Gogol in Ukraine
By Irene Zabytko I’ve been to Ukraine many times, mostly to visit family and friends. But like most people in the world these days, it’s…
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The Feeling of Moher
By Savannah Barrow In The Symbolism of Poetry, W.B. Yeats writes: “All sounds, all colours, all forms, either because of their pre-ordained energies or because…
Alone in Namibia with Martha Gellhorn
By Piia Mustamäki “You are alone?” The young woman’s raised left eyebrow gave away her surprise. It was Christmas Day during a pandemic and I…
Literary Sites of New England
By Kevin Brown When most people think about visiting New England to explore literary sites, they think first of Boston. While Boston has some places…
Rushing to Berlin
By Lev Raphael On my first German book tour, I was so excited to be going that I didn’t think through the connections or the…
Sailing the Baltic with a Shakespearean Sensibility
By Maggie Hirt Sailing is filled with high highs and low lows just like William Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies. At different points of everyday, as…
Dobrogea – one of the richest yet overlooked regions of Romania
By Iulia Hau Dobrogea, the Romanian region placed in the vicinity of the Black Sea, is often overlooked by locals and rarely visited by foreign…
Fragmented Mythologies: A Guatemalan Tale
By Benjamin Clabault Lying awake in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, my wife’s body tucked against my side, I suffered a horrible confrontation with what Albert Camus…
Prešeren’s Path: Lost Journal, Found Journey
By Thom Brown Sitting and sweating by an anonymous statue, I was alone yet liberated in the enchanting Slovenian capital. Ljubljana promised to be a…
Oxford’s 2nd Renaissance
By Larry Wells From Wells’ remarks at a panel at the 2021 Virtual Mississippi Book Festival in a panel discussion moderated by John T. Edge…