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LATEST ARTICLES ( 100 )

• Meet the Muscovites: A Review of “My Perestroika”

  

  By Kelly Raftery In my lifetime there have been enormous sweeps of history, most notably the Collapse of the Soviet Union, which I wrote about in a previous... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Bleeding Rouge: A Lesson in History

  

  By Supriya Savkoor There are novels that take you to a fictional world you feel you’ve been to, with fictional characters whom you feel you know personally, eve... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Portable Exhibit: Review of Steve McCurry's "Portraits" for iPad

  

  By Beth Green The best art exhibition I’ve seen recently fits in my travel purse. A photo collage tribute to McCurry's "Afghan Girl" by Flickr user... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Kemal Kayankaya—Frankfurt’s Wise-Cracking Turkish-German Detective

  

  By Heidi Noroozy In the 1960s, with economic recovery from the devastation of World War II well underway, West Germany found itself with a booming economy and... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Off The Beaten Track: The Northernmost Town in Iceland

  

  Photo by Omar Oskarsson Our guest this week, Ragnar Jónasson, is an Icelandic writer of crime novels set in and around the northernmost town of Iceland,... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• From Head to Head

  

  p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } By Patricia Winton One of the interesting minor facets of Italian life is watching the diverse hats and caps worn by members... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Georgian Folk Costumes

  

  Below are historical drawings of Georgian folk costumes (with hats) grouped by ethnicity, region and class, followed by current versions of folk costumes from... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• In a Bind

  

  Skull of a young Alan woman. Photo by Rama. By Alli Sinclair Billions of dollars, perhaps trillions, are spent every year on hair products and styling. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Nigerian Gele Fashion

  

  By Jenni Gate In Nigeria, women’s fashion has included the gele, or head wrap, for at least 400 years, and most likely longer. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Off the Beaten Track: The Road to Cremona

  

  Our guest today is Judy Hudson, a writer/ photographer who lives on Vancouver Island. Today, she’s writing about Cremona, Italy, which holds a special place in... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turan, Goddess of Love

  

  By Patricia Winton Picture a young fifth century BC woman in Volterra or Saturnia or another Etruscan town in what has become Italy. She gazes at her... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Tevodas, Rakshasas, and Other Cambodian Lore

  

  By Supriya Savkoor A couple of months ago, my book club chose to read a novel that I hadn’t yet heard of—In the Shadow of the Banyan, by Cambodian-American... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Who You Are and Where You Live

  by Kelly Raftery One of my fellow bloggers posed the following series of questions: “But even after reading your post, I’m still puzzled as far as why these kid... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Anahita—The Water Goddess

  

  By Heidi Noroozy Anahita Temple, Kangavar, IranPhoto by Ali Matin (CC BY-SA 3.0) Outside the city of Kangavar in western Iran, a brick wall stretches along the... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Chechen in Kyrgyzstan is Not Kyrgyz

  

  By Kelly Raftery First off, let me say I mourn deeply for the victims of the Boston tragedy. One of the three fatalities was a little boy exactly the same age a... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Off The Beaten Track: Kate Belle

  

  Kate lives, writes and loves in Melbourne, Australia. She juggles her strange, secret affairs with her male characters with her much loved partner and... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Making It Their Own Kyrgyz Pop Culture

  By Kelly Raftery When I lived in the former Soviet Union a lifetime ago, I was always stressing to people that the Collapse offered a unique opportunity for... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Telenovelas, Sortilegio and William Levy

  

  By Edith McClintock I like my entertainment soapy—romance, drama, intrigue!—as does much of the world. I figure this is a good thing. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Living a Life Down Under: Men at Work

  

  By Alli Sinclair Warning, an earworm is about to attack: Living in a land down under Where women glow and men plunder Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Joyful Noise: Pop Culture in Africa

  

  By Jenni Gate From some of the least hopeful places on the planet comes some of the most hopeful music. Throughout Africa, the trend in pop culture is for... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL