Eldorado

Every museum partakes of our ambivalence toward Eldorado, the kingdom of gold

Art museums and geographical exp

Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel is the award-winning author of hundreds of works, most recently (in English) Fabulous Monsters, Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions, Curiosity and All Men Are Liars. He lives in New York. Read more of his work at manguel.com.

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Reviews

Patty Osborne

From Russia With Love

Review of "Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea" by Teffi (trans. Robert Chandler).

Reviews

Helen Godolphin

ON Piracy (And petrified oranges)

Review of "Our Flag Means Death" created by David Jenkins on HBO Max.

Dispatches

J.R. Patterson

True at First Flight

The unmistakable buzz of an approaching aircraft is enough to send my family onto the lawn

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