Walking Vienna
Vienna, the Imperial heart of the long lived Hapsburg dynasty (1278 to 1918,) unbreakable bulwark against the Ottoman advance, …
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Reading Vienna
In the quieter and cooler hours between visiting museums, decoding monuments, walking the hot wide avenues of Vienna I …
Croatian Nights — New Fiction from Croatia
My literary companion during 5 days in Croatia has been Croatian Nights a joint effort of 19 stories by Croatian and British …
Reading Prague
Prague, as every traveler will tell you, is a wonderful town, full of surprises and visual delights. It is full of improbable …
Night train From Prague — a Book Left Behind
I bought Night train From Prague by Cheryl Harlick to read on my own night train to Prague, thinking it would be …
Jumping Puddles and Onrushing Bikes in Amsterdam
It’s said that we travel to open our eyes, stretch our minds. I wouldn’t have thought this to include adjusting …
Canal Reading — In Amsterdam
The rain is pelting down as as I take my first steps around Amsterdam, the Venice of the North as some …
A Jail Break Against the Draft
On my way down to spend a week in the Mojave desert I queued up Edward Abby‘s Desert Solitaire on …
Thinking in Other Languages
As a translator of Spanish literature into English who early on felt he was a different person when speaking Spanish …
Redeployment – Stories From A War
Phil Klay’s slender volume of short fiction, coming from a 13 month tour in Iraq, delivers what we want from …
Books in Brief
A couple of books sliding past my eyes this week, the kind I would wish to read but know I …
Gabo, Gone
Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, …