Ah, Paris of the 1920s
"The Golden Moments of Paris: A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s" Museyon Guides, $19.95 Paris, especially the Paris between the two world wars, continues to resonate with many...
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Travel books: Tracking the origins of English
"Wordsmiths & Warriors: The English-Language Tourist's Guide to Britain" Oxford University Press, $24.95 The English language is a strange and maddening thing, full of inconsistencies and so many spelling exceptions...
Travel books: Tracking the origins of English
"Wordsmiths & Warriors: The English-Language Tourist's Guide to Britain" Oxford University Press, $24.95 The English language is a strange and maddening thing, full of inconsistencies and so many spelling exceptions...
Music City also has one heck of a bookstore
This may be known as Music City, but it also has one heck of an independent bookstore. The main reason is Ann Patchett, the best-selling novelist of "Bel Canto" and...
Music City also has one heck of a bookstore
This may be known as Music City, but it also has one heck of an independent bookstore. The main reason is Ann Patchett, the best-selling novelist of "Bel Canto" and...
A world view on drinking
"The Wet and the Dry: A Drinker's Journey" Crown, $25 Novelist and journalist Lawrence Osborne is a veteran traveler and a veteran drinker. In this entertaining travel essay/memoir, he combines...
A world view on drinking
"The Wet and the Dry: A Drinker's Journey" Crown, $25 Novelist and journalist Lawrence Osborne is a veteran traveler and a veteran drinker. In this entertaining travel essay/memoir, he combines...
The emerging art cities
New travel books: Metronome: A History of Paris from the Underground Up" playfully looks at history through city subway stops. "Art Cities of the Future: 21st Century Avant-Gardes" looks at...
The emerging art cities
New travel books: Metronome: A History of Paris from the Underground Up" playfully looks at history through city subway stops. "Art Cities of the Future: 21st Century Avant-Gardes" looks at...
Travel books: New York’s storytelling murals
"Murals of New York City: The Best of New York's Public Paintings from Bemelmans to Parrish" (Rizzoli, $45) "In their purest form, murals have the ability to tell stories," writes...