The Twenty-Three Days of the City of Alba
World traveling, wine loving tourists might be forgiven for not associating the famed, vine-covered hills of Piemonte, Italy, with savage, civil …
World traveling, wine loving tourists might be forgiven for not associating the famed, vine-covered hills of Piemonte, Italy, with savage, civil …
Paolo Giordano, an Italian particle physicist and author of several acclaimed novels treats us to his latest, in Anne Milano …
Some writers are masters of the short story, others won’t touch them with a ten-foot pen; some readers graze on them …
Horacio Castellanos Moya was born in Honduras (1957), grew up in El Salvador, went into exile in Mexico and now teaches …
That British, French and German soldiers fought and died in their millions on the Western Front in WW I is …
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve been re-reading this justly famous novel …
The best way to get a city, for me, is to put away the maps and follow promising promenades and …
I bought Night train From Prague by Cheryl Harlick to read on my own night train to Prague, thinking it would be …
On my way down to spend a week in the Mojave desert I queued up Edward Abby‘s Desert Solitaire on …