps keep arriving to create "matches" between people online who ...
-Essay- PARIS — Growing up in Northern California, acts of public protest were never far away. It felt perfectly natural for me to join fellow students in the annual "Day of Silence," ...
-Essay- "Germans are coconuts, Americans peaches..." In the German Studies department at the University of Michigan, this saying bounced around as a shorthand way for us to describe the ...
-Essay- When you're living abroad, Thanksgiving can sneak up on you. So when my dad sent me a message Wednesday night — "About to run my last errand for Mom (hopefully)" — I had ...
A young American in Paris watches Trump in Las Vegas, in the shadow of Obama and Orlando — an...
Historically for Madrid, there is no such thing as delicate diplomacy. But that approach has boom...
