“No, we can’t do it with a military airplane because the commander of the base says he doesn’t want trouble, but I think I found a solution. It’s risky, but so is your situation.”“Explain…

He knows that every published book is an imperfect representation of the book one imagined writing, its final shape determined by painful exclusions, second thoughts, and corrections that mercilessly…

There are no heroes in the city. Nor in the country. This is the problem that modern women face. Our men don’t go to war, and if they did it would be out of stupidity or irresponsibility. Even so,…

The President Has Mystical Visions.” This was the headline in the Heraldo. Mr. Camargo had been convinced that the Heraldo, his newspaper’s rival, would not publish a single word about the…

The kid who sells roasted chestnuts at the end of the Ponte Garibaldi gets down to work. He sits in a groove in the parapet of the bridge with a small stove between his legs, looking no one in the face,…