Spain’s literature ranks among some of the best in the West, but apart from Don Quixote, is vastly underappreciated among Anglophones. The below five books represent the major literary traditions in Spain and are well …
Last year, as you might recall, I went to a strip club in Mumbai. Ok, there was no stripping per se, and the girls showed less skin than a bride at an Amish wedding, but it …
Chernobyl has been getting a lot of attention lately after HBO’s excellent miniseries on the 1986 disaster that occurred here. (If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend that you take a look.) During the …
One of the most beautiful buildings in Bari is undoubtedly the Palazzo dell’Acquedotto (Palace of the Aqueduct). It’s rather unassuming façade masks a nearly unaltered interior entirely decorated in what the Italians call Stile Liberty, …