On a late summer day that sits like a hinge in the calendar, August 23 offers a startling diptych: a mountain that devoured cities and a machine that taught us to see our own. In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted with a ferocity that turned Pompeii and Herculaneum into time capsules of terror and tenderness, …
There’s something universal about a beach. You don’t have to speak the local language or even know the name of the town to recognize what happens when people gather at the edge of the sea. Children run barefoot, couples stroll with waves nipping at their ankles, friends spread towels across the sand, and before long, …
