Another Day of Life
Waiting out the 1975 Angolan civil war is, for Kapuscinksi, an excuse for some stunningly beautiful character studies.
Samuel Johnson is Indignant
Davis successfully flirts with the outer fringes of prose limits in this wildly creative collection of stories.
Casablanca
A wife says: "I came the office but you were not there, so I took a walk, alone…"
Spaculation
"Sinically depressed" are the hardest to understand when you're not one.
Leopardi clean
With your Rome roommate, there's clean and then there's Leopardi clean.
Comedy Central
Offer pork chops to a whirlwind and you get… a whirlwind.
Supersized revolutions
Eating defines a nation’s identity far more than other single activity.
How We Are Hungry
The "we" is Dave Eggers, and he's hungry to make up fables and myths to then study them vividly.
Olympic Blues
The pre-Winter Olympics have tripped over a damning word: Indifference. Why, some ask, doesn’t Italy seem to care? After all, it sought the Games. Those seeking an answer among the 10,000-strong media corps now housed Turin might want to examine three telling categories.
The City of Falling Angels
Berendt doesn't always get to the bottom of Venice, but his exploration is vivid, and sometimes charmed.
Calling Lega Nord
Where's Lega Nord, the breast-beating, torch bearers of northern superiority, when they're needed?