There’s something so uniquely revelatory about an old map. Apart from literature or song, a map is an incredible combination…
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This weekend I happened to catch a PBS news story about the demolition of a mansion on Long Island’s famed…
I’m about as far away as you can get from being a Catholic. I have deep objections to all of…
Long before The Shining and 2001: A Space Odyssey (the greatest movie ever made by-the-way) Stanley Kubrick was just a…
The Atlantic never ceases to impress me. Their selection of stories and their angle of representation strikes the strongest chord…
I’m anxiously waiting for Werner Herzog’s next documentary The Cave Of Forgotten Dreams to be released. From all accounts it’s…
Say what you will about Wikipedia, it’s one of the most brilliant off-shoots of the internet age. I use it…