It’s only been a few hours since two protestors threw soup at the glass enclosure around Mona Lisa — but already someone posted this carto...

W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) was a novelist and literary scholar at the University of East Anglia in Britain. He was born in Bavaria, and wrote i...

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2023   Science fiction isn’t usually part of my reading, but I try it occasionally: I read the st...

Zadie Smith: The Fraud Genteel British society in the 19th century is at the center of a wide variety of fiction. Many famous authors at the...

A mural inside the visitor center of CATIE. (Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza) CATIE is a research and educational in...

  Sarah Caudwell's fourth novel in the Hillary Tamar series, The Sibyl in her Grave , is an amusing and rather arch British mystery, ver...

Chris van Tulleken: Ultra-Processed People (Published June, 2023) Reading this book was a very fascinating experience, and very different fr...

  While traveling earlier this month, and since I returned, I read three highly enjoyable mystery stories. During this time, I was busy docu...

  I haven’t posted any Mona Lisas for a while. Several friends (and I thank them very much) sent me the Mona Lisa Wolverines fan image. My f...

  Our return from Costa Rica was one week ago today. In the week since then I’ve been catching up on documenting this wonderful birding trip...

Diet Coke, of course! We also drank  lots of fresh fruit juice. We saw ads for Imperial Beer everywhere! Here shown with two of the ever-pre...