Reviews
From the Archives: Marina Warner’s Stranger Magic (aka Fairy Tales, Pt. 3)
While I was checking the archives to be sure that I hadn’t previously written about Antoine Galland’s Thousand and One Nights, I ran across this review from 2012, which led me to pull Stranger Magic off the shelves and dive in. *** I’m fascinated by the Arabian Nights. By the stories themselves and the way they…
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From the Archives: The Nile
It is inevitable, at some point after I’ve returned from a trip I run out of blog-post steam. The notes I have made for myself about future posts no longer fire my imagination, or I don’t have enough information to turn them into stories.[1] Before I give up and move on to the other stories…
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Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
For several months now, Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Eric Larson has been my traveling book—the one I read on airplanes and city buses. I recently finished it on the last leg of a trip. And I have thoughts. Isaac’s Storm tells the story of the hurricane…
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