Bookish Beaufort
By Suzanne Kamata The first cannonball shot of the American Civil War may have been fired from Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, but the…
Category: Travel
Chasing the Northern Lights: Driving Iceland’s Ring Road (with Gísli the Outlaw)
by Laima Vince Having reached an age where I am no longer needed by anyone, I am free to take to the open road. I…
Falling for New Hampshire: Oktoberfest at Purity Spring Resort
by Francis and Linda McGovern Are you one of the people that loves fall and can’t wait for it to begin? Do you want to…
Mexico City Muse
By Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera My literary idols brought me to Mexico City last month. While D.F. (short for “Distrito Federal” in Spanish) has always intrigued me,…
Ghosts, Memories and Lobster Rolls: A Visit to Block Island and the Past.
By Billy Finn We drove about three hours north from New York City, fighting traffic the whole way. It was a humid, cloud-choked morning in…
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…
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…
My Great New England Train Adventure
By Zeenath Khan Friends and family met my decision to travel to Vermont from Manhattan with various degrees of incredulity. ‘How can you stand the…