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Up on Diamond Hill, the British Second World War pillbox looks like one of Enver Hoxha's frontier bunkers, a dome of pre-stressed concrete with rectangular gun slits, the last remnant of Britain's imperial disaster in Hong...
Now that I am more kindly disposed toward The Paris Review—the literary institution founded by George Plimpton and a cohort of his pals back in the wild and crazy 1950s—since they have dropped the hyperbolic “DNA of literature”...
Prosecutor Çavuşoğlu from the Istanbul 10th High Criminal Court pleaded for the acquittal of publisher Zarakolu and writer Güler. The defendants were facing prison sentences under allegations of "spreading PKK propaganda" on...
Here’s the fortieth installment of LiteratEye, a series found only on The Art of the Prank Blog, by W.J. Elvin III, editor and publisher of FIONA: Mysteries & Curiosities of Literary Fraud & Folly and the LitFraud blog....
Consultant Hopes To Rebrand Near West Suburb's Tourism Image OAK PARK, Ill. (Sun-Times Media Wire) ― Ernest Hemingway's childhood home is one of the attractions that brings tourists to Oak Park. Ed Barlow, director of client...
The star of Stephen Poliakoff's forthcoming Glorious 39 on his neuroses, playing educated toffs and why he digs David Hare "A machiavellian dandy . . . Pure coldheartedness . . . Fabulously insincere." As I read out reviews of...
Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, best known for chronicling the rich in The Great Gatsby, supposedly said to Ernest Hemingway, “The rich are different than you and me.” To which Hemingway reportedly quipped, “Yes, they have more...
By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters Life!) - Paris, whose wild nightlife drew generations of party goers from Ernest Hemingway to Jim Morrison, is now more notorious for curfews than carousing. Dismayed nightcrawlers say...
Key West Vacations Can Take a Spooky Turn in a Number of Hotels While the famous Ghost Tours in Key West, FL, are enough to scare some tourists, others like to test their luck further by staying in one of the city's haunted...
Peter Elson reports. Hence the most famous three words in mountaineering occurring when George Leigh Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest? The biggest query of all is whether Mallory, from Mobberley, Cheshire,...
