My husband and I were in Tivoli, and we went to the gardens at Villa d’Este. He’d been to Italy before, but it was my first trip. There were rails in front of the fountains because the water was so polluted, they wanted to keep you from being splashed.
Anecdotes
Ann Beattie
Second Dispatches from Ambassador to Brazil, Earth 
After the Fact
Propagandalands
In 2015, Peter Pomerantsev went to Donbas, Ukraine, to investigate war-zone propaganda
Travels in Pornland
Andrea Stuart explores the divide between mainstream and feminist porn
Going Diamond
Sarah Gerard on life in one of America's more unconventional cults
Violence in Blue
Patrick Ball measures the undocumented police killings in the United States
Kettle Holes
Melissa Febos on the origins of her interest in dominating men
