On the road to Mandalay
Ngapali, on the Bay of Bengal, is pronounced ‘Napoli’ and is said to be Burma’s answer to Naples
Paywall
Thursday
Wednesday
Mostly ghostly: Henry James haunts Bly Manor
If you’re hoping for a show that requires your blanket be used to cover your eyes, skip this one
Tuesday
The Ryan Gattis guide to Lynwood
A virtual visit in the author’s beloved Los Angeles
Monday
Old fashioned values
Life lessons on ice
Sunday
Libertarians suck
They helped elect the very illiberal Joe Biden
A tinpot Caesar
Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch reviewed
Monday
The urgent case for voting reform
It is obvious that mass mail-in voting and days of drawn-out counting maximize opportunities for chicanery
Sunday
Wines of turkey
Some bottles to be thankful for
Porgy and best
How the porgy became my preferred piscine
Saturday
Is Billie Eilish really in shock over James Bond?
‘Shock’, from the French ‘choque’, began as the word for a collision of armies
Game birds
Try Cornish hens for Thanksgiving
Friday
The trouble with America’s ‘systemic racism’
The United States has been no more racist, unequal and oppressive than most racially pluralist countries
Thursday
The next American empire
After the blowout, the blowback
Wednesday
Culture and anarchy
Félix Fénéon, terrorist and connoisseur
Homes, sweet homes
A few years ago, for reasons I can’t recall, I acquired a donkey hut in the Molise
The author in full: Tom Wolfe
Wolfe excelled at capturing human foibles and petty vanities; anything deeper than that escaped him
Tuesday
The wars go on
Seventy-five years after the end of World War Two we still have forces in Britain, Japan, Germany and Italy
Monday
From Cool to Cringe: what’s happened to American culture?
What’s happened to American culture?
Monuments and memorials in Maryland
For about a dozen square blocks in its center, 18th-century Easton is as European-looking as any small town in the United States
Sunday
Prussian blues
It took me 30 years of traveling to learn that my Heimat is Prussia
