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There is a point where the chronicle of the future crosses an ancient truth: no one can live well if it is left only too long. And when loneliness becomes stable, especially in old age, it stops being only an […]

There is something vaguely melancholic in looking for the traces of a community that was there and there is no more entirely. It is different to go to Astoria to look for Greece, where the white and blue flags are

Among the many texts that have had a significant impact on my way of understanding history, The cheese and worms, historical essay by Carlo Ginzburg, holds a high position. Originally the choice to read it was linked to a rather

No, I can’t get out of telling my version of this historic moment. When the Madison Square Garden exploded with joy for the return of the Knicks at the top of the NBA, a part of the city struggled to

There is a precise moment when New York seems to change pace. Walk down Fifth Avenue to Madison Square Park (one of my favorite corners of the city) and, suddenly, the road tightens, almost forces you to slow down. And

I’m talking about death while I’m alive and this is already a countersenso. Who established that death should be thought only when it happens? Who decided that it should be feared, “evitated”, kept far until the last moment? We human

Having an apartment in New York as the second home is going to become much more expensive. This is due to the new Pied-à-Terre Surcharge, an annual tax – in force since 1 July 2026 – intended for luxury residential

War is no longer only fought in occupied territories or in devastated cities. Today it also takes place in the screens that we see every day, inside the social feeds, immersed in that continuous sequence of content that fills our

To inaugurate the Condé M. Nast Galleries, next to the Great Hall of Met, the new Costume Art Exhibition of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, curated by Andrew Bolton whose central theme is

This time, instead of telling you a building, I present the man behind many of them: Emery Roth. When talking about a building in New York and you really want to understand its value, often it is not enough to