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The Alley of Writers. Photo by Farhodjon Chinberdiev / Unsplash.com
You see a lot from a train window, and after a few days of railing through Uzbekistan, I detected a nationwide fondness for ceram…
J. R. Patterson
Photo by kiwisoul / Stock.adobe.com In Almaty, people read everywhere, bookstores are plentiful, and the Kazakh language, engaged in a “lingual fracas” with Russian, is reasserting itself.…
Photo of Barcelona by ikuday / Stock.adobe.com My amada and I arrived in Barcelona from Paris. We saw from the start the two cities have much in common. Both went through architectural reorganizat…
Photo of Bordeaux, France by JackF / Stock.adobe.com In December 1801 the poet Friedrich Hölderlin accepted a position as tutor at the Bordeaux residence of German wine merchant Daniel Christoph M…
Photo by Reiseuhu and Katia De Juan / Unsplash.com Literature can change the way we celebrate. The bull-running and fighting of Spain’s San Fermin festival was just a local affair before Hemingway…
Photo by Jacob Boomsma / istockphoto.com In the Toronto airport, a young woman moved her bag from a seat so that someone might sit down. “You can sit here, eh. I’m from Brandon, in ‘Friendly Manit…
See something once, and you see it everywhere. In Quito’s old town it was geraniums: on the curly-whirly balconies, in the porticoes of the old baroque buildings, and the great open squares, there wer…
