Karl Marx’s Revolutionary Brussels
by Steven Hermans I walk the cold deserted streets of Brussels on the 1st of November. The sun rises in front of me over a…
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Anne Frank’s Lasting Literary Impact
by Hannah May If I just think of how we live here, I usually come to the conclusion that it is a paradise compared with…
Jim Morrison & Lipstick Kisses at Oscar Wilde’s Pere-Lachaise
by Kevin E.G. Perry “They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.” ~ Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance” Oscar…
Origins of Crime & Justice in James Patterson’s Washington DC
by David Silon While walking around our nation’s capital, I often wondered about its story. When I ask the average American what comes to mind…
Death & Life on the Nile, Agatha Christie’s Egypt
by Veronica Hackethal “Gosh, a funeral procession,” exclaims a fellow passenger, with typical English understatement. He points dockside where a wedding procession had passed minutes…
Agatha Christie’s Torquay
by DJ Coode Throughout her long life, one place in particular remained close to Agatha Christie’s heart. Tucked away in the southwest corner of England…
Winston Churchill’s Poetic Speeches of World War II
by Paul Millward In 1940, from deep beneath the buildings of Whitehall in London, in an underground complex known as the Cabinet War Rooms, Winston…
The Fear of Stephen King and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
by Francis McGovern The fear was mine, and the goal of this trip was to face it and honor it, by driving from Fenway Park…
A Meeting of Minds: John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts at the Lab in Monterey
by Victor A. Walsh In the gray light of early morning, the weathered, batten board building stands like a phantom from an earlier time when…
Journeying to the Wilderness of Iceland With Jules Verne
by Jacquelin Cangro As we wind around inlets and coves along the Snaefellsnes Peninsula in western Iceland, I grip the armrest harder. Our destination is…