Gabriela & Graciela: Two Lovers in Paraty, Brasil
by David Adair If you’ve ever felt the peculiar desire to be slowly tortured by excruciating and seductive beauty, then take the four-hour Costa Verde bus ride from Rio de…
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James Dickey’s Leesburg: The House of Deliverance
by Mac Carey The small historic town of Leesburg Virginia certainly doesn’t bring forth my atavistic desires and primordial rage, even less so does the stately Glenfiddich house, situated in…
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A Murakami-esque Day: Banalities & Absurdities in Beijing
by Sarah Menkedick “Memory is like fiction; or else it’s fiction that’s like memory.” – Haruki Murakami, “The Last Lawn of the Afternoon,” The Elephant Vanishes It was on the…
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A Protester in China: The Life of Lu Xun
by James L. Secor Despite the nouveau rich careening madly around town in their upscale imported cars and SUVs, Shaoxing, China still retains much of its slow, gentle character. The…
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Ode to the Australian Outback through Dorothea McKellar
by Ellen & David Hill At Davy Byrne’s pub in Dublin, Leopold Bloom famously lunches on a cheese sandwich and glass of wine in the groundbreaking novel Ulysses. The closest…
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A ‘Moral Pub’ Crawl Through James Joyce’s Dublin
by Mike Karnes The sun casts shadows on the marble bar, its sheen worn dull by 120 years of greasy palms and frothy brew. Denudation through inebriation. A glass tips. …
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Champagne & Sheep: A Poetic Tour of Wales
by Norm Goldstein Sir Thomas More, asking about the medallion with a red dragon worn by Richard Rich, was told it was for Wales. “For Wales?” he responds. “Why, Richard,…
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Curious George: From Nazi Germany to Bucolic New Hampshire
by Andrea Calabretta Few readers realize that had it not been for the indefatigable will of his creators, Curious George would have never existed. The Reys, both German Jews, escaped…
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J.M. Coetzee’s Warring Cape Town
by Nicholas J. Klenske Perched on the tip of the African Continent, sandwiched between the crash of the Indian Ocean and the roll of the Atlantic, Cape Town exists in…
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Going Green: The Artists Inn Residence in Washington, D.C.
by Rae Bryant “And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” ~William Shakespeare Upon…
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