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…
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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…
The Defiant Spirit of Spinalonga, an Island of Exiles
by Inka Piegsa-Quischotte Some of the most compelling images of Victoria Hislop’s book The Island are to be found in the opening paragraphs. She evokes…
On the Bolivian Trail of Che Guevara, a Literary Guerilla
by Stephen Eisenhammer The dust lay smooth. No vehicle had passed in over an hour, as I sat gazing at the grainy pages in my…
Sabil of Naguib Mahfouz in Cairo, Egypt
by Robin Graham I dreamt of my mentor, Shaykh Mustafa Abd al-Raziq when he was the head of al-Azhar. As he entered the main office,…
Peruvian Amazon Ayahuasca’s Influence on Great Writers
by Kelly Jean Egan My second to last night in the jungle finds me in the passenger seat of a ramshackle vehicle driving to the…
Mr Biswas’ Houses: Finding V.S. Naipaul in Trinidad
by Philip Cartelli From an airplane window, Trinidad initially appears as a dense green forest rising over the turquoise Caribbean Sea. Beyond the Northern Range…
Interview with Jerry Sutphin, Expert Aboard the Delta Queen Steamboat
by Jennifer Ciotta Gerald W. Sutphin has taken his passion of steam boating to an incredible level. Involved in a variety of river projects since…
A Historical Account Aboard the Delta Queen
By Jerry Sutphin Early one evening in the fall of 1996 I received an unexpected telephone call from David Snow, Special Programs Director for the…
The “Easy” Yet Complex Writing of Walter Mosley, A Black Jewish Author
by Mallory Sweeney Although often pictured sporting his signature cocked, off-white fedora, Walter Mosley proves through his writing that he is certainly capable of wearing…