Travels with Herodotus
Kapuscinksi uses his love for the Roman historian to filter the follies of contemporary upheavals and civil wars.
From My Mother’s Sleep
The air force man lived alone in a mossy apartment that smelled of the aging miscellany of unkempt fruit.
Miner
Imagine a Polish pope wearing a miner's hardhat. But no, popes don't do that. Can't happen.
The Skim
In Rome, irresponsibility and opportunism are interchangeable.
Awesome America
To appreciate America’s self-involved gusto — its “great hugeness,” as Jack Kerouac once put it — means accepting ruined attention span.
Lesson 1
From the moment she walked in, Carla had us transfixed with her glamorous clothes.
Devils in paradise
Except for Tim Parks and pure travel literature, you'd be surprised at how cliché persists.
Da sola
My waiter is concerned by my solitude and hovers over me anxiously.
Legends of the fall
Walk into any restaurant in October and you see chefs and patrons adjusting to autumn's harvest.
Post-proposal issues
Men may bring home the bread in this family, but the women run the show.
The Better Butter
If eating forearm-length strips of pure white pig fat sounds like bad, think again.