italian air force over the hudson river in nyc coming to invade after finding out about pineapple on pizza

Con la scomparsa di Alain Delon se ne va un immenso attore, con un talento unico che ha illuminato capolavori della grande epoca del cinema italo-francese, come il Gattopardo, o Rocco e i suoi fratelli di Visconti. Pensieri a tutti i suoi cari. Che la terra gli sia lieve.

🇮🇹 Alessandro Giuli, director of Rome's Maxxi Museum, is Italy's new culture minister, replacing Gennaro Sangiuliano, who left after a melodramatic scandaletto. I interviewed both for this tour d'horizon of culture under PM Georgia Meloni. The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Without expectations, fears, or hopes, Czesław Miłosz, tr. the poet & Robert Hass

A reminder that we may not know election results tomorrow night and the results may ebb, flow and change direction as more votes are counted. All of this is okay--counting millions of votes takes time, votes come in in different ways, and it's important to get it right.

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🇫🇷 The first Mass in a gorgeously restored Notre Dame is underway this morning. For more on church and state in France, here is my laïcité deep dive for The Atlantic theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

🇫🇷 Closing out the year with one more for The New York Review of Books — on Paris, city of revolutions past and perhaps future, city of rich and poor, city of attacks and survivors. Books by Cole Stangler @colestangler.bsky.social, Simon Kuper, @JustinienT, Emmanuel Carrère, Éric Hazan nybooks.com/articles/2025/…

🇫🇷 Paris is an exquisite city full of exquisite complainers, forever beset by a pervasive sense that things are terrible or dirtier or somehow worse than they used to be, when things are not, in fact, terrible or dirtier or worse. My latest The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/articles/2025/…

🇫🇷📚 Sign up live or zoom for these great events at the The American Library in Paris! Jan 8 Rachel Kushner in convo w/me Jan 14 Meghan O'Rourke w/Clémentine Goldszal Jan 15 Claire Messud w/Dan Gunn Jan 22 Melissa Febos wkshop Jan 29 Maylis de Kerangal w/Donatien Grau americanlibraryinparis.org/for-adults/cal…

🇫🇷 Ten years ago this week, terrorists struck Charlie Hebdo and France entered an annus horribilus. Today these scars have become part of Paris' cityscape. My latest for The New York Review of Books: nybooks.com/articles/2025/…

🇫🇷📚 Join us at the American Library in Paris Tuesday, Jan 14 for Meghan O'Rourke on THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: REIMAGINING CHRONIC ILLNESS — in conversation with Clémentine Goldszal Meghan O'Rourke meghanor.bsky.social @Clemgold The American Library in Paris Sign up in person or on Zoom! americanlibraryinparis.org/event/orourke2…

Today is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In 2015, I visited Auschwitz and wrote about the moral and practical challenges of preserving the death camp. New York Times Arts nytimes.com/2015/04/16/art…

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Come find me @racheldonadio.bsky.social ! 👋