Adrift in Sunlit Night
When searching St. Petersburg for the shadows of Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Pushkin, the best strategy may simply be to get lost
The Life Unlived
On W. G. Sebald and the uncertainties of time
The Phaedra Syndrome
Desire, denial, and the making of compelling TV
Eric Rohmer and Me
What a classic film from the French new wave taught me about the illusions of my youth
Intimacy
Revisiting the gritty Roman neighborhood of his youth, a writer discovers a world of his own invention