Shakespeare in Boston
Boston Public Library aims to cut through 400 years of literary analysis and explore the pages of Shakespeare’s original writings, including some of his most famous works. The Boston Public Library…
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Paris and All That Jazz
While Fitzgerald’s haunts have certainly evolved over the years, and some have disappeared altogether, visitors to Paris can still relive the old-fashioned glamor of Fitzgerald’s Paris. It requires imagination, champagne,…
Recollections of Home
The woman looked at me when she finished reading, smiling, expecting me to compliment her English. But I couldn’t speak, moved beyond words by a sense of homecoming in this…
Water and Wanting
Writing about a water shortage is handy for a writer like me who loves, when reading, to be swept away in plot but whose characters seem to prefer to sit…
Basin Street Blues
Jami Attenberg schools Travel and Leisure on the nuance of New Orleans, noting that “for a boisterous city, New Orleans can be awfully quiet when you need it to be.”