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Book Review: A Writer’s Paris by Eric Maisel
What if you could save up the money, take six months off, and live as a writer?
Read More »An American’s Uneasiness with the American Way
Life isn’t greener on the other side of the fence. It’s painfully clearer.
Read More »Book Review: The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
La France profonde, as it never was in the traditional histories: Breton sex torture and year-old bread.
Read More »No Place Like Home: Digging New York
You could live or work in this neighborhood your whole life and never know about the grisly things that happened here.
Read More »Driving Tips for the Driver’s Education-Impaired
It’s a no-brainer if you already know. It might save your brain if you don’t know.
Read More »The Line Between the Civilized and the Savage
The question of why oppressed populations aren’t more proactive when freed can be answered with the hurricane victim who looted bread.
Read More »Book Review: St Pancras Station by Simon Bradley
An odd little book, mostly an architectural history, but with some great snippets of social anecdote about one of the great train stations of Europe.
Read More »Book Review: Visions of Paradise edited by Bronwen Latimer
National Geographic reveals heaven on Earth.
Read More »Book Review: Don’t Go There! – The Travel Detective’s Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World by Peter Greenberg
Peter Greenberg's handy and useful compendium may help you decide where you don't want to go on your next trip.
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